This is a great review! I agree with you about the exterior and interior design being a step backwards with this car. I always thought the previous gen was one of the best looking cars in its segment, and it has a nice interior too.

THANK GOD THE BEAK IS DEAD!!!

Ditch the mustache

Given the switch from the full-time, rear-biased Quattro to this new part-time, front-biased Quattro-lite, it would seem Audi doesn’t really want to sell me a car, period.

Ditch the mustache!

NO ALISSA.

If it needs an instructional video, you’re doing it wrong.

Then why the hell is this shit codger’s creepy, ugly mug still plastered on the front page of a North American website?

Koala

2002 Lincoln Continental Concept

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IDK if it’s just me or what, but...

That’s what I was thinking, too - clamping the baby seat between the front and rear seats. Which would be weird. But after rewatching along with careful consultation of the other comments on this post, I think the feature is actually designed to allow third row access even with a rear-facing car seat (which takes up…

“Oh! Nope,” she says, watching the baby seat immediately get pressed up against the back of the fronts. “Baby’s getting squished. That’s not good. It’s not supposed to hit the back of the driver’s seat.”

But if it's not supposed to hit the back of the driver's seat, how does it form a wedge?

I don’t understand the baby-squishing feature... what problem is this supposed to solve? Are you telling me the intent is to keep the baby from getting squished, and this is accomplished by... moving the seats together until they squish the baby? WTF, why not just leave the seats alone? Seems like more technology for…

“Our challenge is relevance.”

More practical and, despite being a minivan, a hell of a lot better looking than the Koala.

Right, how’s that Focus Electric doing?