I'd love to know what a Lexus dealer revolt looked like. Probably a lot of middle-aged guys in bad suits throwing bottles of white wine on the ground, I dunno

Actually, diagonally across on the other side of the country - Northeast native!

I believe that the premise of the Prius is to externally give off some sort of air of "I'm better than you cause I drive this and I clearly don't put extra whip on my latte because that's bad for my health and I only use soy milk and you're an asshole for not doing what I do".

I'd like to see a forklift lifting a crate of forks. It'd be so damn literal!

My wife is a nurse and lived through 9 New England winters with a Jetta with snow tires and didn't get stuck once. Not once. My mother has been a nurse since 1975 and has lived in New England her whole life and didn't have AWD drive until 6 years ago and never had an issue. I work at a job that I have to go to in the…

It's not that bad, maybe a smidge homely:

Immediately on my "Red Alert" road list, next to the CR-V / RAV-4 and Murano. I assume the first time I'll encounter one of these on the road, it will be piloted very slowly in the passing lane on a surface street. When I finally relent and go to pass on the right, the driver will floor the gas pedal and swerve at me…

looks like a overdone fat pig crossover, then again almost all crossovers look pretty bad

hardly any better looking

"The New Toyota Prius V" - A personification.

Hyundai-KIA, ripping off other companies' designs since 1967

I sourced from miata. Net that Its torsion rear beam... Pretty lame setup if you ask me...

That's terrible. Meaning people will buy it. I guess the real solution to no one buying a Mazda2 is the jack it up, add cladding, and call it a CUV.

Dammit Mazda. Stop feeding into the CUV craze! Do something with that weezy powerplant in the CX-5. It's a good looking vehicle, but the engine sounds like a chain smoker running from a pack of hungry wolves, especially in Colorado, with its high elevations.

That was a supercharged Ford heart in a 740 I believe.

No, his had a supercharged Ford 302. If you want more info on that The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee episode with Letterman involves them driving the wagon that Newman got Letterman to buy. They're essentially identical I think.

No. The Newman (and Letterman plus a third) Volvo wagons were supercharged Ford V8s. Also, I think, a few model years older still using the 960 nomenclature. I am more confident of the first sentence than the second.

is this newmans own volvo wagon?!?!

"7 - Properly maintained, I haven't seen any reason to call this generation of 5-series any more or less reliable than any other car. There are still a lot of these e39s on the road, "