Just FYI, the Outlander Sport outsells the CX-3, by a nearly 2-1 margin, according to GoodCarBadCar.net. Just goes to show that people in America truly do not care about how a car drives...or looks, or is finished, or apparently anything more than (probably) lower transaction prices, space, and crossoverishness.

You really shouldn’t expect more, though. The cheapest 365hp Stinger is just a hair under 40k, just a few thousand more than the cheapest V8 Charger (which it is almost certainly likely to be more refined and feature-rich than), neck-and-neck with the cheapest V8 300, and a few grand less than a Taurus SHO; these are…

Kia is only 1/3 owned by Hyundai. They may cooperate together, and they may both ultimately answer to that automotive apathete, Chung Mong-koo, but they are not just brands.

Didn’t say it was dangerous. However, it does in fact require all those things, which trains don’t, at least not to the same scale. Given the reduction in passenger numbers carried by each Hyperloop module, I do have to wonder if the overall capacity is smaller; I’m inclined to believe that it is, as most high-speed…

The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line, and in fact, most high speed rail lines in the world, would like to inform you that building on elevated viaducts is a thing for trains, too.

...So what? It’s cheap to build anything in northern Colorado and Wyoming. You know why? There’s nothing there—no pre-existing infrastructure to work around; no people to claim compensation for property, demand noise abatement, or rerouting; you name it (besides, I don’t know, bison and cow ranching), and that sector…

You make a couple of different points, which I agree with separately, but make no sense together.

Working at a local hospital, I’m with you many hundreds of percents. So many of these people need help that, I’m sorry, but someone being “accosted” by a homeless man—who most likely wasn’t armed with anything—while in an SUV that costs many times what I, as a nurse’s aid, make in a year, is bullshit.

Frankly, I’m loving this Meh Car series. Also, I’m starting to realize how much I love Meh Cars generally. The second gen Oldsmobile Aurora, the Plymouth Breeze, all Kia Spectra models, the second generation Mazda 626, the Mitsubishi Diamante...I could go on and on and on. Maybe it’s because as a child of the ‘90's,…

I’m aware that right now, when an essentially-avowed KKK supporter is president (legally speaking, anyway), would be an especially bad time to restrict free speech. It’s just a shame that freedom from violence should be a political issue. Arguably, it always has been, but I don’t see why it always need be, and now…

Honestly, I do understand this line of reasoning. However, defending one class of persons’ right to free speech and assembly when another class has far more basic rights—e.g., the right to freedom from violence and coercion—which are frequently violated seems like putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable, if you…

Ok, so let’s assume that you’re right—and frankly, I don’t necessarily disagree with the idea that violating rights is violence. What, then, should a disempowered group—in this case, people of color, LGBT people, women, the poor, or religious minorities—do when the group in power—in this case, fairly wealthy, white,…

Granting it’s been my only car ever, I’ve had a ‘06 Forester since ‘14, purchased with 118k on the odo. I haven’t had any major issues; had to replace a catalytic converter recently, but at least in terms of the engine itself, there hasn’t been any trouble. Granting that I’m pretty sure it was previously owned by an…

By this logic, could I conceivably be holding a bottle of wine outside the window, and it would be ok?

Don’t remember using the word “conspiracy” anywhere, nor did I mean to imply it. Just mentioning the styling rut that the automotive design world seems to be in. Nothing’s changed much for either brand for years at this point, and a lot of marques use such similar motifs that we have to discuss who started using…

Finally, someone saying that someone ELSE copied the Koreans, and not the other way around. Not that I necessarily consider it copying, but it is funny that Audi’s new design language is in fact Hyundai’s slightly not-new design language.

No, but it’ll provide a pretty entertaining way of making sure you don’t get to the stage of your life where dementia could be a problem. Just add water—snow, rain, slush are all fine. Pick your accident cause, and smile as you careen into a tree at 7000RPM and 70MPH.

Well, they are selling in the same markets to the same consumers, so why should they all be so wildly different, especially when different is usually expensive and often a failure? They have a few unique models: there’s no Hyundai equivalent to the Soul, no Kia equivalent to the Veloster or the Genesis Coupe.

Hyundai only owns about a third of Kia. They’re basically cooperative enterprises at this point.

I imagine that his superpower involves playing ice hockey in a really friendly way with the villain, while politely giving him lots free maple syrup so as to give him diabetes. I mean, anything harsher than that would just be un-Canadian, eh?