Call me names if you want, but I’m disappointed that they didn’t hire Ben Collins as their new racing driver as an extra little shot in the eye to the BBC. I get the joke they are running with using Skinner, but he is waxing a stereotype that gets a bit old very fast, IMO. Not in an offensive way, just in a eye roll…

Hypocrisy isn’t limited to the conservative movement, they’re just louder and more amusing when they do it than the shrill screams and chants the liberals belt out. All in all, it’s pretty even between the two sides.

Given Toyota’s current design trends, not as good as the picture you’ve posted Justin.... and I’m not a big fan of that rendering if I’m honest.

The three failues I see in this process are as follows: financing costs to owners, maintenance costs to owners and VW not thinking all 400,000 people WOULDN’T be applying to have their cars bought back the first second they could.

This would be the proper way to do a SUV/CUV hatch...

2nd Gear/Neutral: FCA will see a massive drop in van sales here in Canada when the Grand Caravan disappears. Just looking at the starting prices of the Caravan vs. Pacifica should be enough of an eye opener to make one wonder if they want the Pacifica to fail:

There are a lot of good options listed here, some I didn’t even think of. In any case, here is what I narrowed it down to:

Ah, but wouldn’t the time-machine DeLorean be able to circumvent rule 6, allowing do-overs?

Wait, he’s keeping the truck in addition to this potential car? If that’s the case then why care/ limit yourself with with the cargo carrying concerns? The truck has him covered on that end, leave this fun car to the fun driving. Removing the cargo requirements, the answer is simple: MX-5 ;-)

As the saying goes, “....miata is always the answer.” This, or something similarly fun as a back-up ride (unless you live in a snow belt, in which case maybe something equally fun but more weather universal) to keep you moving as you go from one extreme fun ride to the next. That way when you are inbetween cars,…

I really want to like the S3. It is a grown-up version of a Golf R, meaning that it can fly under the radar a bit better when traveling quickly than the R would (yes the R is more practical with the hatch, but until Audi decides to do a fast-back S3 or offer the square-back-hatch here, it is what it is). It is…

A sorry excuse for a lack of 3 pedals and an H-pattern gear lever?

Can some please give me a solid argument as to why a self driving car somehow negates private ownership of cars? So far I have only read a bunch of hand-wavy “reasons” and “why would you”. Why wouldn’t you? That it can drive itself doesn’t negate the associated attachment and personalization and storage of stuff we…

Audi seems to be of the same line of thinking on design.

“Yes, the 2017 Acura NSX can beat the Nissan GTR”

Sadly yes. The “reasons” are all the stuff they “have” to bring with them when they go carting the progeny around. I can’t say the cars I grew up in were as small as a MKII Golf (I grew up riding in the back of a ‘76 Cutlass Supreme Coupe, a ‘81 Impala Coupe and an 86' Impala sedan before my dad ‘downsized’ to an 89…

The nicest thing I can say about the exterior look of this car is that it reminds me for some odd reason of the Mitsubishi Outlander. And frankly, that isn’t a very nice thing to say about any car.

Also known as an ‘endo’ I believe...

Well, if they do that they’d just make more Escapes, not the Everest or an old-school 2dr Bronco. Most people don’t want what you are asking for or the Everest. If people did Ford would have been making either of those trucks a long time ago. I don’t know about you, but I cannot remember the last time I saw a new…

/rant/ Why has the ‘flying C/D’ pillar design cue become a ‘thing’ EVERYONE has to emulate? I think Nissan started it with either the new Maxima or the Murano, and it looked silly there and yet it seems every new design since is mimicking this ‘floating roof’ idea that isn’t floating. It is actually worse (if that…