Yeah, but it still counts for something to invent a segment and sell millions of copies. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it inherently irrelevant and terrible. The history books are full of bad cars that made their mark. 

The Neon was no bad car, and no one had the minivan formula down like Chrysler did. Took everyone else 20 years to come to the same FWD box-on-wheels conclusion that ChryCo had right out of the gate. The longitudinal FWD cars were decent for the money too, and had quality interiors.

sedan?

meh, Subaru got to it 20 years earlier

They were actually pretty good at it until Daimler decided everything needed to cost less.

Isn’t there ‘Toyota tax’? Also new Toyotas have been having quality issues—anecdotal, but my mom’s friend just had her 2023 Camry blow a radiator hose and lose all its coolant. For a lot of poor folks on a limited income, a new car that’s available on a dealer lot that day without having to search through pre-owned…

A ‘perfect’ car (i.e. best at being a ‘car’, which let’s not forget, is a transportation means to get from A-to-B) should be reliable, good on gas, spacious, and fast enough so...

Have you tried not driving it? I think that’s recommended in the owner’s manual.

But will this always be a problem? IDK, to me it’s always seemed like a ‘it’ll get solved as the tech gets better’ sort of things. Smartphones catching on fire used to be all the rage, but you never hear about that nowadays. 

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.