There’s the Chevy Spark, and it even comes in cool colors like yellow, and even a really awesome shade of blue similar to Porsche’s Miami Blue :o)

I am already considering getting drunk, that is what sort of day I’m having. Thanks for asking.

I’d really like to replace my 07 Accord with another manual car, but by the time the chip shortage is over, there may be no manuals left. 

Maverick handled the situation like a diva. 

Well at least when Crutchlow damages the bike, you know it wasn’t on purpose!

This right here. The problem isn’t that you can’t get things, the problem is you can’t get specific things without having an extra grand worth of other crap tacked on.

Right? I tried to price an “Outer Banks” Bronco — which has the nicer interior and comfort options — and it wouldn’t allow the manual. (Sigh). As if anyone who wants a stick couldn’t possibly appreciate style or convenience.

Except that’s not true. The pre-collision warnings in my Impala are so obnoxious I turned them off. I’m a non-aggressive driver who squeezes every last mile out of his brakes and tires and the damn thing was still yelling at me. Totally useless in normal driving.

And I will never understand why carmakers thing that people who want a manual want every bell and whistle on even the base model. I’d never want to prevent people like you from getting all of the features you want, but I definitely want them to be optional so that I can still get a car without them and you can add…

In principle I agree with you, but I want to point out that the C5 was a MAJOR change over the C4. The core concepts behind it are the same, and you can certainly spot similarities and analogues if you observe the unclad subframe assemblies, but the construction is so fundamentally different between the two cars that…

But by bringing it to the US, you now have to make it meet all US standards. Emissions, crash tests, pedestrian safety, lighting, etc. Literally everything has to be reevaluated to hit marks it wasn’t meant to, adding more and more engineering time and therefore cost.

The C7 was an evolution of the C6 which was an evolution of the C5, and, you guessed it, that was an evolution of the C4.

You mean the automarket that doesn’t buy small cars, let alone small performance cars?

Well, big deal. Platform sharing is nothing new. The Corvette used the same basic chassis from 1963 through to 1982. The C7 was an evolution of the C6, and the similarities are quite apparent. If a platform works well for its mission its age is really not that important. The current Chrysler 300, Challenger and…

Blows my mind they didn’t throw a 6MT on the 4cyl. I think there’s a really good selling point for a lighter, manual transmission Supra.

Don’t remind me…

In my opinion, that actually looks better than what Hyundai put out. 

I’m so tired of hearing people complain about “platforms” as if they could afford to buy anything other than a brand new leftover 2016 Dodge Dart.

Platform whining carryover is just a way for insecure car geeks to try and look smart and discerning. Newsflash, literally every big automaker just started doing what Nissan did 20 years ago with FM. BMW has CLAR, Mercedes has MRx, VWAG has MxB, etc etc. If you think they’re gonna toss those platforms out any time…

It is a masterful restyling job and will get a serious test drive from me.