It'll be here soon enough as the 4-door Smart ForFour.

Reminds me of, "You've got to put Mercury on your list!!"

Thus far, the only one that I'm not in the majority on is the Dodge Neon... It was a close call. That generation of Jetta is my favorite, but I had to give the vote to the Neon. They were very light and tossable... and you still still them on the roads in abundance—the Jettas are mostly dead.

...and gay guys in their mid-twenties today.

Here's another excellent Regular Car Reviews piece on what was so very, very right about the Chrysler New Yorker. RCR's point is that back in the '80s, Chryser was still pulling itself back up after a soul-shaking bailout. What they did was platform engineer their cars to the nth degree, and everything from budget…

Except for Chrysler/Fiat who are focusing on diesel engines instead of hybrids or EVs.

I prefer the BlackBerry 10 platform over anything iOS, but I like that line you used.

This reminds me, we need to have a van off.

How about modern day tall wagons?

Yes, but I adore Chrysler...and Mazda is a good company. I want them to make beautiful joint-venture cars.


Toyota makes my skin crawl.

3rd Gear: Why is Mazda sharing with Toyota?!?! I thought they were going to be in cahoots with Chrysler/Fiat? Hell, the Dodge brand could use a good ballsy subcompact. You know, like the Colt but modern & good.

How about Alfa stick to small cars, so the Ghibli can stay fighting the 5-series. Alfa should just tackle the 3-series, 1-series, and the new i-whatevers from BMW—plus have the 4c and other two-seaters sporty flyers not to cross Jaguar XK territory.

We need a new C30... I'll take this as a C50 cohort.

The original Juke has lots of the same strange appeal as that Multipla — it's odd, it can be jarring, but it's sure as hell memorable and most importantly, it looks intentional. It doesn't feel like something that just happened after averaging the results of a crapload of focus groups, it looks like a vision realized.

Yes, yes, YES!!!!

The Suzuki Verona (2nd gen Daewoo Leganza; sold as a Chevy in Canada) had an I-6 mounted longitudinally. They typically don't mount them that way because in can interfere with the turning circle of a car. The Verona/Leganza didn't have that issue, but it can be an issue—it'll all just depend on how low the nose of…

Volkswagen taillights.

Because Mazdas don't rust AT ALL.

The shooting brake ought to be reserved for the Alfa & Dodge twins it'll have.

Standard on quite a few Chryslers in the late-80 until mid-90s; they were REALLY nice sound systems. The clarity was superb.