Surviving the warranty period is not a a benchmark for reliability. A competent, reliable car should be able to hit 100k miles with no problem. Persistent issues under warranty is downright ridiculous and worthy of never considering that automaker again.

Cars back then didn’t have expressive faces, so this is a non-issue.

The US has some idiotic regulations regarding lighting: they’re particular about how sequential turn signals illuminate but then are perfectly okay with brake lights serving double duty as turn signals. That said, Porsche’s obscenely complex headlights are ridiculous. Even ignoring the relative unreliability of GPS…

I’d argue that those kinds of consumers have been buying Hyundai/Kia for well over a decade now. The Koreans’ strong point has always been value for the dollar; it’s one of the things that enabled them to gain so much ground on the Japanese.

Isn’t this the sort of thing car enthusiasts have been wanting for decades? A stripped down car that offers only the essentials.

I think you’re mixing up models. The QX50 shares a platform with the Altima and Murano. The QX30 is the badge engineered Mercedes GLA.

This is the last thing we need. We already have idiots installing red LEDs in their headlights; I wouldn’t want to make it even easier for these people to choose inappropriate, distracting and confusing colors.

This truck would look so much better if the roofline didn’t end in a peak, much like that concept from the 70s. That one styling element cranks up the weirdness of this design a hundredfold.

You could say the same about so many older cars, especially if they offer the vaguest pretense of performance or luxury on a budget (before maintenance costs hit). A few popular examples: Civic, Altima, Scion tC, Infiniti G35, Jaguar X-Type.

I have the Corolla Hatchback myself and I generally don’t have a problem with how it shifts. It did take a while to adjust, but I figured that came from having driven a dual clutch for 10 years. Nowadays upshifts and downshifts come pretty naturally and with no thought.

Let’s not get carried away here. It’s a very nice looking car, but there’s also something vaguely off about the design. A decade is a long time and I don’t think most car aficionados would be hard-pressed to come up with 5 better looking cars. Hell, I can think of a handful of SUVs that look better than this and I…

I’m fairly certain the overwhelming majority of local news stories in my area are computer generated. They’re not even half as good as your example; whoever is responsible has long since given up on trying to make them coherent.

I take it aerodynamics are not a concern. Maybe crawling it will reach 200 miles, because I don’t see this brick pulling it off at highway speeds.

I’ve seen 4 or 5 Supras in the past couple of months. In that time I’ve only seen a single new Z4. By contrast, I see countless new luxury SUVs within a month or two of them hitting the market. From that perspective I’d say the Supra is doing pretty well.

I like how this thing looks, although I have to admit that it looks a bit too angry. I’m also not a fan of the two-tone; Toyota offers the same option for the Corolla HB in Europe and, like this car, it’s somehow disruptive to the overall design. Other than that, it looks at least as good as any subcompact on the…

This whole venture reeks of typical American management: a kernel of a good idea ruined by a whole series of bad decisions. The most pathetic thing is that when they eventually kill this bike they’re not going to do any self-assessment, they’re going to blame a bunch of external factors.

American parents act like they’re raising an army of giants. Your average family has 2 kids which means that any compact sedan could seat them comfortably.

Wow, that photo makes the interior look cheap and tacky. I get that it’s not a great photo, taken in less than ideal light, but the whole thing screams cost-cutting.

All American automakers have always had this problem of over-styling interiors to look upmarket despite not having the budget for it. Instead of embracing constraints they go for that initial wow factor. The unfortunate result is always an interior that looks busy and cheap.

Honestly, the worst aspect of that interior is the steering wheel; it looks incredibly cheap. While I think there should be a few physical buttons in there, the rest would be okay if there were a second informational display for the driver.