I do outdoorsy stuff that involves roof racks so my Outback is about as tall a vehicle as I can deal with anymore- loading a 70 pound canoe up onto an SUV sucks, and tying them down isn’t fun either.

Because automotive performance is more than just “stuff big engine in big comfy truck.”

I had a 76 cutlass supreme and I will point out 2 issues that a driver of modern cars wouldn’t know about:
1: Those doors. They are soooo long that they make opening them in a crowded parking lot difficult- like, you can open the door but what you end up with is a tiny crack that slowly widens someplace far behind…

Less a type of car than a look, but here goes:

Except for one thing: our middle aged Gen Xer hates the trunk. She can’t fit that cool MCM chair she found at the thrift shop in the trunk, it doesn’t hold her bike and it gives her nowhere to sit and change her shoes after a ride. She ends up with a crossover because that crossover makes it easy to go to IKEA with no…

4-door hatchbacks need to make a return. Not wagons, not tall wagons, just good old 4-door hatchbacks. I think the sedan is dying for a reason, and that reason is, trunks are stupid and inefficient. SUVs and crossovers get bought because we all need a car that will do everything and that big ol’ hatch makes them crazy…

I mean, that’s the new mercedes AMG thingy...

I mean, we pretty much did get rid of them. And what’s left, leaf blowers and yard tools are getting phased out pretty quickly.

Uh, where do you get 70?

Thank god someone finally made a controllable, comfy 700hp truck. I mean, sure, it’s going to be 70 in Wisconsin in November this week but thank god for that 700hp comfy, controllable truck. The west is burning up faster than it can grow back, Florida is getting hit with bigger and bigger storm surges but finally,…

I don’t mean to sound harsh, it’s just that projects like this are bullshit. It’s easy to build a $3,000,000 car. Because you have no limitations and you can do whatever you want. I’m no longer impressed by these things because you can’t push the envelope if there is effectively no envelope to push.

I knew a guy who had one of those, took it to the dealership and had the holes for the front licence plate removed because in Wisconsin, he was able to convince the DMV that since it didn’t have holes he didn’t have to have a front license plate.

The Chevy Monza I had in high school was an absolutely gorgeous car- the lines were so pretty, that front end was sooo cool to look out over. Just a really beautiful little car. Probably one of the prettiest cars GM has ever designed.

I’m sorry but I just can’t. This is the dumbest idea in the history of stupidly expensive cars. I haven’t had a visceral reaction like this to something in a long time, but this thing just makes me angry. Angry that it exists. Angry that almost a billion dollars will be spent buying these useless things, angry at the…

It was, but that was also part of it’s... charm? It was a very basic, very utilitarian little box.

Because there are a lot of folks like me who don’t really need an open bed but do want a cargo area that’s easy to sweep out. Side note: why does my Outback have a carpeted floor in the cargo area? Why does it have a soft fabric easily scratched and snagged headliner? That’s what was great about the Element- throw in…

To be fair, my friends who had babies and Elements said the doors were not great for getting kids in and out.

100% disagree. “Lack of power” is just the acceptable answer. It didn’t sell because it looks like a minivan and it does not in any way shape or form look cool, overlander-y or butch. And sadly, most American men don’t have big enough balls to drive something that doesn’t look butch. It’s got a smiley front end, it…

I mean, it has the same suicide doors as a Honda Element so technically not a 2 door.

But, and I say this with all due respect, Pontiacs were all horrible plastic covered garbage. Also, 100% agree on the solstice, I think it and it’s saturn doppelgänger were the prettiest convertible made in the last 20 years.