I just checked for the Netherlands. The Challenger with a 6.2 V8 apparently has CO2 emissions of 392 g/km. Not sure if that’s merely an SRT or an actual Hellcat. Anyway, a 2021 vehicle that inefficient would result in carbon taxes of over €100k. I could import one right now though, as long as I’d pay those taxes.

Huge sellers too, globally. But it's a incredibly generic and forgettable car.

workers aren’t actually entitled to profit sharing

I find your perspective of ‘old VW’ odd. VW has been known for colourless and bleak generic but decently built cars for many decades. Sure, the V10 diesel and the Phaeton stood out, but they were like a drop in the ocean when you look at VWs yearly volume.

Ugly obese mole-rat aside, can anyone west of the Atlantic identify the donor car of the taillights of that mobility scooter vehicle thing on the right?

I saw the lead picture of this article and thought it was a joke. It turns out it is real. I wonder what GM was thinking smoking.

Remember all those posts about how Tesla didn’t know how to build cars? Well, it looks now like Tesla does and GM doesn’t.

The Buick of that era of Regal does not exist any more. That Regal is a rebadged Opel, and GM has sold Opel since.

Here is the second paragraph from the article (emphasis mine)

21st century Alfas tend to be reliable. Not Corolla reliable, but reliable. It's been mostly the press fleet of Giulia QVs that had issues. Which is something we should totally blame on FCA. But the idea that modern Alfas are unreliable POS is just wrong.

That’s exactly it. Many, if not most new automatics are amazing. Especially compared to the automatics of yore. But, they are still automatics. A manual is simply more entertaining. There is no comparison.

The mk4 -> mk5 Mitsubishi Eclipse

There's no reason to get around this, as it's been allowed since the early 90s. Even red rear Markers, as long as they are integrated in the taillight. I believe Jason's article mentioned this as well.

I kind of want to install a third brake light on my 1987 Peugeot 205 convertible. Mostly because the car is tiny, the lights in general are tiny and there are no dedicated brake lights. So, for safety reasons.

While driving this car, I can assure you it will not feel slow. And that’s the whole point. This car is meant for corners and back roads, not for drag racing.

1980s Fiesta, as in the mk1 (1976+) Fiesta? It was a direct competitor I guess.

They do both have 4 wheels. That is correct.

To be fair, the swiveling headlights came with the 1967 facelift. In the 50s it looked like this. Still though, the DS is a car that should be on every ‘ahead of its time’ lists.

That’s a pioneer as well. The Cord L-29 was FWD and came out in 1929, but that was relatively traditional. The Cord 810 was released in 1936 (2 years after the Citroen) and was much more modern than the L-29, but unlike the Citroen it was an unreliable sales flop. It also had ‘only’ front independent suspension, and…

Citroen Traction Avant. Introduced in 1934, it had: