Passive or active.  I think I would have pulled into the dealer, opened the door and walked off.  

The interior is so cheerful, I love it.  I really do think I would enjoy having this car except for two things, it literally can't go the speed limit on the freeway here, and that is a lot of money for what it is.

Your tail braking on entry to assist turn in, not through the whole corner. Because you are braking later into the corner you can also start braking at a later point. Because you start braking later and the car can turn better with the weight on the front wheels you are actually able to carry more speed up until the…

This is pretty much my technique for hustling a fwd car around an autocross fast. The people who say fwd cars always understeer don’t get trail braking. I still use it to an extent on my rwd MGB.  Dragging the brakes it feels almost like it sucks the front end toward the inside of the corner when done properly

I dont get why they didn’t replace it with the atlas family back when that was going on. Its the stopgap engine that just wont die.

I think its just a matter of what you want, or how much of a car person you are. This model makes no sense for a lot of us, I am one that likes to hold onto vehicles for a long time and does their own maintenance.  When I cant trust a car to go a couple hundred miles or the parts bill starts to get to high I get a…

Getting people to wait on the engine mods until the chassis is dialed in is tough. Often they do something that puts them in a higher class without making them much faster. With my MGB I have tons of people commenting on how much torque my swapped engine must make because it gets out of the corners so quick but it’s…

I wonder if the person who had the original debt was hiding the vehicle somewhere. My brother in law works for a bank dealing with loans in default and people do crazy stuff to prevent the bank from getting a car they haven’t made payments on. They may hide them or even go to the extent of burying cars or destroying…

Honestly Bugatti historically competed against the high tech German entries, to me the new Bugattis seem more like the auto unions that pushed them and Alfa off the podium. I have no problem at this point them doingSUV’s, they have engineered the nuance, finiky nature and fragility out of the make that brought us some…

From doing drivers Ed, some people legitimately should not drive who can perform the tests we have. It’s 4-6 weeks long with something like 6 hours of driving with parents holding their hands and trying like heck to intimidate the teacher so they don’t have to drive the kids everywhere. As an instructor I didn’t feel…

Honestly I was thinking a picture of any crossover for use as a car, so I am on a similar wavelength.

I think there would have been. Honestly I have heard people gripe about hydraulic throwout bearing clutches having not feel growing up. Internet in the 60s probably would have been people complaining about power steering on 5000 pound land barges. I bet there were people in the 30s opposed to hydraulic brakes on all…

I guess it depends on what you want. The Viper and Corvette always get knocked by reviewers for the interior materials, but then the last generation Viper went for a more upmarket interior, I am not sure they achieved it, and didn’t sell as well as expected. Maybe the people who buy them embrace this shortcoming, or…

It’s a different kind of hoarding.  From driving around rural Eastern Montana it seems like every farmer tows thier dead cars to a specific plot of unfertile soil for them to return to the Earth for wence thier raw materials came.

He probably just understands lift off oversteer.

Honestly I think pretty much any manual these days has some sort of hill start assist. My sample size is the base Fiesta and Honda Civic but the Fiesta was spartan enough to have manual windows, the sticker listed floor mats as a feature and it had Hill Start Assist.  My civic with a manual has it and even with it…

I am opposite.  I grew up driving old cars that if you used the parking brake in cold weather it might not release but the electronic parking brake in my Civic I use it all the time.  Probably because that 1.5 engine brakes about as well as...  well it doesn’t really at all despite the manual transmission.

I want to give this a chance, but this looks like a nightmare to find parts for and you have to explain to car guys what it is.  I would love to own a lotus, but not the only fwd one. I feel that puts you adjacent to the guy who owns a 4 cylinder 80s Camaro who talks about how rare it is.  

I feel less bad about what happened to Saab during the recession after seeing this.  I think people have gone before tribunals for worse things than making a car like that fwd.

I remember in an article in Mopar action years ago had an article about a car that has been converted. The kit didn’t do much and it sounded like you basically cut the car in half lengthwise to convert the car. I have always wanted to build a tube chassis rwd Aries myself and bolt the body panels on like a stock car. …