They’re actually worse.

That was when the 1st gen of Saturn was released. My mom bought one (1993 SL2) and some kid in the parking lot of a grocery store ran into her car with a cart. 1 week after she bought it. But it didn’t dent, just like the commercial.

Oof, I can’t see an Ion without remembering Car and Driver’s original road test in which Frank Markus absolutely savaged the poor thing. They just tore it apart in the kind of journalistic hit piece that probably resulted from years of pent-up frustration at having to write semi-nice things about shitty cars. It was…

Start/Stop technology, and the inability to permanently turn it off.  You have to disable it every time you drive your car (at least on Toyotas).  It is annoying as fuck and I’m not getting any better gas mileage than my old car of the same model without the “feature”.

The lack of visibility. That seems to be widespread but isn’t really a feature. I have to crane my neck to see around my rear view mirror and all the sensors when going around on-ramps.

I wonder if they confused it with including other features. Just got a new VW and they did the usual attempt at finance upcharges, but the tires were rolled in with other things like gap, windshield, and whatever else I ignored all in one. Those all added to ~$45/mo together, but they didn’t offer those things…

Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend it unless you drive on roads like this (Rust Belt roads anyone?)

Mitsubishi sells just three FOUR cars in the U.S.: the Mirage, the Eclipse Cross, The Outlander Sport, and the Outlander.

One of my clients is a car dealer network with 26 Ford and Mazda stores throughout New England and Northern California. If one of the internet reps for any of our stores pulled this stunt, he or she would be fired in an instant.

This! The Fit Sport MT is an absolute blast to drive and gets great fuel economy. Parts are a plenty and well the Fit, fits everything!

Zesty is relative, and any car can be fun when driven at the limit.

“I had basically written off Nissan to the trash can after the shit they’ve been peddling year after year, but with the new Sentra being as good as it is and the potential this thing has to print money for them.”

Didn’t Mazda offer a pair of anemic engines for the longest time before coming back to their sense and bringing a Turbo on the top trim model that no one buys, because no one buys a Mazda over a luxury brand ?

The 2013 Cherokee is hideous. And not just because of the lights—that front overhang is, especially from the side, horrid.

AMC inline 6. Been around in one form or another for like 50 years and is known for being slow and torquey but basically unkillable.

Fuck me. I really like how this looks.

I will walk through the repo lot at the local credit union that I belong to (they have so many repos that they built and blacktopped a new parking lot just for their repo inventory)... and 90% of the vehicles in that lot came from the same dealer... easily identifyable by their license plate frames and stickers on the…

I was kinda like “Okay, o0okay, this is fine”

140 snakes?

That’s 138 more than killed Deadspin. 

Let me save everyone some time. Conclusions - traction control on: Audi slightly better. Traction control off: Audi more sloppy than the others. Trade-offs abound, and no real standout winner.

You’re welcome.