I’ve been driving for almost 50 years (yeah, I’m old, ugly too). >120 cars spread out over nearly 50 years isn’t that many. Plus some of them were such heaps projects that they didn’t get too many miles on them.

Not that it matters, but after my successful defense, I went on to get a Master’s degree in biomedical science, a second Master’s degree in business (MBA in Finance and Marketing), and have been the founding CEO of three companies in a >35 year career. As far as ‘Koch Bros’, I’m a proud member of the Socialist party…

... and this comes as a surprise to anyone?

I think this is the ultimate Jim Hackett stupidity, another step in his insane campaign to turn Ford into a ‘mobility and truck company’. His wet dream seems to be electric trucks, and that’s what he thinks he has with this Mach E monstrosity.

My (late) mother-in-law was a left foot braker. Having her brakes done was a 2 to 3 times a year event for her. As well as replacing brake lights about as often, since they were on continuously when she drove.

The roads that existed in the 1940's in the New York area are pretty much the same ones we have today. It was possible to drive from LaGuardia into Manhattan back then simply because there were so many fewer people and cars.

Reasons I’d MUCH prefer a coupe version of the WRX to the 4 door -

But do any of them have a manual transmission?

Merde! I didn’t know it was gone. It’s too bad, I think it was the prettiest and most interesting car to come out of Peugeot in quite a while. 

How about the Citroen DS3 and Peugeot RCZ?

I say live and let live. There are so many different ways to have fun driving. Not everything has to be an intense ‘purists’ car. I personally would also much prefer an original Fiero to this, but whatever floats your boat. The point is to just have fun driving, and not give a crap what anyone else thinks. If you get…

It’s a shame to see how far Alfa has fallen. They used to make some of the most beautiful and desirable cars for true gearheads (albeit poorly made and unreliable). Sergio’s genus reduced them to a bizzaro-world SUV and a fast but ultimately uncompetitive sedan. Now this? Maserati EV’s? Arrivederci bella machina.

Merging to reduce costs through corporate synergy and collaboration was the right path forward for FCA.

But if this means we can finally get the Citroen DS3 or Peugeot RCZ in the US, it’ll be a plus.

Two people drowning in the water that cling together don’t save each other. They just drown faster.

In the early 1990's, I interviewed with Toyota (U.S.) for a job in product planning. I didn’t get the job. Their reason was that I was ‘too much of a car guy’.

RE 1st: The $454 Billion EV Plan

I hope this isn’t the Ford Probe 1980's all over again, with the ‘Mach-E’ being another foolish idea from Jim Hackett to slowly replace the Mustang with yet another SUV-abomination, this one combined with his ‘electric’ vision of the future.

A12 year old Porsche with 114,000 miles? That’s been “modified”?

A big second to NameIWillRegret’s suggestion of a Subaru BRZ.