Except the shop didn’t keep the car. A recently hired employee bought it. It seems like a lot of people commenting here are assuming two incorrect things that are clearly stated in the article.

What TJ had a bent grille?

It’s most likely smaller in every direction than America’s most popular vehicles.

Heck it’s welded , painted, and assembled on a totally separate line. They don’t want the blood mixing.

Quality: “Customers are complaining about paint shipping on their bumpers.”

Don’t go forgetting the origin of the name. Back in the day, when King Arthur was near-mortally wounded at the battle of Camel or something like that, he was secretly rushed away to heal on a peaceful, fruitful(literally) secret island named Avalon.

In my previous role, I dealt a lot with equipment safety in manufacturing. When designing processes, the first priority was safety. Even though we had redundant electronic safeties in place, they were never intended to be used, and if they failed, a person shouldn’t be injured.

I know that that this is not what people want to hear, because we’re all supposed to be woke, emotionally available, and uncompetitive now, but top athletes like Kimi can be total psychopaths when they’re “in the zone.” There is a high level of emotional and mental preparedness that athletes like him often have to go…

Very soon after this, Ford launched an ad campaign that the F150 achieved its safety rating on ALL CAB SIZES in one of those big bold letter macho commercials.

Not me, but my brother, 2 years younger than me.

These are literally pre-production prototypes. What you see here is what will be available on the vehicle.

Is that a bad thing? I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

I went through this when buying a farm truck two years ago. That was the exact age range I was looking at. The majority of what I saw with that kind of mileage either had or needed a new engine or transmission or needed one of the two rebuilt. If it didn’t mention that in the ad, that was the actual case when I went…

“Oh, I don’t expect it to be cheaper, but I do expect it to be more modern.”

That’s a fair point. I should have said the grade of the interior was specified to be Scion level. It was designed for global, but they chose seats, dash materials, and available options (pretty much none) for it based on it being sold as a Scion, and didn’t change those things when they swapped the badge out for a…

So expect unibody, CVT or 8+ speed auto, and 4 wheel independent suspension?

I does look like a toned down Civic, but it’s hard to make a call like that these days.

I drove a rental Mazda 3 recently. I know rental cars are often base/stripped models, but the interior was shockingly cheap to me. It had rattles everywhere and only 7k miles.

Keep in mind that the outgoing iM’s interior was designed to be in a Scion, which meant intentionally lower quality.

Never mind that this car is a new body and powertrain on a new platform.