Toyota Prius.

So long, some car! It was real that time I saw you at Costco. Though you might have been an acura or something. I didn’t bother to check.

$158/mi, ouch! I guess Tesla really is going the Porsche route and soaking buyers on the options.

in this order:

taste? it’s a lambo. Taste is over at McLaren Special Operations.

(I know this will NEVER happen but still)

It might be important to remember that this region of Japan hasn’t seen such a violent earthquake in something like 100 years. So there is the possibility that older housing and factory buildings contributed to the higher damage and death toll.

Alternate take 1. This will limit sales hurting local dealers. Meanwhile customers who would have otherwise bought a Japanese car at a lower price will now pay MSRP because of shortages.

Interesting, I wonder if they could get more people to upgrade if they broke down the $3000 payment into $100 or $200 per month chunks.

remember how the last gen XC90 passed the small overlap without any modifications? lol.

yep. the availability of collision avoidance and acing the small overlap test is what pushed us up into a Volvo from buying another fully loaded Subaru or Volkswagen in 2013.

I’m starting an investment fund, we’ll focus on buying up all the manual 997s, starting with the GT3s and RS cars. Eventually we will have an OPEC like dominance of the market and we will be cruel monopolistic bastards.

These trim levels sound like the house brands at grocery stores...

Dear Toronto,

I wonder what the possibility is of the Model S soldiering on, refreshed and updated periodically, like the VW Bus/911 did? Minimal tweaks and just keep pumping them out. Each year the profit margin rises a little more...

Basically, Mazda is poor, Mazda needs to meet emissions without hybrids, Mazda also needs more crossovers to boost profits.

“but I’d still take a Mazda6" right?!?! it’s not that the 200 was a bad car it’s just that no one chooses it voluntarily. Personally I’d rather have a Mazda6, or a Legacy, or an Accord.

What about Chrysler committing to being the “soft” brand. The comfortably tuned cross overs and large sedans for Americans.

You are stop on. I couldn’t get most of my family (west coast) to take a Chrysler off my hands for FREE. They lost the reputation game in the 2000s and it isn’t coming back. I’ll always remember getting a Dodge SUV thing for a rental in 2009 right after we had gotten a new Outback. It felt like a time machine to the…

Lack of faith? yep.