The door handle thing seems so absurd to me. It’s a part that has pretty much never had any failure issues in the history of the automobile (not counting mechanism stuff like the internal door pull), and they’ve managed to make it unreliable and heinously expensive to replace.
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My 300,000 mile 05 f150 5.4
This is the key to truly breaking through to EV and hybrid adoption in the Heartland. Make them have a real, huge benefit that people care about that you just dont get with conventional vehicles. I can see this thing having enough power to run a campsite for 3 days in luxury ive never dreamed of, or bringing the…
You do you bro, personally I can’t wait to get my hands on the new Teggy.
If you’re driving across the country and stop at a battery swap station, you get a different battery, one that might be more or less degraded than the one you leave there. If that dynamite Tesla guy just went to a swap station and swapped out his battery, his problem would be solved, but whoever picked up his battery…
Given the proliferation of SUVs & massive pickups, I think we are already well past the point of driving on roads that were not meant to handle the weight of the average car. I doubt the EV revolution will make that much of a difference.
Someone needs to do a well being check on the guy who’s putting in all that effort into trying to find an used EcoSport.
No, you’re right. Didn’t mean to sound like a pedant just never heard that one. I think the original Voltaire said “best” in that quote anyway
Unless Honda dropped 2 billion coming up with a carbon tub that could actually make the car light and safe enough to satisfy your inner child and meet crash regulations, you’d never get the exact thing you wanted. What you’re doing right now is what every muscle car boomer did when a new Mustang, Camaro or Charger…
I will never understand why the revived GTO that was a Pontiac-badged Holden Monaro gets the scorn it does. The GTO of the 60s was a Pontiac LeMans/Tempest with a performance package. It evolved into something sort of stand-alone in 1966 (in as much as a WRX ‘isn’t’ an Impreza) but was certainly a very pedestrian…
That doesn’t even make sense. The original Integra was always a fancy Civic from Japan. New one, close enough. The original Supra was Toyota’s flagship engine in a Europe-beating grand tourer package. Now it’s just European.
Contrary I don’t have a problem with the Integra as it is basically the same concept it was before. We will get an S or R version in the future. The Supra I’m a little saltier on because all the important bits are BMW and not actually Toyota. If the Supra was was it is built in house at Toyota it would be what it is…
My 88 Integra was a pretty boring and slow 4 door car with decent handling. The only excitement was that it was a 5spd manual and I once coaxed it up to nearly 120 on a loooong downhill in New Mexico with three sleeping passengers.
The Integra was always offered with 4 doors.
Honest question to those clutching pearls about this name (because clearly the issue is the name not the car, there would be zero articles if this with the ILWhatever)......what is the dividing point between ‘good’ revival/use of classic nameplate and ‘bad’?
Well, you’re in luck it’s not a crossover!
No. YOU don’t want it. I actualyl enjoy it and am plannign to trade a BULLITT for the Type-S when specs are shown.
Who cares though?
I think a lot of that je ne sais quois is from ancillary memories we associate with the car; winning with it in Gran Turismo, childhood afternoons watching it on Best Motoring, things like that. The new Integra may never spark those same memories for us, but that’s not really its fault -- we’ve just grown up and we…
Counterpoint - Manufactures are reviving nameplates expressly to profit off of your rose colored memories of that plate.