Still a crosstour.

Manual gearbox is standard in the US.

The only engine noise you need is a little hum, some turbo whistle and a bypass valve. I'd be fine with that.

WHY?

I know I'm probably alone on this one, but in my world C5>C6. Something just never clicked for me with the C6. Though I'd take a C7 in a heartbeat!

The last of the C3 made up for that a little. I love the look on the 80-82 C3, even if they were total utter weak sauce.

When I first read "Crazy Rare 3000GT" I was expecting this.

It's like they had to add English electrical unreliability to a Ford Escape. Even trying to find customers the parts for them is a nightmare. It's one of those cars when they say they have a Freelander, I respond "I'm sorry".

I'm not sure where this 100,000-mile fear came from, but it's certainly a commonly-held belief among virtually everyone from the Baby Boomer era. "Why would you want THAT car?" they'll ask, revolted, as if they've just bitten into a sandwich that tastes like envelope glue. "THAT car has more than 100,000 miles on it.…

The whole cash-or-financing thing depends on the car I want to buy. I've purchased two daily driven cars by "financing". The first was probably the cheapest cost of ownership for a new car I ever had.. A new Oldsmobile at the end of 2004. Paid 10,300 off the lot with 83 miles on it, sold it 8 years later for 3500.…

Doesn't this Fisker story seem like Deja Vu. How well is this program working for Saab? I'd love to see it succeed on both counts, it just doesn't seem probable.

The hydraulic steering had much better steering feel. The 2008-12 V6 Malibus had hydraulic steering as well. All the current generation are electric assist.

It wasn't a head turner, but it was a fairly solid car. The SS was the one to have because among other things, it had hydraulically assisted power steering instead of the failure-prone electric assist.

The worst experience I had with this is when the dealer installed one of these on my dad's Envoy when it was in for service at the dealer, where it wasn't purchased! I immediately noticed it, since they're flimsy plastic I just snapped it off and left it there before I drove away.

FWIW: the MAXX has a longer wheelbase than the sedan.

The corsica wasn't particularly bad looking, just boring. The hatch is just a WTF moment though. Still not as bad as the crosstour.

Wouldn't this technically be the Mazda6 hatch? I actually liked this body style the best.

I hope that's the genesis of his drifting career..

I still give a friend of mine crap for blowing the axle out of my car at the track back in 2008. It was all well and good because I had a way to get it 300 miles home with little inconvenience other than picking up some CV shaft parts off the track. Truth be told, was probably doomed anyways.

Well, if that decal on the rear bumper is any indication, it has 512HP and 383 ft-lb. Certainly no slouch.