Yeah, this gen was like famously unibody. It’d be like calling the Grand Cherokee body-on-frame.

It’s not that bad.

If you want a large EV sedan, there haven’t been many options.

There are annual safety inspections in California? I’ve never heard of that, only smog, unless they’re doing both at the same time?

This looks fun. It reminds me of all the Flash driving games of my youth. There was one in particular that was really liminal like this, it put you in a Mitsubishi L200 or an Eastern European bus of some kind (an Ikarus? or a LiAZ?) and had a small cityscape to explore surrounded by a few hills, but IIRC the cars had…

A shame seeing as the Golf is no longer for us, GTI excepted. I wonder how the new Jetta and 3 compare? The Jetta I drove was the US-specific model you mentioned.

Watch out before other commenters come in and tell you ‘E-segment isn’t big at all!’

I believe it’s due to the model changeover. In the rest of the world at least the outgoing Outlander PHEV is so far the best-selling PHEV of all time.

I’ve never driven a Golf, but Mazdas are certainly nicer than Jettas. I’m assuming the Golf is better than the Jetta because it’s actually European?

See, this is the problem. As enthusiasts we wouldn’t prefer to buy the CUV, but automakers have made the regular hatches so ‘sporty’ and ‘stylish’ that they’re totally impractical and have become the ‘sport compacts’ of yore. I remember when Mazda’s C-segment hatch was a usable family car:

exactly. also, same sausage different lengths is only good when the sausage is nice:

That’s what I was thinking. Tungsten, as in the crap lightbulbs we used to use before LED came to save us all?

Maybe the previous lifts just weren’t wide enough?

Volvo got pretty good mileage out of that engine as you point out in V8 Supercars and with the Penta boat division. Would have probably been even better if it had come out in 1995 instead of 2005.

gen1 Prius lookin ass wheels

I guess I just meant the car as a whole from its styling to its Cologne V6 and British built-in-a-barn attitude is something very of its time. But yes, the ‘80s revival is getting more than a bit too literal.

I’m essentially just saying that whatever’s currently happening isn’t sustainable for anyone involved, thus it needs to be tweaked. If the idiots won’t stop getting themselves hit, alterations need to be made for the safety and convenience of those on board, at the very least.

I dunno, advocating that people who get hit by trains get what they deserve feels a bit more eugenics-y than I like. Also, I’m not saying individual responsibility shouldn’t be a thing, but track fatalities affect more than just the people who die, i.e. trauma for train operators, delays for commuters, etc. If it’s…

That is a good example of 80's styling.

Yeah, especially since the CT sedans are nearly as good.