As is tradition! This falls right in line with the Buick Encore and Scion xB.

“seems like it ticks a lot of the “young person/family just starting off” boxes. should sell like crazy” to retirees...

So at this point is Red bull a racing/extreme sports company funded by energy drinks?

Stef! Hire her back!

This roasting is making me miss the people who made this site so awesome. 

Love how this site has lost so many staffers that a huge chunk of the “staffers” contributing to this roast aren’t even current members of staff.

It’s not really that it was -bad- so much as it was made a bunch of radical changes that the majority of players didn’t agree with.

There were no hub caps or valve covers in that kitchen for him to use...

If she’s 8' tall, I volunteer to climb that mountain.

No, it just looks like a crappy knockoff Tundra. Which is probably exactly what it is.

While not real in any sense, I feel they nailed the important stuff.

As I said elsewhere, the double-DIN infotainment isn’t so simple to retrofit because the S-Type setup in these has the HVAC integrated into it (see below picture). And crucial functions of the HVAC are actually in the touchscreen interface. You can downgrade to the standard setup, with the non-nav infotainment and the…

Any and all of the early Herbie movies deserve a nod. (Buddy Hackett as a race mechanic? Come on... ) And Days Of Thunder, just because it takes itself oh so very seriously.

Since no one else said it, I nominate Initial D: Third Stage. But also the franchise as a whole. Third Stage is a movie, though, so it counts. Basic premise is still the same, local punk with an AE86 is a course specialist who spanks everyone on his mountain. But now he’s gotten a massive engine upgrade and needs some…

You operate in this weird twilight where you know about these things but also know that not everyone else does. Amazingly self aware.

The affinity is pretty easy to understand- if you want (This next part is pure justification) a mechanically simple, easy to fix, mod or whatever vehicle that’s as basic as it gets but still has amenities like AC that works, this is what you want.

“80s and 90s American cars fanatic discovers 80s and 90s Japanese cars were better”

Reading this is like reading an article about a blind guy regaining his sight. Having driven nothing but complete heaps of crap, our intrepid traveler was awestruck by the modern conveniences of a newer car. “It starts, it stops, my feet don’t get wet when I drive through puddles, the speedometer doesn’t leak oil onto…

In this article, David Tracy discovers that there is more to life than derelect American cars. Wait til you drive some old BMW’s, that’ll blow your mind!