The Ford Focus and Fiesta were pretty solid cars except for that one generation of Focus from 08-11. That thing was a stinker.

Is there no legislation in the US for dog breeders?

Even ignoring the association issues that others have more than covered here, I saw this little revisionist trope:

That is nice and all, but we all know that this:

It might be only being used to fuel injection and my young age of 39 and my relatively temperate climate, but I have no experience with any of this.

You don't need a driver's license to identify yourself. He will have an ID and/or passport.

That is kind of strange though. How do you define a religious exemption? How do you differentiate between a legitimate and illegitimate religious exemption? And how is a company supposed to make the distinction? It’s all rather subjective.

In our benevolent overlords’ favored EV future, the sub $30K shopper will be driving something Chinese with 150 miles of range, or will be driving something used.

I guess it would make sense to lump cars and SUVs into the same category. Pickup trucks too, when not used as work vehicles. Everything with more than 3 and less than 9 seats and weight under 4 tonnes is a car. Period. Plus everything that would already be labelled as a car today, like 2 seater sports cars. 

What did I not like? Not sure. It’s subjective. It was just cheap, without any cheeriness. Maybe it’s why I like French cars. They can build cars that are cheap but still offer something extra. Some style, entertaining driving characteristics, something. The Suzuki had no redeeming qualities other than being…

They probably should have used this creepy moment.

My grandparents owned two Altos. A second gen ‘91 and later an ‘01 Maruti Suzuki Zen, which was badged as an Alto in Europe. I’ve driven the latter, just a few years ago when I was tasked to sell it.

Seriously? An Aveo? I’m not familiar with 1960s Japanese cars, but at 6'2" I can fit in non-sports Kei cars of the last 30 years just fine. I’ve never had the ‘pleasure’ of trying an Aveo, but it isn’t even that tiny.

Well, even today, Suzuki in my fair country outsells car companies that are big on other continents. Like Honda and Subaru, combined. It’s listed at #18 (2021), barely behind Mazda and Nissan (#16 and #17).

but in the 40 plus years since this brochure came out

The Jimny seems a bit more compatible with... almost everything. The Ford is more like a toy.

It’s a 36 year old pre-production car with double digit mileage. The only function this car has is in a museum.

Exactly. Or maybe it’s simply related to (carbon) emissions and economy, which matter much more in Europe than in the US. We don’t get the Atlas in Europe.

From your link:

I’m only thinking out loud here, but I guess the packaging advantages combined with the target vehicles did not make sense any more. In their main markets. In smaller cars like the Golf, going to turbo-4 made more sense. In larger cars, like the Audis, the packaging advantage of the VR engine was kind of moot.