Yes. Yes yes yes. Please, Honda. Please give this to us and not another Acura bland-box.

I wonder if Johan had trouble playing GM’s internal politics, especially as GM keeps trying to have Cadillac compete with European manufacturers while also retain its traditional luxury buyers.

Wouldn’t it be great if GM had, say, another marque to fill one of those two roles? Something that evokes the past? The…

Indeed! It might cut down on the number of screens you have to go through at the pump. No, I don’t have a rewards card, don’t want a car wash, don’t need a receipt, don’t want your special deal of the day, don’t need to review the Voynich Manuscript, etc.

I have excellent memories of my dad’s mid-90s Trooper.

Pretty sure those custom plugs are just a socket splitter you can get from Amazon.

The track was already starting to crumble in 1981, less than 12 years after it was built (MRN has the last Cup race on its classic races podcast this week and it’s apparent nobody there is happy at all, and one of the turns is breaking apart at the apron of the track.) At the very least, the entire grandstands would…

Fantastic. More events at COTA can only be a good thing. IndyCar, are you listening?

Okay, maybe I’m the one without a brain. Still don’t think killing the Fiesta is a good idea but if they only kill it domestically it’s not the worst idea. The Escape shares a platform with the Focus & MKC, and the Edge shares a platform with the Fusion, Chinese Taurus, MKX, and MKZ. (Also the S-Max, which might be…

Was Alan Mulally the only person at Ford with a brain?

I still don’t get why companies use this dazzle camo on test cars.

They’ll do that, but if the insurance company accidentally sends the wrong VIN in for a salvage title after a truck is wrecked, trying to fix the problem is a multiyear saga.

I’m curious what (aside from the obvious holiday jokes) are the best NP and worst CP ever.

Agreed. Cut the price by a fifth, at borscht, and we’ll talk.

That’s a good point. Musk seems to have brought that “build it all ourselves” mentality over from SpaceX. When you’re creating new rockets basically from the ground up, in a business in which there’s maybe two competitors (who would prefer that you go away), you kind of have to do everything yourself.

When it comes to…

Oooooooh, that wagon is pretty.

You’re not wrong. I passed on the 2012 Fusion because the styling and features were so dated. Got a 2015 Fusion, but the 2018 Fusion had the same problem as the 2012 - it’s all out of date again.

My father is on his second Tata-era Jag in a row - only the second time he’s gone with the same marque in a row since having two Acura TLs in the early 00s. First was a 2011 XK and current is a 2018 F-Pace. He loves the way they feel and drive. I did drive the XK a few times and man, did it handle well. However, I…

It’s so close to being great. But the grille (especially Caddy’s godawful stretched logo) and the trunk ruin it.

It sounds like she was walking her bike across the roadway.

1st/2nd Gear - ARGH. The woman stepped out in front of the car! How many human drivers would have been able to react that fast?

3rd/5th Gear - Well, BMW, maybe you’d have more money to put into e-car research if you hadn’t been putting it into “clean diesel” and emissions defeat devices. Just a thought.

Reverse -…