Unfortunately, to hit the price point that makes this interesting you'd have to avoid the 25% Chicken Tax and it would therefore likely need to be made in the United States (unless Hyundai has some other way around this).

There's a proud tradition of action shifting automatic in ads

I dunno, the Explorer actually makes a lot of sense for a cop car, figure space is more important more of the time than outright speed since most of the time they don't end up in chases. Except maybe in LA.

Yup. Brakes and front ends were blowing up right and left.

The transmissions and brakes on those were proof that Dodge is on the side of the speeders.

That's not America, This is America!

Yes, that's right: I could've had a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, some sort of cool vintage car, an Aston-Martin, a Bentley, a Porsche … and yet I told everyone I was driving around in a 11-year-old GMC SUV with an interior that looked like it was made from Wal-Mart deck chair plastic. Occasionally, I think back on these…

They keep watching for a hole, then it's there and they don't go any faster.

That maneuver at 1:20 is New England favorite.

It's becoming the same way in Craigslist ads. More and more, I've noticed that Craigslist sellers are obscuring their license plates in ads, either with a piece of paper, or a rag, or a towel, or — more recently — with their finger, held directly in front of the camera to block out the plate number.

Relevant

It's kinda like Fiat Multipla in that respect, but at least that has another set down below.

There's something profoundly upsetting about headlights up there.

I expect a 1UZ in this Sportage next.

The dragonners are thinking "that's messed up, dude"

Mercedes does great in this regard by offering high quality footage of C, E, S Class production without any distracting music.

My neighbor's still got one, it sounds like a tractor but it's always idling outside the house since there's never any telling if it'll start again the next time.

Most of the romantic ideas people have about Italian cars, particularly the volume bread-and-butter like this, come from places that don't have them for sale.

That pales in comparison to the New Beetle-mania of the late 1990s when the completely revised car moved more than 83,000 units in 1999. The current Beetle hasn't exactly lit the market on fire the way the New Beetle did.