“Unsurprisingly, there are no studies which show that women are seeking out abortions based on race or sex...”

Oops... my bad. Must have auto-corrected. :/

Actually, North America lost both the hatch and wagon in the 2009 refresh - the version that kinda looked like the European version, but not as nice somehow, and a little bit larger. Thankfully, we’re all back sharing the same car again.

No matter how Marchionne tries to paint it, a merger with FCA is very unappealing due to the baggage the company has and is doomed to drag the partner down. Why? Because Marchionne already did a merger with the creation of FCA and look at how well that has turned out. Why would any company want to merge (in the sense…

Why kill the show over one problem person? More economical to just remove the problem person (Evans) from the show and carry on. Not like they aren’t short for hosts now, and at this stage, let’s be honest everyone is pretty expendable for the sake of the show.

You stand in the unique position of being both right and wrong at the same time.

When I was a kid, my school playground was a big sand-dune, and there was a 40ft tall hill. We’d spend recesses digging courses down the side of the hill and race marbles. Ah, simpler times.

Is that meant to be a bad thing? I think all Mercedes (save maybe the old G-Wagon) have a column ‘stalk’ thing for selecting PRND now. And it just is a tap up/down thing then goes back to it’s neutral position, which is kind of dumb design in it’s own right.

Oh for goodness sakes! They had the best idea that explained exactly what the show was and Clarkson then backed off.

Myself, I don’t look at it as a ‘cheaper’ option so much as a ‘better value’ option. The ‘fair’ comparison really for quantity/dollar is only the internet+subscriptions vs internet+premium cable channels, where it is $132/mo vs $160/mo. Yes, saving of only $28/mo doesn’t sound huge, but what isn’t factored in is the…

And yet, we have a plethora of manufacturers who seem to have ample car-guys in place who are giving us a bunch of fun, amazing cars. Sure there needs to be balance, but for a company that trades on being the driver-centric choice, shying away from the ultimate driving versions of their products seems counter…

Shrewd businessmen tend to not be very exciting, and tend to piss a lot of people off. Moro seems to be excelling at the latter. While the looks are wildly improved and driving-centric feel of Mazdas continues, the shying away from performance varients is not becoming of a company whose tag line for the last decade…

I haven’t read too many enthusiastic (by “unbiased” publications) about any -F car, save for the LFA which was a multi-million-dollar thought experiment. The general sense seemed to come across as ‘this is a really good fast Lexus’, which I suppose is good, but it isn’t in the same vein as what one might read about…

Sure, in an arms-reach sense. But the only product that shares anything with Toyota is the ES and the GX suv, which are rebadged Toyotas. And teh GS-F and IS-F haven’t exactly been crowned as performance-car wonders. They are a good effort, but why should Lexus having some sort-of fun cars mean that Toyota shouldn’t,…

Okay... in North America they weren’t willing to. Why there is such a disconnect between EuroToyota and NAToyota... I mean now that the thing is a Toyota here, they still can’t commit to the same name - we just get ‘86', not GT-86. I’m old enough that ‘86' to me makes me think of this:

.... made by Subaru.

I would argue Toyota’s contribution to the 86/BRZ development was money. I’d have to do some googling, but I do remember reading just before/as the cars were coming out that it was revealed that Subaru basically did all the real development work, and Toyota just financed it because they couldn’t get their own project…

Being a ‘car guy’ should be a job requirement. What, you aren’t into cars? Then what are you doing applying for a job at a car-company? Seriously, go down the street to the appliance company.... or Toyota.

Except Toyota. This guy smells of Toyota.

No-body “needs” an MX-5, or a Fiesta ST, or a Focus RS, or a Golf R, but they are cars that people must ‘might’ want to buy. The MX-5 only fills a small niche and let’s face it, is only a slight show-room draw. With no RX on the reasonable horizon, having a MS3 and MS6 and a more-powerful MX-5 for that matter is just…