I’m going to have to disagree. I was a fan of Southwest before, but they cancelled all flights leaving Philadelphia 2 weeks ago “due to weather” (and was practically the only airline that did) and royally fucked my weekend plans, and offered zero assistance beyond a refund.

My rule of thumb is, if I estimate that the door would close fully before they reach it (based on door ‘weight’, distance, walking speed, etc), I feel I am under no moral or ethical obligation to hold it open for them.

If the CT6 is anything like my father-in-law’s CTS, it has more than a ‘little’ black plastic. The center dash is a horrific mass of it.

“You done goofed! Consequences will never be the same!”

Do you really have to live IN the city to enjoy those things? I like to visit every once in a while, enjoy some of the items on your list, and then enjoy heading home to a place with fresh air, lower population density, and reasonable cost of living.

The Lancer wasn’t their only product, and they already fucked up and diluted their other strong brands. The Lancer and the Montero are the only ones left worth anything.

Something that has never built widespread goodwill for an automotive brand ever.

Those are parts that matter most if you view a car as an appliance, and your only goal is to get from A to B as cheaply as possible, comfort be damned. And even then, I would have concerns about resale value negatively affecting cost of ownership, though I guess it’d be moot point if you plan to drive the car into the…

Mitsubishi makes other “Evos.”

Reliability through feature-delete. Get rid of enough nice stuff, and there will be practically nothing to break.

Yes, the base Lancer is good. The interior IS quite plain and feels cheap but the car performs well. A little improvement here would have been a huge help, but it’s been 10 years virtually unchanged.

Right, but did it do anything better than a Civic or Corolla? All it had going for it was that obscenely long warranty. And the fact that Mitsubishi would finance anyone with a heartbeat.

While the good-feelings for Mitsubishi were mostly concentrated around the Evo, no one I knew ever referred to it as a Lancer except as an insult. The tie between repurposing the Lancer name and sullying the Evo name is tenuous, and a bit of a stretch.

It was a useless hatch though from a utility standpoint. It had only trivially more cargo room than the sedan, if I recall correctly.

I imagine it’s lost due to an inherently less ‘breathable’ head design. I remember someone posting charts of the flow issue for OHV engines a year or two ago, but I can’t find them now.

All other things don’t need to be equal. As my old boss used to say, it’s what comes out of the pipe that matters.

The M2 is in the right price range, but it doesn’t offer quite the same bang-for-your-buck from a performance perspective. It may make up for it in other areas.

Land Cruiser sells for significantly more than $50k, Toyota badge notwithstanding.

What I can’t believe is how much the prices have increased since I bought mine. I got a ‘13 STI hatch, factory ordered, for somewhere around $35k, including all fees. The hatch was $2000 more than the sedan at the time, if I recall correctly.

Porsche’s ‘prestige’ was significantly diluted when they started offering base-model inline-4 CUV’s to upper-middle class suburban moms to cart their obnoxious spawn to the local Montessori school. They may still be slightly more prestigious than Mercedes, but the difference is not akin to the gulf that exists between…