Maybe if J-body Pontiac Sunfires and Chevy cavaliers get popular with nostalgic Millennials? I dunno.

Alas, no. They *will* sell you the 2.0T inline-four out of a Cadillac ATS. I’m not entirely sure why. Or who would buy it for $7k.

It really matters what your parking situation is. More Europeans live in urban areas, where they won’t have a driveway or a garage to park in.

Yeah, this. The 1st version is in the pantheon of great automotive designs. Gen 2 and 3? Not so much.

Hey now. The 500e is better to drive than any of the gas versions of the 500. It’s even faster 0-30 than the Abarth. The range is low, but in all other respects it didn’t seem like weak execution.

China has their share of religious crazies, but they don’t let them run the government like Americans do.

America has among the largest disconnects of any nation between the race, class, and religion of its people vs. that of its Congress.

The companies developing autonomous cars perceive it as a “winner take all” business - whoever gets to a licensable Level 5 system first will have a massive advantage, with a network-effect. Car manufacturers will have to buy the best software system, and the mechanical systems of the car will rapidly become a…

Could be because the RC’s V-6 and V-8 are not going to survive emissions standards over the next five years. There might also be issues with crash testing - the current RC borrows a front structure from the last-gen GS sedan, so it’s not optimized for the latest NCAP front-offset crash tests.

Needs more biscuit-tucked velour interior to be a Cressida:

I saw this thing at Pebble Beach and I agree that the chrome is fussy. But when you see the car in real life, it’s positioned pretty low down, so it’s not as glaringly obvious as it looks in these pictures.

You’re right. For ‘19 the base GTI gets the horsepower increase, the limited-slip diff, and the big brakes.

When I first started working I had a Miata as my only car. I was surprised at how seldom I needed anything bigger. It was a fuel-efficient and comfortable commuter, too.

Here, read this:

The history of “cuck”’s rise from the festering cesspool of 4Chan and r/TheDonald is well-documented. It’s squarely rooted in racism and the literal belief that brown-skinned immigrants are going to have bareback sex with all the white women. The claim is that if you’re a white man who doesn’t believe in resisting the…

We should make a rule that nobody gets to use the word “cuck” unless they are actually, currently, sleeping with someone else’s wife.

As much as we’d like to think of racing as some sacred pursuit, it’s a business —- a marketing-driven business. So are all the other professional sports. People who are successful in business will have opinions on politics, and if they are in a media-driven business, we shouldn’t be surprised when they show up on TV…

Love the deep dive here! Some damn good journalism.

We have a GTI in the family, and the answer to this question is Miata all day long, if you can live with only two seats. It’s the better driver’s car.

I’d like to hear more about the ride quality of this new Cooper Works. The past ones have been simply too stiff to drive in the city - not merely “uncomfortable,” but into the realm of “mushrooms its own strut mounting points in normal commuting.” I actually softened up the suspension on my R56 Mini Cooper after it…

I bet it means he has to spend two days changing Max Mosely’s swastika-embroidered colostomy bag.