This is awesome! We're all relishing the day when they retire ALL the numbers, and can't ever field another miserable, overpaid "team".

Naw. The thing is just a mess all around. Heck, even the more pedestrian Edmund's long term test group has one, and they seem to have a hard time finding anything to compliment about the driving behavior, especially on the street.

There are a ton of shitty sports which I would only watch if there WERE cheer-leading.

Too much CG. Not enough real.

I'm 99% certain that the reason Holden had such success down under, was that GM had almost no involvement (interference) with that brand. When GM properly gets involved, they make shitty cars, and even worse marketing and business moves.

Good Lord, Honda shit the bed with the Acura brand.

Gearing. Plain and simple.

I guess. But even that was still just a mediocre rendition of the captain of all junky cars with a big turbo: the Neon SRT4.

These aren't polite, not terribly powerful Honda four-bangers. These are more heavily tuned, turbo-charged motors, hooked up to efficiency-robbing AWD systems.

...but hardly surprising. Until GM makes a $25K Corvette model, there won't ever be anything from them to care about.

Ford is, and will continue to marginalize the value of something like a FI four-banger, when they still offer and place their own highest regard on the 5.0 V8. It would be a little similar to BMW selling a turbo four M3 alongside a free-revving V8 powered M3. Most things being equal, we all know that we'd opt for the…

Actually, the hats are normal sized. It's their heads which are abnormally tiny, due to extreme malnourishment.

I could be wrong, but I don't believe those cars have forced induction, and the requisite additional water/air & air/air radiators.

Someone should shove a nice greasy Philly cheese-steak in her mouth. And then a second one up her pooper.

You just showed three ancient cars which don't meet any current standards. And the fourth is an under-powered one which doesn't need much in the way of fresh air.

The Lexus brand is as close as you're going to get, but still far off from the Germans. Not sure where you live, but here in Los Angeles, you'll see one Lexus LS for every 20-30 German cars, in a top-tier restaurant parking lot. Again, this says nothing of my opinion of the quality of any of the brands, per se, but…

Exactly. Or one step further, as their brand cache hasn't really grown much (neither have Acura's or even Lexus' for that matter) in the decades that they've been around - they should simply continue to target the mid-upscale Japanese car buyer. Keep Nissan branded products the more affordable, FWD models. Infiniti…

You've got a typo there. You said "5 years" but I believe you intended to say "5 minutes".

Plus. FUCKING FLYING!!!

Yeah, I'm not sure I agree at all. Perhaps, you personally have one with a refined transmission. But I actually own a '09 and even with every single tweak and update, it's still a really, really poor performing transmission. And if you look at the longest running threads on the G forums, a clear majority of avid…