Any word on if/when we can expect to see Chief again?  Similarly limited color mid-2021.

I’ve said many times that the mandates are their own worst enemy.  They burn so many bridges and destroy so much goodwill that they're entirely counter productive.

I think they’re not widespread because it’s pretty hard to justify $5 for what we know is $0.50 at the grocery store and can be warmed in the microwave.

So Acura is producing...a Mazda 3 competitor?

As a Michigan Tech grad, the assertion “driving in Houghton-Hancock in the winter is terrifying” is a tremendous stretch. In-town driving including everything from South Range to Calumet is pretty normal. The road commission has an excellent handle on clearing snow and liberally applies sand after every snowfall. The…

I’m very confused how the same company that said they wouldn’t put a manual in the C8 corvette despite a take rate of 20% to 50% is now defending putting a manual into a car that will probably mix at what? 10% to 15% based on the ATS-V and previous-gen CTS-V.

I suspect that the “prototype” is further off from a production car then they’re leading us to believe.  The real car isn’t expected until 2023.  This seems like a styling exercise as part of a marketing study.

I’ve wondered if it came down to ground clearance or not. That IFS means the Wrangler is probably going to stay king of the rocks. That’s probably fine, most of us don’t have access to that kind of terrain.

If Bronco handles higher speed dunes/desert like the Raptor does, (and I’m sure it will) it’ll have its own…

MOPAR sells a similar wheel for the Wrangler.  It’s not an uncommon option.

In my opinion, Ford needs a good kick in the pants. Hackett’s decisions were motivated by failed attempts to raise the stock price. Cutting sedans, putting the ST badge on warmed-over crossovers, putting the Mustang badge on an unconventional concept. The man was not a car guy, and he made decisions like Ford was any…

The number of cars that nobody will sell is irritating. I’m going to need a new car in the next 18 months or so and I would buy ANY of the niche vehicles that nobody makes. These include:

This is pretty much where I’m at too. I want this car. 250 hp is plenty to justify replacing my RX8. It will be a done deal if there’s a manual. Otherwise I’ll wait until the new Golf R comes out to decide. I’m getting one of them.  I think the Mazda is the sweet spot for a daily (performance and cost).  The Golf is…

We’ve had ours on the dunes and we put snow tires on it this winter. It was unstoppable in any circumstance we threw at it. I’ve been very pleased.

There’s a marketing firm involved, for sure. The engineers working on the program are also wildly excited and shit-talking in person. I own a JL Wrangler, and my Ford Engineer friends just keep talking about how much better Bronco is going to be.  I’ll believe it when I see it.

From what I understand, the Ford engineers are wildly excited about this truck. They say they’ve benchmarked the Wrangler and have it beat in any given metric. It seems they expect it to include a bunch of features that Jeep does in the aftermarket.

I will at least be test-driving it either way. The tuning can be fixed, as can the transmission (theoretically). Once they’ve got 2/3 (Turbo, Manual, AWD), I’m ready to build my Gen4 MazdaSpeed 3.

What if you’re a Michigander who lusts after NB miatas? I’ve owned a ‘99 base stripper car, an ‘04 MSM and I’d love to get my hands on a clean 10AE. That blue is beautiful man.

I understand the 2-doors in the woods thing, trails are definitely the best-case for the original Wrangler formula. If it was my Jeep then it’d be a 2 door or an XJ but it’s her daily, so it gets back seats for car seats.

Because when you put the truck bed on it, the 4 door is obnoxiously long. It has significant issues with both break-over and departure because of its size.

As someone who bought a JL 4 door Wrangler, the idea of the gladiator is attractive. It improves on the formula in 2 ways:
1) it has more cargo space (the JL leaves…

Mazda did something similar to this with the Skyactiv engines and the Mazda 3. It can boost sales of an old model while providing a safer enviroment to work out any final kinks in a production release of the powertrain (fewer sales, known chassis).  It should mean the first new model year of the new truck will be…