And a tiny bed is exactly what its (and the Ridgeline’s) very specific target audience wants. These are not traditional work trucks (duh!). These are lifestyle trucks for the weekend warriors. They don’t need a full-size bed for lumber. They need a small bed for bags of mulch, the kids’ bicycles, bags of groceries and…

As if anyone turns their head to look anymore.

No MS3, but there is Skyactiv-X with mild electrification. 2.5L power with fuel economy of 1.5L (approximately, since no actual figures have been released).

And watch quality and reliability drop like a stone?

Low price.

This generation of Jalopnik doesn’t care. All they care is that you clicked.

But. But. He’s a published “journalist” and TV personality. /s

So stop trying to make it as clean and efficient as it can possibly? What kind of stupid logic is that?

A quick Google search would reveal what ICE is not dead and has at least another 30 years as the primary from of automotive propulsion. If it’s going to be around for more than 30 years, why is it wrong to strive to make it as efficient as possible?

Stop this visibility nonsense. This is such an outdated notion about safe driving... about the same as the notion that speed kills. With proper mirror size/design along with radar (blind spot monitoring systems) there is little need to turn one’s head to look.

No. The electric assist is to smooth transition from normal spark ignition and spark assisted compression ignition.

We need to stop worshiping/following celebrities. Period.

This guy gets to post while I’m grayed out after 10+ years? The “new” Jalop staff are a bunch of hipster snowflakes.

That’s it. We need a Maximum Overdrive remake.

I am not even sure why I still watch this show. #smh

Right? Dr. Panoz himself is an accomplished man, but for all the financial success he’s had, it blows my mind that he never hired an automotive designer who actually could help them put out cars that didn’t look it was penned by a schoolboy.

Mazda6 Signature. CX-5 Signature w/2.5T (2019). Or, the next gen Mazda3 with Skyactiv-X (to be unveiled this month at LAAS).

I doubt it. The pick up truck bits (previous generation) have been available in kit form from Jeep for sometime. SUVs and trucks are selling while passenger cars are not and FCA isn’t blind to this; neither is the majority of the auto industry. 

Reality check #1: Majority (if not all) of the problems are attributed to the cars produced when Ford had majority stake in Mazda, and when Mazda had to use Ford’s platforms and components.

Less cringey than the “real people” Chevy ads. Honestly, any ad targeting young women are more often than not cringey.