Over the course of about a million miles on the road, the two most pants shittingly terrifying experiences I’ve had driving were being sleep deprived or on Xanax. Even just one pill. Nothing compares to those two.

You can feel buttons. Drive long enough and you know where they are without looking. Can’t feel a touchscreen. So you have to look.

So my $1500 1999 Mustang’s a show car? What luck!

Seems like typical “in the box” corporate management mentality. Problem being, if the bottom line is all that matters, electrics and hybrids would be the first to go. They have high production costs, abysmal profit margins, and electrics in particular have failed to meet the very low sales expectations for that sector…

VW lost all interest in the Beetle around the late 60's. They launched a bunch of other lines hoping for a successor and with the Golf, they found it. They dropped it from US markets in 1978 hoping for a domino effect, but global demand kept in the market into the early 2000s.

Just put four wheels on the damn thing already. I love everything about this car except for that dumb hipster shit. Three wheeled cars are a time capsule of failure from every era they’ve existed in the last century.

Isn’t this some kind of BMW sponsored movie?

That is wildly impractical.

Ever had to get an ECM reflashed by the dealer because a mechanically sound car gets stuck in limp mode? Now imagine those same firmware failures in an autonomous system at interstate speeds.

And no, we won’t just simply fix all the bugs by then. Programming is a perpetual dance of cutting every corner you can get away…

The only thing I don’t like about it is that it’s another downward notch in build cheapness (not pretending Fiat was quality), but stateside it’ll remain just as overpriced.

If you hit someone else, it DOES NOT MATTER what they did wrong. It’s up to you to prevent the accident. You are sorely in need of defensive driving courses and anger management.

Who, specifically, is preventing you from making a General Lee? There are multiple replicas around here.

I can’t look at these without thinking how incredibly expensive every part of this car must be. But it’s also a Honda Civic. Those two lanes of thought just can’t coalesce.

What is it about driving 2500 lbs of metal, with enough inertia to turn your body into a pancake, makes drivers wildly overestimate their reaction time and control of the vehicle?

A 68-69 Corvair, sure. But the mid 60's Corvairs truly were dangerous. Drivetrain weight was heavily skewed behind the rear wheels, and the rear suspension had a habit of accommodating the engine’s throw. They were known to outright flip on 45mph curves.

20 years from now it’ll be old ads the companies no longer pay for and a government that won’t pay to remove them in a still crumbling subway system.

That’s two FWD cars and one that’s about as reliable and expensive as the Jaguar. And with early 2000's Hondas, you’re opening a Pandora’s box of problems you might not be able to close.

The Lexus is a good option. Then of course there’s the Ford Panther bodies and GM B bodies.

I’d be happy to provide notes on a solid year of work and $2000 in parts for a 2002 Civic EX I had to sell bricked as evidence. Or you can reference the 364 Technical Service Bulletins for that generation.

The best way I’ve found to deal with this is look at the cheap end of brands, see if any are stateside, and if there isn’t feedback look up similar parts that do have feedback. Detroit Axle is a good one.

Seventh generation Civic. Horrible, profoundly unreliable vehicles. Even in showroom condition you have to contend with severe understeer that plows with no effort, a suspension that’s somehow stiff, bouncy AND has terrible body lean, and a gearbox that fights you in every gear at every RPM.

Add on to that premature…