Smokey Yunick would like a word with these amateurs.

Not only can most of these systems be disabled, they can be set to a less intrusive mode. I suspect the manufacturers set the default trigger levels absurdly low so that people can see them in action on the test drive.

A FWD unibody truck. But at least they got the styling right this time, if your comment is any indication.

McDonald’s in HK for a date? Try a wedding.

I’ve seen a few advertised for less. Even if they arenot good enough, $40K is still quite a bit under $60K and could leave room for a cheaper second car.

I don’t think the reliability would be a “problem”, as the 360 was pretty reliable too, and I don’t think anyone got bored there. Having two cars could also help overcome that, as you did with the GT-R and Hummer. A mid-high mileage NSX could easily be just half of your $60K budget, leaving plenty for something else…

Outclassed? Not so much. Equalled, maybe (though most seem to think the 355 was the car that caught up). And even then, I seem to recall the NSX winning more competitions (except, when someone was silly enough to use the significantly slower automatic version). First hit on Google for NSX vs 348:

II usuallyjust use the high pressure and then spot free rinse. I’m afraid their soap will remove the wax.

Both were in IL, and were sold as is. Both were over 10 years old and 160k miles.

I’m sure this is the case some of the time, but not all the time. I bought 2 cheap, high mileage buy clean cars from dealerships. They both came on official dealership papers, and one I even paid for entirely with a credit card (at nearly $3500). Doubt the salesman could have pulled that off on his own. The dealership…

This works even better for long-haul flights where you can manage an evening arrival. By the time you are at your hotel, you can pass out until morning in your new local time, rather than not being able to sleep well all night because its morning or mid-afternoon at home. Makes jet lag significantly less of an issue.

shhhh, you’re going to make the anti-FWD bigots unhappy with claims that the FWD Camry handles similarly to the RWD RC.

I don’t think CRX has an official acronym.

I have no reason to doubt Mazda will release a concept car with a rotary engine.

I recently had a TLX loaner car, and I was pretty impressed by how smooth and quiet it was. Not much else, though. I looked up a couple of reviews on it and that seemed to be the consensus. Class-leading smoothness (no stiff performance suspension here), but otherwise nothing too special.

I think it was inherited from the NSX, where it meant eXperimental; but I don’t think it really has any meaning anymore.

So what you’re saying is Acura is the new Buick.

This was pre-2009 so it would have been the previous gen. Funny you mention the trunk, because it was tiny, only about 2’ from liftgate to back of the rear seats. Probably plenty of room if you remove the rear seats and turn it into a 2-seater...

I was in the same position 10 years ago. I moved to Chicago and wasn’t about to drive my NSX in the snow. Went test driving cheap sub-$3000, mostly FWD, vehicles for a winter beater. Drove all kinds of cars and didn’t find much that appealed to me until I drove a 91 Integra LS. Fell in love instantly. Slow, but…

I rented one once and it is one of the worst, most compromised vehicles I’ve ever driven. In trying to be all things to all people, it ends up terrible at all of them.