Just to clarify something on your last paragraph, I was not criticizing! I love these wacky contraptions people are creating!

This isn’t a recent trend. Modifying cars for shock value is as old as dirt. In the 50's, it was hot rods. The 60's through the 70's saw the birth and growth of lowriders. Rat rods became very popular in the 70's through the 80's. The 80's also saw the birth of the Bosozoku car culture, going crazy with Group 5…

Hoping bhtooefr is female... else... eeew.

I’m glad your club operated like that. I know that the club I tend to associate with that was organizing the C&C has a very strict no asshole policy. They are the only club I will go on any runs with because I know nobody’s going to be stupid and I’m not likely to end up by the side of the road with 30 other cars…

I am aware of the stereotypes that come with Scions (or any car club for that matter). IMHO, Scikotics is different. We have an annual meet that people come from all over the country to participate in. People who left the club because they sold their Scion still come. Yes, there are loud and flashy cars with fart…

Hearse enthusiasts are the best

Being a millenial, I’ve never grasped the appeal of a manual transmission. It reminds me of someone preferring a manual can opener to an electric one. Sure the manual one is more engaging and involving but I don’t really care. I could see if the owner was desiring to mod and tune the car, how a manual would be…

Cause moar is better

Otsuka hummed and was quiet for a second. He finally said that the current situation is “difficult.”

They probably do have a transmission that can take the torque given the EU market manual diesel, but they’d still probably have to change the gear ratios and go through EPA compliance for sales likely to measure in the hundreds. Mazda doesn’t have the luxury margins necessary for that to be profitable.

This is all Bull Chit corporate talk. The REAL reason they don’t do it, is because of corporate CYA thinking. Let’s say you are the product manager at Mazda. You brought in 2 CUV’s to North America, and skipped the manual turbo AWD brown wagons. Guess what- even if the CUV’s fail miserably in the marketplace, nobody…

“Really, I think it comes down to profit.” Sums up the entire article, really.

The real culprit is traffic! This is why you buy a manual: the curvy road. But those are never a constant, however spending an hour stuck in a see of red lights trying to get home is. After your left foot gets so tired you can barely get out of the car, you start questioning why I don’t have an auto.

Have you people SEEN the wagon?

This is the problem with ‘car enthusiasts’. They are 90% talk. For all of the people on this site who clamour about how they want a german, turbodiesel, AWD, 6spd manual, station wagon.. thats brown.. reality is these people are driving 10 year old used Hondas & Toyotas.. or whatever cheap car they can actually afford.

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The car enthusiasts clamoring for manuals in family sedans are like the serial abusers saying “Baby, this time it’ll be different.” Making a ruckus isn’t enough, people need to actually buy the damn thing. And buy it new, not 10 years later after it’s depreciated to nothing.

Eh, a lot of those are concepts. But this is far from ugly:

The Century isn’t so much the “flagship luxury model” of Toyota, it’s more like a specific car for a specific group of very powerful people that want a car to look a specific way.