Your experience test driving the CR-Z is exactly what my mom said about test driving the original CRX, guess they hit the mark a little too closely.

Agreed, Driving transit buses for a living I can tell you that the average time between a major break down is not going to be long enough to make this a reliable coast to coast motorhome. 

I’m going with “99 Luft Balloons” being generally thought of as a anti-war, Soviet Union era, East and West Germany still existing, protest song being the reason.

Why don’t they just use the KIA logo from South Korea that everyone puts on them anyway so people (not car people) think it’s a Lexus.

Doesn’t remind me of the original Z at all. Originally Z’s were long and skinny not short and wide, but I guess the car has just aged like most people do.

1. Remote start

Easy one, my dad. Mean POS.

Exactly my thoughts, now 1,000,000 dollars worth of bikes is Hollywood style, not two.

Easily stolen. Yep, they're still stealing them. I had to buy one last year.

The problem is this...

East coast:

You’re both technically right.

Some here is Las Vegas has a blue later gen 1 in so-so shape driving around and someone recently must have found a “grandma owned” gen 2 in white with a temp sticker/dmv moving permit in the window, that car looked like a used car from 1999. It’s in that good of shape (on the outside at least, Under the hood it's…

It varies by your age as to what common cars you’re never seen.

Agree, plus you have to factor your own age into it to: example I was born in 1990, so let’s assume age 5 and up for decent memories of which cars a person has seen, give a 10 model span for common at the time cars still on the road and I could only realistically say if car from 1985+ was common or not and then only…

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Eagle Premier as it’s badge engineered sibling the Dodge Monaco in person or one in the USA badged as a Renault Premier.

My least reliable car would have been my 2002 Ford Focus LX that I bought used in 2008. Was the color pictured above but with steel wheels with covers I bought to mimic the SE stock wheels in the picture. Car had A/C, automatic transmission and a aftermarket cd player with a radio that the tuner was analog so every…

“There is something wonderful about being able to repair a simple problem on the side of the road with a cheap hardware store kludge. It’s not permanent, but it made the rest of the journey without leaking a drop. It also made me like the Jeep just a little bit more. Like we’d been through something together. It’s…

To make the automotive equivalent of a Mullet? Business in the front, party in the back.

Toyota is well known for not implementing new technologies until proven and reliable cars, I’m betting they probably don’t think the batteries that are currently available are able to uphold that reliability factor. If you look at the failure rates of older Prius batteries it makes sense, those cars would've been…