With all the effort around brand differentiation, the car in the most important segment these days is the one that has the hardest time looking different from it’s Chevy cousin. How do you compete when your entry to the cash cow segment is the one having the hardest time competing?

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Check out the Kia Optima taillights.

Maximum Hummer Velocity (MHV) should be a unit of measurement.

I have the opposite feeling. I would not know how to sleep without gravity.

You would have to stay out of the middle east. They have strict lockdowns on fun stuff like alcohol and nearly naked women. They also rule over their countries with iron fists, so you would either need to include a prince in the rally or likely be arrested and put in a slave labor camp.

I suppose the M235 badging is easier to upsell from that standpoint, but that begs the question why they didn’t make an M440i?

What I don’t understand is why they abandoned the “is” so fast after applying it to the 1 & 3 series. Now they want to revert to a 3 letter package, maybe as a post-throwback-throwback? Surely the “is” designation is an easier up-sell to your traditional luxury buyer than a package name.

The “sharing economy” is the oldest form of trade known. If you just focus on the bartering type services, that eliminates the need for currency all together, and you get something you value and you give something you value. If you are looking at the things people use for profit, it is quite possibly one of the most…

This guy wears copper fit bands all over his body for their soothing effects, he doesn’t always drink beer, but he prefers Dos Equis, he has tried to help out some wounded veterans and Nigerian princes transfer millions of dollars but it never seems to work out, he has subscriptions to 50 different websites where a…

Yawn...the troll is strong.

What do you Peugeot I do? Let the public opinion roll over me like a Darl’mat?

Not unrelated at all. Actually slightly MORE relevant to my interests than the article.

This makes my panhard.

I might have a new picture to use...for private things.

So in keeping with the theme that cars must get better with every generation, what happens when they get to 399is? They already screwed the pooch with wasting the 4xx designation on the 3 coupe.

I was just arguing with someone the other day about this car. I said that if I had the money I would buy this and another car for when I needed more than a go cart. His argument was that you could get so much more for your money at the price point.

You always come through in a pinch!

From my experience, the other people usually at Volvo dealerships other than myself are middle class professional folks just trying to get some repairs on their most comfortably-seated steed. Can’t be mad when you sit in those seats all the time.

Shelby story is just sad.