Always love the “Look what our car/truck can do!” ads.

Toyota: We Build Excitement!*

Was he at the track? Most manufacturers won’t cover track driving anyways (which is dumb), But driving over 85mph = abuse? Even Mitsubishi stood by their high performance cars, what a let down. There’s something seriously wrong if driving 85mph will cause the car to combust.

Exactly. The Mirage today is not in the same class as the Mirage then, which competed with Civic, Corolla, Sentra, Escort and even looked a lot like a then Protege. I had a rental Mirage around that time and thought it decent and easy to live with.

The Mirage’s replacement is going to be a “MirageCross” or whatever they end up naming it. 

Well the old Mirage was really the Lancer, so it’s kind of an apples to oranges comparison. It would be more fair to compare it to a base model Colt from 1993, but I don’t think we got that in the states. Regardless, we lose something when there are no more basic, cheap cars to buy.

Adjusted for inflation, the Mirage LS (the fast one) would only be $22k. I guess the closest thing would be the Civic hatch sport, or whatever they call the six-speed one with 160hp. But that’s more like $26k. Of course, it comes with eons more technology and safety in it...

It shows how desperate Twitter must be for money. This type of action would best be negotiated in meetings, not courtrooms. And all the advertisers will have to show in court is Elons dang tweets. Can't imagine a judge ruling in favor of Twitter here,though like you, I have no legal knowledge. 

There is a difference between the Triple square and the 12 point. Triple square each tip is a 90 degree angle (hence the “square”), while 12 point each tip has 120 degree angle.

I applaud Motor Trend for its Consumer Reports moment, after decades of advertorial articles.

I have an EV9 and am part of the forums and nobody is buying this stuff. The car is plenty fast off the line and while I would like to configure the front pixel lights differently, I’m not paying to do that. I wouldn’t mind other themes for the infotainment system, but NBA doesn’t interest me. I do enjoy the Kia…

“and considering that a tune on a gas-powered car would cost thousands for the same result”

Gosh, remember when Toyota was the gold standard when it came to vehicle quality?

Sounds like they must have fired the electronics team that designed it and could not find anyone else willing or able to figure out the problem.

Now the IOC is using the the threat of taking away the 2032 Olympics in Salt Lake City as leverage to thwart any US investigation into WADA allowing doping by China and others.

The obvious shame being that LA could absolutely use every bit of that money for public transit/infrastructure, but centering it all around the olympics? F that, do something wholistic with it.

$900 million in federal grants....

It always makes chuckle to think about the Trabant owned by Robert Dunn from Aging Wheels and things like it’s manual choke, the completely unmarked, unlabeled shifter pattern, and all of the various East German, occupied Soviet-Era labels and text that are very much NOT in English.

You’re not a woman. Nearly every woman faces some kind of sexual harassment or assault in their life. Having your car tethered to a giant electrical box is the perfect opportunity for predatory people.

Meanwhile the gun nuts who are so scared they need to carry everywhere would love this, but they also hate EV’s.