you miss the /s?

I dunno, spend a week Down Under and you kinda get bludgeoned into being ok with it. Beats BMWs new face any day.

No Ridgeline?

Right, my point being is if I was shopping for a car at that price point today I wouldn’t want to buy what she sold. The aforementioned CR-Vs and Outbacks aren’t as prone to the same tax as Civics and Corollas because they can be more finicky, but if you’re willing to do some minor repairs (which you might have to do…

uh, hello?

Except Daewoos were cheap, had GM parts (meh, but at least recognizable), and were sales successes in global developing markets before arriving in the U.S.

Considering how well they sell in developing markets, I’d say our standards are just too high. Hell, the Outlander Sport still sells in the top ten in Australia. For cheap cars they’re fine. What else is there? A Versa?

Yes, but those are becoming increasingly expensive. My roommate paid $3.5k for an ‘04 Civic in 2019 and sold it for just about that in 2022 with many more dings and dents. Myself I’d never pay that for a beat up 20 year old Civic when there are bigger and nicer cars at the budget (i.e. CR-V, Outbacks, Camrys), but you…

Right, because poor people with kids don’t deserve to get places quickly! They should have to travel like it’s the 1800s!

Ah yes, the ferry from San Francisco to Mumbai.

No offense, but uh, this is like finding out those ‘Day in the Life of a Chinese Farmer’ cooking videos actually employ a full professional camera crew and are pre-planned and staged. Like, duh? Who thought that sort of U-turn was part of someone’s daily driving repertoire?

an avowed anti-Ford person

Behind the third row, the Carnival has 40.2 cu ft, Sienna has 33.5 cu ft, and Odyssey has 32.8 cu ft. There’s really nothing that can do three rows and cargo as proficiently as a minivan.

I suspect it’s more likely that the Model S and Y would shift too small sales numbers in the UK (and other RHD markets) for the RHD development and manufacturing costs to make sense.

Agree that it’s sad it’ll never drive again, but I think similarly silly is these high end manufacturers selling ‘track-only’ race cars to the uber-rich since it kind of seals the fate of these cars. Like, sure, they’ll track it a couple times (no doubt with a manufacturer-mandated pit team), and then it’s destined to…

There’s a lot of boring cars in this comments section masquerading as ‘weird’. Obviously the real answer is something from China:

No Citroen DS# series to just DS Automobiles?

Interesting, I wonder if it has to do with local dealer influence. Here in Tucson Thoroughbred Nissan has a huge reach so you see Frontiers as everything from O’Reilly’s parts trucks to UArizona police trucks.

Nah, the Ford might be generic, but at least it isn’t scrunchy and angry.

It already doesn’t. When’s the last time you saw a late-model Tacoma that looked like this?