Oh god, you’re right. I guess we’ll see them on Craigslist in three years instead of ten.  On the plus side, in thirty years, there will be plenty of junkyard V6 Chargers to keep the RTs running.

But this is Jalopnik, where we have too much good taste and not enough money for a new V6 Charger (check back in ten years on Craigslist). We are not the target market.

Well said. I really want to throw the verb version of effect and the noun version of affect into the mix, but they’re so rarely used that it’d be a dick move. Andrew, just listen to tbp0701.

I don’t think the STs ever really created a halo effect for the lower trim Foci and Fiestas. Don’t get me wrong, I like them well enough (I drive a Focus SE 5spd), but the STs are seen as upgraded economy cars. Not so with a Charger. The most bargain basement rental spec still seems like a muscle car, just one that’s…

Send them to an austere tent city in Texas?

I applaud the removal of the fake fender vents. There’s still a line there, so it’ll be easy for the third owner stick their Pep Boys junk on with good alignment, but thankfully we won’t have to see that for ten years.

Funny, my first thought was that I couldn’t tell whether it was the back of an Audi or a Kia...but Lexus works too.

Holy shit, I had to look for a good five seconds to figure out that that wasn’t actually Kavanaugh.

TMMK would beg to differ about Lexus not just making nice Toyotas. There’s a reason the new Camry, Avalon, and ES always arrive in quick succession.

God dammit, I am trying so hard to chuckle silently at work.  Well done.

Cadillac, hmm... You need two things:

So when are we going to talk about the training wheels?

The best way to get American-built cars to sell in Japan is to forget the idea of American brands selling in Japan. Convince Toyota to let their Texas plant handle all global body-on-frame production (they already build the Tacoma and Tundra), and ship a few Land Cruisers back to Japan. And maybe move RAV4 production…

Savage

My mom bought a used VW Phaeton. It’s fantastic when it’s out of the shop, however briefly. Many of the pros and all of the cons one would expect of owning a cheap used Bentley.

Coolness is subjective, but sedans used to be objectively fairly practical. Now, due to aero requirements or styling or both, trunk lids are a third of the length of the trunk. If you need to toss a decent sized box into the trunk, even if it’s smaller than a sedan’s trunk, you’re stuck with a CUV because the hole in…

I’ve had more trouble with traditional GPS units than Google Maps on my phone. Google Maps doesn’t go all to hell when it’s cloudy or if I drive between skyscrapers in downtown Chicago.

Pssst, Cadillac... just make the next ATS coupe a liftback, and snag some would-be hot hatch buyers. That’s all I fucking want. Give me a decently sporty ride that can handle two of the large 18x18x24 moving boxes from Lowes, and still squeeze into a street parking spot in busy neighborhoods. I don’t have kids or a…

4th Gear: Sorry, Hyundai, I don’t follow. How does graphene symbolize hydrogen?

Don’t forget TPP and the Paris Climate Agreement.