It’s still unclear to me what, if any, relationship exists between “the discontinued Blackwing engine” and rumors of a flat plane crank OHC V-8 for the upcoming C8 Z06.

I guess baby steps, first accept, Jews, Blacks, Asians, then LGBTQs, then perhaps the “rest of us”?

I agree with almost all of what you posted. Kill Vauxhall, Opel, and Lancia. Abarth should be folded back into Fiat but “Fiat reliability” has been a 50 years long joke in the USA, and the same for Alfa.

Fiat was a an unreliable thing in the 70 and 80's.

So many of the comments here are “just, like, your opinion, man”. The instrument panel in my ‘13 Sonic hatch is like nothing I’d ever seen before so it’s refreshingly different. I’d describe the clutch and gearbox as “adequate”. That shade of yellow is lighter than I’d like but better than my oh so boring silver…

I had two absolute requirements for a new DD in 2012 – it had to be a hatchback and a stick shift. It came down to Sonic vs. GTI. I could apply more than $3000 of GM credit card bonus cash, so I was looking at $25K for the GTI with its reputation for questionable reliability vs. $16K for the Chevy. I saw the Sonic as…

Is there a huge Chevy Sonic RS owners club whose members refuse to compromise for anything else that I’m not aware of

Walk up to the car, push the button on the handle and it unlocks.

I bought my first microwave oven in 1978. At the time it was the top of the line from GE and retailed for $500, but my parents both worked for General Electric so my mom purchased it for me under her name to get the employee discount and I only paid $380. At some point I had to pull the cover off and saw that…

The incoming President being a car guy who owns a big-block C2 Corvette convertible

I’ll add that back in 1980-ish driving my first ever winter beater car, a 1967 Firebird with its original Muncie 4-speed and the ‘65 Chevy 230 inline-six I swapped in, I remember thinking while cruising on I-271 in Greater Cleveland what a smooth, well behaved, and good driving car I had. Being young and easy to…

My wife’s 2010 Honda Fit Sport had a conventional five speed automatic. When we decided to replace it with a 2016 Fit EX, it was our first experience with a CVT. I drove a demo vehicle briefly on the freeway. It was rather buzzy if you wanted to accelerate quickly from 55 to 70 MPH, but the CVT is Just Fine for…

Google “dysphagia”. One of the side effects of dementia is that the brain eventually loses control of normal muscular functions like making sure food and water goes to the stomach rather than into the lungs. In the last months of her life my mother had to be fed “thickened” food and drink.

I guess the old saying a GM car will drive poorly longer than most cars will last is true.

In the four months leading up to when I rage-traded it in for an Acura, I had to miss work 19 times to go to the dealership instead.

By 2007 Honda had fixed the problems with their five speed automatic. Beige doesn’t show the dirt but it does show winter salt stains.

I thought the story was that Donnie Two Scoops refused to use the same toilet that Barack used.

My first Japanese car (1986 MR2 purchased in 1997 2000 Civic CX hatchback purchased in 2004) showed me that my previous love and evangelism of the quality and caliber of Volkswagens GM cars was based on ignorance and stupidity.

Back in 2000, I was 45 years old and being child-free did not want to appear as “Somebody having produced spawn and surrendering to minivan ownership” when I bought my first FWD minivan, but now that I am 65 Y.O. I have fully embraced my ownership of a Very Beige 2007 Honda Odyssey, our third vehicle of four, cur…

Upon further reflection, I should have noted, “Spread bore vs. square bore”. I was always a spread bore fan, as small primaries with more precise metering for cruising and big secondaries for performance makes intuitive sense to me, as it did to the engineers at Rochester Division.