The Civic Hatch Sport, Sentra SR and Corolla Sedan SE all run in the $22k-$23k range before discounts and/or incentives. All of these vehicles contain more than enough creature comforts for your average buyer (adequate power, great fuel economy, keyless entry, CarPlay/AndroidAuto, FCW, LDP etc...) and can be had with…

It’s like they took the clean lines of the Ariya and beat it with an ugly stick containing the most forced Cadillac design cues.  Who’d have thought it’d be GM beating a Nissan with an ugly stick.  

It was the EPA ratings that the Energi family of cars got a ton of shit for early on, not mechanical reliability.

With the death of the Civic Coupe Honda will surely be positioning the Civic Hatch as it’s replacement.  That said I’m sure we’ll be seeing an Si Hatch for the 11G Civic.  There’s your car right there.  

It has more to do with it being one of if not the last mid/full-sizers that makes a solid amount of power with three pedals. I’ve driven the car and while the bones are solid it’s definitely too soft for the average enthusiast. If you’re looking at an Accord Sport 6MT be it a 1.5T or a 2.0T you’d be doing yourself a…

I could see that being the case in the Northeast though. Out here in SoCal it’s like 85%-90% 2WD. That said with the demise of the Fit on the horizon I’m sure they’ll stock more 2WDs in colder states now.  

Blame buyers and Honda for the Fit’s demise. The vast majority of HR-Vs sold are 2WD thus a Fit would “fit” their needs just fine and yet folks still insist on a higher seating position “because I feel safe”. The Fit is also a good $3k-$4k less than a comparable HR-V. Blame Honda because the lease on the Civic is…

Disagree. Infiniti has zero brand identity right now and if Nissan were to have launched the Ariya at a higher price point it’d have disappeared among the sea of Model Ys and Mach-Es which are about to flood our streets. Thing is while Nissan could always dissolve Infiniti if it came to it, the latter can’t survive…

Shit even the second gen Juke is a looker IMO.  Shame we don’t get the new car in the US because the new one is a huge improvement over the old one.  Nissan design has been on a roll lately Ariya included.  It’s just distinctive enough to stand out but refined enough to not be obnoxious.  

Just a heads up, while the car is still underpowered IMO the Limited also gets the 2.5L as well.  The Sport and Limited get the 2.5L while the Base and Premium continue on with the 2.0L.  

They still offer it on the current trucks depending on the trim level.  If the truck has a 40/20/20 bench it gets a column shifter, if it’s a non-lux trim (Lariat 501A and down) it can be optioned with a column shifter.  The motorized lever is a total gimmick.  Someone who’s gonna use the bench for work shouldn’t care…

Speaking as someone who owned a 2013 Sport 6MT for three years let me tell you, it felt a bit dated when it was new. Don’t get me wrong, there was a lot to love about the car but boy was I done with it and ready to move on when my lease was up. In three years I put 66k on my car so trust me when I say that I drove the…

They made less than 1,000 of them and were only built early in the CL Type-S’s first year of production. I’d bet Honda/Acura are planning to do something similarly limited here as a throwback to that car because we all know that while it looks cool in pictures, no one is gonna buy that thing and dealers will be…

Reminds me of Sundance Gold which was available on the CL Type-S.

For those who are wondering:

Having had the unfortunate pleasure of driving a Mitsubishi Mirage manual (and this was a new car mind you)...yeah...not true...like...AT ALL.

I feel like they included most of the equipment someone would want if he/she is in the market for a M/T G70. That said, I do wish the moonroof made the cut. What sucks is that the Canadian manual equipped G70s do get the moonroof while the US cars don’t.

Are we talking about performance applications, because FWIW, while everyone shits on them, the vast majority of CVTs get the job done just fine in your average commuter.

Even if they were to use a different model, I dunno if I see Toyota federalizing the drivetrain for us here in the US. If anything I’d bet that we get a Corolla Hatch or Sedan with around 200-240hp to go head to head with the Si, GTI and the Veloster N. I simply don’t see Americans dropping WRX money for a turbo, AWD…

Problem is for another $4,500 you can get a GT 301A Perf Pack Level 2. The HPP is a great car but once you spec enough factory equipment to make it a legit weekend warrior the price gap (or lack thereof) between it and a well-spec’d GT makes the latter a much more compelling argument.