Handbrakes are quickly going the way of the dodo bird. Even the 2016 Civic won't have a handbrake lever.

They have that new feature for inviting people to conversations... let's see if it works!

That is a pretty lame / sad attempt at trying to explain why a lease is a bad idea. I know there are certainly way better arguments for, or against, out there. I've never heard of this Dave Ramsey guy, and I'm probably dumber now because of it.

I've never even seen the movie, and as soon as I saw movie car in the title of the article,I assumed it was from that movie. With what little I know about the movie, and based on everyone else's comments, I'd have to say it performed it's role perfectly, and therefore was not terrible.

I love questions like this!

While I agree with your statement in general, in the context of this situation it is in complete bad taste.

I think Elon is completely full of shit. I don't like how he operates outside standard business norms. I think he is unethical and shady as all fuck. I dislike how so many Jalops uncritically cheerlead for Musk and Tesla.

Even with these tests being announced years in advance, designs and budgets are set years in advance also. I guess what I'm trying to say is, manufacturers will always be able to pass these tests at a good level, if they WANT to. It has to fit into their product lifecycles correctly and make sense financially.

It's not that surprising that the Mazda and Honda did rather poorly on this test, because the Pilot is at the very end of it's product cycle, and the Mazda is just in it's second year. You can bet that the 2015 Pilot, that will be all new, will do considerably well on this test, because they will have started…

This could quite possibly be one of the most useful articles ever when it comes to trying to convince someone that has never worked in the automotive industry how complex it is to "just sell a car in the USA"