I liked the PT Cruiser when it came out. I was also in my teens at the time. My negative reactions to it now are more a reflection of their owners. They go on shopping sprees at Autozone, and whatever stores will sell things that Autozone is too classy for. Chrome stripping, plastic scoops, fake ‘Buick vents’, flame…

Team: How much Downforce should we give it?

In Living Color!

I remember the first time I saw one of those while stationed in Japan.

Neutral: Find a way to fit a 4x8 sheet of plywood or a dirtbike in the bed, nominal offroad ability, and a reasonable price. But even the Midsize trucks struggle to meet those requirements with tiny beds and not much thought to utility, it seems.

Every time my in-laws are in town (forever stuck in the 50s Rockabilly trend): “Old is not always Vintage”. 

All sizzle and no steak.

That’s all true and fine. No need to waste the Blazer name, then. Car and Driver have reported that GMC will be releasing a new ‘Jimmy’ to compete with the Bronco. (BoF, 4x4, etc). Why not save the Blazer name for the stablemate? It makes no sense to use it on this thing.

Body-on-frame 4x4 with available locking diff.

I hope the designers flatly refused to put any of that in this disappointment. It doesn’t deserve anything to imply it is related to the real Blazer of yore.

I can’t wait to see what they do with the Chevelle, Bel-Air, and Nova CUVs of slightly different sizes.

$5k? These are going to be the (generally) same guys asking $15k over list for the Veloster N. These will be staples of the lobby for whatever dealers get them.

Satire?

I actually got a response, they’re now calling it a “pricing error”:

Seems predatory. This same dealership will likely work out financing at 120 months to “get the payment where you need it”. They’re counting on a person without the wherewithal to understand what the price is supposed to be. Likely mentally compromised, to be honest. 

In what super-recession, post-apocalypse universe is the MSRP 50k on a Veloster?

Hyundai/KIA dealers have been oddly prone to this crap in my experience. When I bought my Genesis Coupe (as soon as they got off the first boat), I had to drive 10hrs to a dealership that wasn’t trying to cash in on $6k+ markups. These same dealerships had the same cars available 6 months later at MSRP, which is still…

“the Motor Trend Network, which used to be Velocity...”, which used to be SpeedVision, which used to be The Speed Channel.

It might be nationalist, but I always take a hard pass on a German that’s traveled 150k+.