These days, a "spartan" interior might be the most luxurious thing of all. My whole life is cluttered with emails, touch screens, voice mails, texts, other screens, voice activated nonsense that doesn't like my accent, etc. Screw that noise.

I have no problems with this. It's handsome without trying to hard, and I see the potential for a very beautiful design language, one that is very distinct from Audi, to evolve from it. I find this interesting.

I noticed it too.

My vote:

I think there are several reasons at play here. First off, there is the simple heritage argument. One look at Saab's history should explain the love of Saab's awkward little hatchbacks. They were amongst the first, and they offered them not alongside sedans, but in place of them. And Saab still sold wagon variants,…

That's a gorgeous blog that you have there.

I'm surprised that he made such a blanket statement when there's so many multinational elements at work here. US doesn't have competitive designs? Many mass market cars sold in the US by major American companies are globally sourced, and not just by people who's only worked for mass market brands. Many European…

First they came for the Escort XR3i, and I didn't speak out because I didn't like Escorts.

"both ends of the Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon were built for hauling".

Hear hear!

We had one come in the shop. No badges. Guys were working on some sort of OnStar type service. Looked really good though.

I think they fixed the problem just right. The A4 sells, the A6s sells, they all sell. The A3 was a pretty up market small car. And as cliche as it is, who wants to spend $35k (avg a3 cost), pull up to their new gf or girl they want to impress, or coworker, or whoever, and say "now look at this thing!". It just didn't…

This is weird. I just stumbled upon this set last week and posted one on my tumblr. ( chauffeuse.tumblr.com ) I found it completely hilarious and ridiculous as well. Where have these pictures been hiding all the years??

I'm really not a fan of the spindly-spoke wheels on big luxury cars. I much prefer the big sheer Mt. Everest-face of this style, whatever the name is. So much more presence.