All-Seasons = Suckage

Yep, never saw anybody else in the parking lots, Nothing to hit but poles.

Pfffft!

Good-guy GTO driver: signals while hooning.

You, good sir, have not mastered the fine art of e-brake turns, have you?

Let me tell you a story of young lad, with a Ford Probe GT, and a snowy Richmond, VA winter. A one foot snow storm meant all but the main roads were unplowed. Side streets had a snowbank in front of them because, well, they weren't main roads.…

WHERE THE HELL ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO PRACTICE CAR CONTROL IF NOT IN ANY EMPTY, PERFECTLY SAFE MALL PARKING LOT?!?!

I'm mostly trolling about the weirdness. Generally I've found shifting to be a text deterrent. Not because one's hands are full, but because one would rather just drive.

Because when the automatic transmission was invented, manuals were unsynchronized & often very heavy to use, which if you've never driven a crashbox, means that they're a pain in the ass for non-enthusiasts. Shifting one properly is an art; that's where heel & toeing came from. And it's a lot easier to start up a…

I'm just positing that that "cold, harsh reality" doesn't necessarily represent human advancement.

You're not wrong about sales. You probably detected a hint of sarcasm in my post. But I disagree with you about the ease of things being the hallmark of human progress. Well, maybe it is, but it shouldn't be. I think our enjoyment of activities is a better metric.

Gary, please stop posting reasonable responses on Jalopnik. It makes me upset.

The automatic transmission. Someone came up with the idea that the car should actually shift gears for you. It strikes me as odd. Why would anyone want to remove so much of the driving experience? Should I buy a robot to play with my dog for me?

One pill makes Torch bigger...

I was about to post this same thing. It's like a big crossover body with a sedan roof on top. And that C-pillar is enormous! The design isn't bad, but the proportions are all wrong. Sucks that this is the direction modern car design is going.

Is it me or does this thing look freaking HUGE? Look at the person inside.

In the old days, less power meant lightness. "Sure, that little engine only makes 100 hp, but it means the car only weighs a ton. A bigger engine adds more weight." But I don't think this ratio has held over the years, as technology advanced. Ford's 2.3 Ecoboost four makes north of 300 hp. Mercedes has a 2.0 with…

In an alternate reality, some grandma in a 1997 dodge caravan just locked her brakes in the middle of the turn and under-steered right into that curb.