The BX was bigger than a Golf but smaller than a Passat, but priced like the Golf. It was halfway between the C and D segment.

That’s not sagging.

lol @ apples/oranges comparisons. Yeah a homologated rally car and a 5.2 liter V8-powered pony car are “slightly more to my liking” too. Just as a Benjamin is slightly more to my liking than a sawbuck.

Ok I’m going to be “that guy”. This advert is from late ‘86 as the car is a D reg, so September ‘86 onwards. The BX had been on sale in the UK for few years before that, this advert is for the facelift version (the white indicators the full size of the headlights are a giveaway).

The BX wasn’t a “compact” at all. Aside from the fact that classification didn’t (and doesn’t) exist in Europe, the BX was a four-door family sedan. My mom bought a Visa around then. That was the small hatchback within the Citroën line-up at the time. Hatchback or no, the BX was no more a “compact” than the Audi A7.

My grandparents had a white BX Break (estate) when I was very little. I remember it being the smoothest, most comfortable car ever, with big squishy seats. As a very small child I was fascinated by the way it would rise up after starting, as the hydraulic system pressurised itself.

Whether or not the suspensions were difficult is a matter of opinion, but it’s interesting that it’s only described that way in markets where they weren’t sold.

Ouch. At what point in time does this take become irrelevant? It’s been 70+ years already since WWII. Plus we have a guy in the White House folding like cheap suit when in the same room as Putin or Xi.

Better. Keep expanding the sample size. But even monthly averages in an area can’t tell an accurate picture. Simply variance means in any given year it can happen. Now expand it to say perhaps hundreds of areas? Even better. Of course yearly is the right direction, but really the only way to truly illustrate it is…

People who use a specific point in time or an anecdote to deny global warming are idiots. People who do it to prove global warming are even dumber as they also give legitimacy to the former.

Was it really a difficult decision? How well do road bikes ford ad hoc riverbeds while going downhill in a hailstorm?

I don’t know how race organizers could have mitigated an act of God, but I feel terrible for Alaphilippe. To ride so well for three weeks, and have it taken away near the last minute by something out of your control has to be beyond devastating.

For a $180k car that just came out in 2017, I would say it’s an egregious fail that it doesn’t have a 360 degree camera.

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I imagine this car smells like my grandparents house inside. 

It’s goddamned Toyota with a CVT, a transportation appliance. I’m glad SOMEONE is impressed, but it surely isn’t me.

So, is it viewed to be more prestigious than say a Rolls because it’s Japanese made?

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$180k for......a 2004 Toyota with some electronics and switch gear from 2012.

That Wikipedia entry is completely wrong. Just utter made-up bullshit.