They would sell about 6,000 of these and never gain back the cost to get it crash tested. Just a reminder, Ford sold/sells something like 4,000 Focus RS’s a year. Hot hatchs are a hard sell in America. 

I would buy a Veloster N. In fact, I might some day.

There’s one down in the parking lot:

I have always hated subaru interiors. They are either clustered garbage or there is absolutely nothing. They’re so bad that the only way I would ever own a subaru is if it was a purpose built track car.

I mentioned the Fiesta too.

As awful as the FIAT 500 interior materials are, the horrid design of the Fiesta interior is why we went with an Abarth 500 instead of a Fiesta ST.

Only the lowest trim comes with the tiny screen and keypad now. But whoooo-boy are you right about build quality. My 2019 ST was delivered with part of the dashboard straight up missing.

I believe the traditional opening to this sort of reply would be "Patrick, you ignorant slut."

Click on ‘Pending,’ then ‘Show Pending’ to see your post (this one is no longer grayed-out).

Urgh, wife and I were picking our way through the Mercedes C-Class catalogue yesterday and I swear the colour range is two whites, two blues, a red and about 20 variations on grey ranging from white, other white all the way through to black.

Problem with that theory is that blue and red paint pigment is way more expensive than silver, white and black. What manufactures need to do is focus on the gloss of the colours. The Silver on the new NSX looks extremely wet, and doesn’t make you think you bought the base model paint.

I wish they’d make gray and silver optional charges; they could still have blue and red as base colors which are acceptable to the straights, but make it an extra cost to have gray or silver and then fleet buyers will quietly drop it and we’ll have a step towards interesting cars again.

Don’t cut yourself on that Edge.