$20,000 to look like a god damned fool, a subject of derision to both cagers and (real) riders alike?

Toyota has the most beautiful excuses for continuing to use drum brakes.

It’s a veiled (or, rather, blatantly obvious) reference to everything Australian being upside down.

I’ve got one in the office parking lot right now. And this one is green.

That we’re a bunch of stubborn, opinionated assholes.

You’re one of the good ones.

Fucking THANK YOU.

I like them, because it keeps the overall dashboard from rising up to the rearview mirror and swallowing me whole.

Ah, yes, this fall. Hence why the media drives are already done. Oh. Wait. They aren’t yet. I’ll accept dates from OEMs, but I will hold them with grains of salt until people I know have driven it and confirmed that it exists and works.

I hope it doesn’t suck that much when it actually comes out.

Because that’s just a Honda PR stunt for a car that still has no firm release date. Wow, they’ve built two. Good for them. That’s one more than was at Pikes Peak. At this rate, they’ll have 100 by the time Ferrari’s released two more 488 GTB successors.

It’s one of the last “affordable” full-size sedans on the market. It’s incredible just how Lexus-y it is; I’d recommend one over the ES (similarly priced, albeit smaller) any day.

Using “as tight as humanly possible” as the recommended torque value for every single bolt on the car.

YES! I knew you’d come through with a beer for me. I didn’t see your post at first, and I got a little worried.

Didn’t stall it once on the first drive, tyvm.

I turn it off when I get a manny-tranny press loaner. Kills the excitement factor.

And I didn’t even stall it leaving the parking lot the first time. May have needed to bring the revs up to 3,000 to prevent that, but hey, greenhorns gonna greenhorn.

I used to start by bringing the engine up to 2-2.5k and slowly letting the clutch out. I probably sounded like a god damned fool to everybody around me.

Here’s how I learned stick:

NBC had better not fuck this up.