And it was televised, it was fun to watch.

I like the rear lights but that’s about it. Everything else is too much of a compromise. From the side it looks too tubby and the windows too small. It looks as though it’s been lowered as well the wheels are too big for the car. At the front the grill is too big so it clashes with the light design.

I was recently out of school when that came out and I was so disappointed. Luckily the Veloster came out around the same time and did it much better. 

CR-Z

I don’t know why they made Leo Beebe a villian. He was actually a pretty good guy, and felt terrible that Miles lost.

The big ones are still a big deal: New York, Los Angeles, IAA, etc. The other ones are just a low-pressure way for customer to check out a lot of vehicles without any sales pressure.

My dad bought his Cx5 after sitting in one at the LA Autoshow a few years back. He liked being able to check on various things without a dealer rep hounding him.

I like Auto Shows

I think he meant an actual Car Show.

Not sure what shows you went to that were “no touch.” All of the major shows have most of the major manufacturer models available to sit in.

Rush is a good movie, but they embellished the off-track tension and feud between the two. From some accounts, they may have been roommates at some point earlier in life.

definitely agree with newburner. whether you’re an f1 fan or not its definitely a great flick that shows the true grit Lauda possessed, and it also gave you a glimpse into what pushes these drivers to do what they do. need a senna movie next 

I don't think the rise in cubic inches was necessarily "size creep" so much as the Big 3 trying desperately to keep horsepower figures close to where they'd been since the mid 50s. The write-up says this 350 has 165 HP; that was probably about midway between the 250 six and the 283 V8 ten years earlier. I'm convinced…

Even “economy” cars like Novas, Dodge Darts, Plymouth Valiants, etc. were frequently equipped with V8 engines of > 300 Cubic inches or larger!

Particularly things like instrument clusters and head/tail lights are extremely expensive to develop. Many hundreds of thousands in tooling costs before you get to the testing/validation mentioned by others.

Yes, economies of scale allows the prices of the components to be far less, Designing a part and then manufacturing it at low quantities is very expensive. If a part is already designed and in-use it is “off the shelf” and there are no design costs, also if the part is shared with a high quantity model like a Malibu…

Of course they do. Designing bespoke components for low-volume cars costs the same amount of money as designing it for any other car, but you sell fewer cars so the per-part price is much higher. But, if you take common parts from other cars you offset the per-item cost considerably. That’s how automakers were able to…

It took him 20 years to accept the thought that the GDR was too flawed to survive. He now acknowledges that as a fact. But if offered an insta-Socialism-pill right now, he’d take it.

And plaid seats ?

Even though in many ways cars are more reliable than they used to be, the preponderance of electronics doesn’t help—more things to go wrong. And they do. If reliability is an upgrade, at this point in life, I am willing to pay more for it. I don’t care if a car has great handling, performance, etc.—if it’s in the shop…