I say keep the Chum Bucket as the project to learn on and go with the Mazda.

I tried on two generations of Fits and found the seats would not be up to a long drive.

The insurance on my Z06 is cheaper than that for my wife’s 2016 Honda Fit. My agent explained that the newer cars with crumple zones designed to self-destruct to protect the humans are more readily totaled in a collision.

Hard disagree with you there

Thank you for your reply. I aspire to be at least as Green as the next guy, but it is mindlessly short-sighted to design a wiring harness which is expected to become non-functional after 10 or 15 or 20 years. Greenwashing is the worst of corporate malfeasance.

We’re now in a world where wiring harnesses are falling apart after less than a decade

Thank you, this is valuable information for the Jalopnik community. Still, when you say, “14+: 100% just a BMW now” that still raises red flags for reliability and cost of repairs.

Interesting. I knew someone who had a relatively early “New Mini”. His needed a new transmission at 75K and he was told, “That’s not uncommon”. I knew someone else who had one and sold it to buy a Veloster before his Mini became a money pit. To me, the fact that they are cheap now used says “Quickly depreciating used G…

Rear seat access is irrelevant if you are child-free and rarely or never need to carry more than one passenger.

The 2 door hatchback makes 0 sense, especially if you are making a 4 door of the same vehicle...Even if you never have rear seat passengers, it is immensely easier to load and unload that rear area with a separate door.

Mini Cooper

I am always looking at a possible replacement (if I must due to my DD being T-boned) for my ‘13 Chevy Sonic hatch stick. The Elantra GT hatchback is no more in 2021. Give me a hatchback with three pedals and an upscale interior...That is becoming a unicorn in the USA in 2021.

“Swapping out incandescent bulbs for LEDs in reverse lights” - This is something I am still pursuing on several of our vehicles. I’ve bought some no-name Chinese replacements on eBay for #921 incandescents which failed 6 to 12 months after purchase...I am still looking for reliable substitutes.

You are entitled to your own opinion, even though it is wrong.

“IF you know the exact item you’re looking for, i.e. the model number, it’s very easy to find on Amazon eBay.” FTFY.

Up to eight years in prison for a black woman knocking on a door, and a slap on the wrist for white MAGAts smashing their way into the Capitol building? Now, that’s some (in)justice USA style.

Passover isn’t any more “weird” than celebrating someone rising from the dead

Note that I said, “If it has a steel B-pillar extending from floor to roof, it’s a sedan.” Now think about a four-door hardtop from the 1960s. There is a truncated B-pillar, because you need somewhere to mount the striker to latch the front door, and a place to attach the hinges for the rear door. If you crank…

Thanks, I was going to reply like codfangler: “I don’t see a first-gen Corvair in that picture.”

If it has a steel B-pillar extending from floor to roof, it’s a sedan. Most sedans have four doors but I have owned a two door sedan. For many decades, if there was no floor to roof steel B-pillar, it was called a hardtop. These were popular in both four- and two-door bodies. So yes, my two door sedan was also a…