Seems to be a lot of corporations shooting themselves in the foot these days (I’m looking at you, Washington Post). Ford really blew it for me — I’m enjoying my first Ford ever — a 2022 Maverick — and giving them a pass on the long list of little recalls. It’s clear that Ford builds a better, more thought-out truck…

Interesting that my local VW dealerhip is offering to pay me $30K trade in for my 2019 Golf R. I would take them up on it...if they had any damn thing I wanted to buy. I’ve been a VW fan for a while (yeah, go ahead and boo and throw garbage at me, I don’t care), but I think their “crazy offer!” speaks to the fact that…

Elon’s predictions have always been wildly optimistic, whether for Tesla or SpaceX. And he’s had some real disasters as well, including the Cybertruck and Full-Self Driving.

I remember a time when VAG was going all out to expand in China. Opening factories, “sharing” technologies. Now it seems the Chinese are eating some very delicious Schnitzel and enjoying a stein at VAGs expense.

Funny how things like that level of frustration can really trigger you. You’d think watching my dad take two weeks to die of a stroke - slowly losing himself piece by piece, day by day, in front of my very eyes until he withered away to a husk - would be my worst day. But somehow, it wasn’t.

So your worst day in 54 years was that you got sick? I don’t know whether to applaud or scold you. Count yourself lucky you haven’t had any actual hardships.

Kia Stinger (RIP).
Regular BMW 5 series/3 series

I’d go with normie compact cars like Corolla, Forte, Civic, Mazda3. Was in northern Europe a few weeks ago and the Corolla estate is a good size. Offer something affordable with just enough extra room to address people’s space/size anxiety.

If I can chime in, yes. The Magnum was an amazing vehicle.

But all you’d get out of a Corvette C8 wagon would be a taller engine cover.

I’ve always admired people who simply make what they think. Highgate Garages, take a bow:

Make all CUVs and SUVs boxy again.

With the acknowledgement that, as others have said, the correct answer is all cars, I really wish my 2018 Elantra GT Sport was a wagon

Not long enough.

The new hybrid Civic. So maybe lower and stretch the HRV and through the hybrid powertrain in there.

The new Jetta. It would be great to see a new version of the Alltrack as well.

I’ll take mine in the Performance trim please:

It looks like a Civic Type R that was dragged through every aisle of an AutoZone.

Counterpoint: No.

Not sure why you zeroed in on Crossovers though. Its not like its an exhaustive list of cars but if you open it up to sedans, you can get a model S performance which can do HYPERCAR levels of acceleration for under $35k. Theres 3 2019 Performance Model S’ for sale in the midwest for $35k or less. All have under 100k…