Yes, but because they were all (except Singapore and Hong Kong) built around cars, the pedestrian landscape isn’t as pleasant, and the intensiveness of automotive infrastructure means that having a car is hugely helpful/necessary, removing rail travel from the primacy it has in much of Japan. Certainly, they’re all…

There is a medium between Tokyo shitbox shoebox apartment and America McMansion megashitbox.

It’s important to remember that most of these regional commuter systems in Japan are owned by companies which can develop real estate around their stations. That means apartments, department stores, office space, etc. Japan is built around trains like the U.S. is built around cars. In any sufficiently large Japanese…

The pursuit of authenticity only leads to endless No-True-Scottsmen and strawman debates. We’re already so far down Fake Lane, why not embrace it?

And! It was a subcompact available as a WAGON. In America! Unfathomable.

Well, the alternative is to actually change the way people think about cars, which seems to be outside the power of everyone except advertising agencies. You’re not wrong in that it is kind of useless in a sense, but just like stereotypes exist for a reason, being able to play into people’s preexisting thought…

Don’t know where you read they based it off the previous Pacifica, but you clearly didn’t read what I (or they) said. It’s based off of the reliability ratings and ratings history of the rest of the brand. I’m not necessarily defending it, but we all know that non-car people judge cars by brand, and CR is trying to…

If you actually have a subscription to Consumer Reports, or look at their magazines, you’ll see that they generally ascribe reliability ratings to brand new models with an asterisk, indicating that it’s predicted reliability as determined by reliability history of previous models (if any) and of a brand’s other…

I don’t know why so many have been slow to adopt this change. If memory serves, BMW’s been doing this since the introduction of the previous generation 7-Series in...2009? Why isn’t everyone doing this on all of their now-numerous turbocharged V engines?

But that’s the point. For many (most?) people, price is paramount; the quality of the car doesn’t (can’t?) matter. That then begs the question of why they don’t just buy something cheaper, used, but as another poster said, for some people it’s new or nothing. It’s an especially nonsensical position considering how…

I’ve always wondered how NYC managed that. It’s the only city in the world that keeps most of (all of?) its metro open 24/7. Even most other cities which have some 24-hour service only offer it on some lines, instead of the whole network. Notably, none of the major East Asian metropolises with large populations and…

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,…