I think it was production constrained in its early years. There wasn't a lack of demand until later, when it was sold as an Alpina with an automatic transmission, leading to the three year period it took to sell the leftovers.

45% fleet in 2012, the transmission, and Ford's quality free-fall will kill Focus residuals.

We took my friend's 2012 Civic sedan to go sailing once. Four adults and a yellow lab were all quite comfortable in the Civic along with a huge volume of coolers and gear. There aren't any other compact sedans from 2012 that would have measured up, even without worrying about economy, reliability, or features. When it…

Considering the Bentley is really a VW, what's the difference?

Exactly. I know two people that have 2012 Civics. Both are EX-L models, and both owners are quite happy getting well over 30 mpg while driving cars that are roomier than typical compact sedans and that bring no attention to themselves by having badly designed user interfaces or reliability issues. There were precisely…

It was so good that enthusiast magazines called it a Japanese Monte Carlo.

No doubt. That's also why I don't consider it a hot hatch. It is what it is, but it isn't useful enough to fill the roles required to be classed with GTIs, Speed 3s, Type Rs, etc...

Isn't the point of a hot hatch that it is practical as well as fun? The 500 Abarth certainly has the fun part covered, but it isn't much of a family car.

This list is a profound warning to anyone that might consider this board a source of automotive knowledge.

Especially when it comes to the Bentley Continental. It's for discerning people that can't tell they're paying triple rate on an unsalable VW so it'll have a fancy badge. That's the opposite of everything admirable about comportment.

Because Diversity.

There were tabloids, but their audience was far smaller and there was no professional core of sycophants to make sure 'people' had access to all the details of celebrities' lives that they can't be bothered with in their own.

Paul Newman was a much bigger star than Patrick Dempsey, and yet people were able to control themselves in his presence over decades of sports car racing. Contemporary people aren't worth a bucket of spit relative to those of even 20 years ago.

JD Power hasn't been rating cars for quality(1981) as long as Jaguar has had a terrible reputation. I remember reading Used Car Buyers Guides for E-types in the late '70s that already warned of all the pitfalls of Jaguar ownership, and they involved practically every aspect of the car. Throughout the '70s and '80s it…

Don't over exert yourself on my account.

Why do you think he received a paid vacation for sexual harassment? Unions are the problem.

How does when they pulled the Kobe project have anything to do with how long it takes them to decide to pull something from their site?

I don't get it. Leaves Tuesday, spends Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the beach, flies home on Sunday. Isn't that 4 days at the beach?

Jokes on him, since they only gave him 4 days paid vacation. With travel days, he'll only get to spend 4 days on the beach instead of the 7 he'd get with 5 days paid vacation. That will teach him!

It is in the world of unionized civil servants. Maybe if he does it again, they'll buy him tickets to Cancun and pay for his hotel room too.