To be fair, it’s not entirely power numbers. My Fit has 117hp but does 0-60 a full second faster than the hybrid Crosstrek.

A more financially sound version of this is “could I conceivably write a check for 20% of this vehicle within the next year and not think twice about it”? Cars do depreciate, but you still have a physical asset to borrow against. This is also why “zero down” is up there with 84-month loan terms in the category of…

As pretty as they may be, they’re limited use vehicles and should be sold as such. Genze’s starting price point is around $3500, anything higher than that and they won’t even interest the early adopter crowd.

Feel. The 86/BRZ’s torque curve is kind of a mess, especially compared to a Miata. And Mazda didn’t really screw with the underlying power of the car, just added a fuckton of top-end and some slight tuning down lower to make it more livable. The 26hp come with...3 or 4 extra ft-lbs? So the basic torque curve of the ND…

The more and more auto purchases are predicated solely on “sense”, the less room there is in the world for enthusiasts. This will always be true, and is also why appeals to logic on this topic are misguided for this audience.

Both the Pulsar and the Sonnett have been regulars at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix for years...striking cars.

Tesla’s design model from the beginning has been to make the c-rate as low as possible to improve cycle life. My guess is that the Roadster needs 200kWh to make those full-throttle pulls possible without severely depleting the battery...the extra range is more of a nice bonus than a design goal.

Especially when, due to weight and power, the Rebel 500 punches in the weight class of the 750 or even the Sportster 883. The Street 500 is, for multiple reasons, an inferior bike.

$6k, same amount of power (at 9k you’re only getting the 883), lighter (by 150 pounds), not purchased at a dealership where no one thinks it’s a “real bike” like the Sportster is among Harley riders.

My father worked in standards for about a decade and a half, though in the software world. Still, the processes by which any of these standardization committees operate is their own delightful kind of insanity.

Both the Carina and the Celica sat on Toyota’s T platform, along with the Corona, and later the Avensis, Allion, and Premio. The Carina and the Celica are likely the most closely related of the platform mates; the Carina was adapted into the Celica Camry in 1980, and both switched from RWD to FWD at around the same…

The hat box is the only piece of typical (archaic) luggage not represented by the set. The reason the representative size is a “shoebox” is that most hatboxes are round, and therefore really difficult to fit consistently.

I’m pretty sure H-boxes is short for hat boxes.

The same engine in the Lexus UX has been announced to make 168hp.

It’s a wagon. It’s basically a wagon.

The Celicas skipped the odd numbers. A70, the third gen Supra, was the first A-platform which was only a Supra and the first that was an odd number. A20s were first gen Celicas, A40s were second gen Celicas and first gen Supras, A60s were third gen Celicas and second gen Supras. The fourth gen Celica went FWD and was…

Well, if all car owners are willing to rush to the defense of their chosen purchase without understanding the context or how deeply the author’s tongue is in his cheek, I think we’ve discovered why heart disease is the leading killer in the United States. *sigh*

Buying interesting cars and not driving them is bad enthusiast behavior, car notwithstanding. CP.

How...how can so many commenters miss the point of this article? Even when the lead-in mentioned truck bragging specifically, you *still* got an incredible amount of butthurt.

I’m incredibly biased, but I think that the post-refresh 2nd gens (2012-14) are the best Fits out there.