Grifting for the Russians has always been the wildest one to me. Didn’t conservatives spend the last 50 years saying “the Russians are coming to take away our big cars and suburban homes!”, and now they turn around to say their government is great and nice and Putin is the coolest guy ever?

Wow, VW i.dX, now with 110% more gloss black plastic inside! Where has German car design gone?

I mean, even dating back to the hilariously shoddy harnesses on the old 700 series cars...

Well, considering the XC40 EV/C40 is on the CMA platform and made in Ghent, Belgium while the EX30 is on the SEA2 platform and made in Zhangjiakou, China, I’d say there are many more differences between the two than just software. They’re barely even related at all.

Right, but I guess what I was alluding to is that GMC has somehow positioned itself as a luxe truck brand where all others have failed. The Lincoln trucks failed, the Escalade EXT failed, yet GMC trucks on. 

I mean, completely driverless I-Paces currently ferry people around most of West LA and central Phoenix. I doubt this would work for long-distance trips but for a set radius within a city center? The tech is very much already there and being used.

and GMC. Why do we need a luxury truck brand again? I guess because it sells. 

No, the best one was the Holden ZB Commodore variant because it was the only one globally to get the V6 in the wagon bodystyle.

Obviously to each their own, but I can’t see the Supra without seeing the FT-1, and in that context the Supra feels like a lumpen and mediocre attempt to superimpose this body onto a platform it was never intended for.

We used to have the handle of a shovel in the back of our old Volvo 740s for exactly this purpose. It conveniently doubled as a prop for the trunk. 

Ah, good ol’ Subaru. 21st century features with 20th century implementation.

Sadly no longer sold in America, but the Fit was all things to all people, filling the gap left by the three-door Civic hatches of yore. It fulfilled the brief of cheap, reliable transportation while also being massive inside and nicer on the highway than most subcompacts. I even saw one with a Trump flag flying out…

I don’t see the Skoda Felicia here!

Oh you know, because the nearest one in a 50 mile radius is new-old stock and costs almost $15k more than a WRX.

These were designed by a gay man, Bryan Thompson.

I just think it’s hilarious when people think that high profile thefts or poor quality cars can doom a company that represents a massive part of a country’s auto industry. I mean, if that were the case GM would have gone bust decades ago.

If worst meant ‘ugliest’, definitely. At least the new base Fords look cool.

But remarkably, it was body-on-frame and therefore 100% more of a ‘real truck’ for all those angry commenters out there. 

Oh no, an inexpensive expendable on a car-based ute that 90% of the time works exactly as it should! Everyone should definitely get the massive heavy ‘real’ pickup instead!

It’s definitely a ‘do it all, but not for all’ kind of car. I really recommended my empty-nesting parents get one as it’s exactly what they needed—small bed for dirty hiking or scuba diving gear, soft-roading capability for those National Park dirt roads, and unibody for long-distance road comfort and mpgs.…