RE: #1: rein in the light trucks. Full size trucks are getting away essentially scot free with what amounts to no penalty. Assess full size trucks with an emissions tax like industries bear. That should move frivolous buyers back to more economical cars, encourage manufacturers to make their trucks actually toe the…

I’m one of those people who has never owned, nor his parents ever owned, a Beetle. Due to polio I had an uncle who had to drive with his feet, his brothers modified a car to be steered by a big wheel on the floor and that thing wasn’t even a Beetle, and neither was the dune buggy they built for him to use around the…

The Accord Coupe was a thing in its first generation, which was always an axe looming over the Prelude’s raison d’etre. The Prelude is essentially an Accord Coupe...which we already...hmm. Granted the Prelude’s chassis was unique to it and not the Accord which merely lent it most of its greasy bits, the Accord could…

“Occasional series” AKA “a story framework I will remember at infrequent, irregular moments.”

I’m reading the rest of the comments and it seems like a lot of people are sitting in traffic with the clutch pushed in.

It would appear so. I didn’t make my comment out of nowhere, I was reacting to a BS phrasing that seemed to reduce culpability of the actors in this tragedy, implying at a low level that the victims were dead as a result of poor judgment, bad luck or something similarly nonpartisan.  I suppose that, looked at in one…

What the hell.

They didn’t lose their lives. They were KILLED.

I’d be inclined to inject this into the conversation: “You do understand that you’re throwing away the opportunity to make some money, right?  If you send me away then you have no chance whatsoever, instead of the rapidly diminishing chance you currently have.”

I look at the specs and see that the Crosstrek’s interior volume is identical to the Impreza 5-door. The manual tranny has returned on the lower models of Crosstrek so that particular Impreza advantage has gone away but still - the Impreza hatch is still thousands cheaper than the Crosstrek. If you know you’re never…

1: Fine by me. I’m seriously hoping Aptera makes a real go of it, that’s the one I want. Unlike other manufacturers, the Aptera pretty much goes all-out in the pursuit of efficiency.  I’m willing to go along with that.

Eight-track player. Faux woodgrain - not just woodgrain, burl - AND plaid AND vinyl interior. Vinyl roof, saints preserve us. All lovingly photographed at sunset to really emphasize the “burnt” in that burnt umber paint color.

The taillights were an early non-hybridized take on regen brakes; step on the pedal and when all sixteen lights go on the whole car slows down just from the drag on the alternator.

The car has only 1800 miles on it and still they replaced the clutch? Were all those miles done 1/4 mile at a time?

As much as the Mustang II is reviled now I remember when it was new, modern and extremely popular. Back then, reviewers were a lot more forgiving, perhaps because what there was to compare the car to wasn’t that much brighter a light.

The people paying that much for one of these are ill and deserving of your pity.

Yeah, but to get that you have to take the car, too.

I didn’t read a single damned word after the headline.

The correct thing to do would be to leave and never come back.  It’s Kinja whose ad policies are the problem, and it is specifically Kinja I want to get fucked.  They are alienating readers.