This should be the number one answer, with links to Torch’s old articles about it and their awful responses.

They’re saying, regardless of interest rates, then the unlabeled pronoun should be inflation I assume, so: “We think the market will sell about the same number of new vehicles regardless of the exact path of [interest] rates - assuming [inflation] does not get worse than the Fed is projecting.”

Aw, I missed the question on this one. I’d’ve said a Saturn S-series.

I’d say the wedge design of 80s cars - DeLorean, Trans Am, kind of thing - but I want to limit myself to stuff that would still pass muster for current-day safety regulations. So I’ll echo what someone else said - interesting colors. Forest green, purple, TEAL, bring back the audacity of color palettes from the 90s…

Plan to EITHER

I cannot wait. I streamed Battletech on my 1060 and I was getting like 3FPS in an urban environment at times. Had to stop the stream early because I was getting sick.

I love that the Altima photo is with an awful parking job.

Yeah, I feel like the backwards market hit their operations hard, because they seemed genuinely better when people got them prior to early 2021 when the market flipped upside down.

Reverse: I got my Volt from Carvana in early 2020. I didn’t finance through them so it took a lot more hoop jumping to get things set, and the delivery was pushed back a week, and they didn’t know the delivery area well enough and had us meet them at what they thought was a public post office but was actually a…

I photograph cars at a dealer for a living. I hate when I get used Mazdas because of the dial, and I feel like they aren’t even consistent with its implementation so I have to relearn it each time.

There are one or two ELR owners in the Volt subreddit. Really rare vehicles but we love having them in the community. It was a solid car, but was overpriced and, yeah, poorly marketed.

You can’t complain about crunch and quality issues one year then complain about releases getting pushed back the next.

That and their coverage of the same new couldn’t be more dissimilar.

Interesting that Autopian got there - their first press trip, a month into going live!

2001 Saturn SW2, forest green: The Gordmobile. (Was dubbed such when my Dad had it, with the GORD license plate. Name stuck when it was passed down to me.)

MERCEDES YES

Reverse: Nothing, I already have a PHEV and love it. I’ve bought gas twice this year, each time around five gallons’ worth.

I mean, the jerry cans on the Warthog have been a visual detail since...

You know, I’m impressed with how their PR is handling it. “Yes, there was a leak; it wasn’t final footage; an official preview is coming soon.” Instead of just ignoring or trying to actively suppress it. (Aside from the video takedown, clearly.)

Andy, gonna give you a lot of credit for this - you wrote a slideshow in a way that still told a story and kept me interested to click forward through them sequentially instead of just looking at the slide list and picking outa couple of interest to me. If this is a portent of your QOTD slideshows in the future - or,…