Fine, claimed plausible deniability, but this:

Read car salesman takes advantage of elderly person- now if they offered it for this price then no, but if they were looking for ‘offers’ and he swept in showed them a blue book value and paid it he deserves to be sentenced to a long period of searching for 10mm sockets in a field of poison ivy

Isn’t this the sort of thing car enthusiasts have been wanting for decades? A stripped down car that offers only the essentials.

What kind of “experts” don’t suggest a Honda Accord Sport 2.0T which is a similar motor to the Type R.   Comes in a Manual Transmission and is a great family sedan and what I’d expect would be Honda reliability. 

Forget small vans. Suzuki needs to come back and give us the new Jimmy. My ‘86 Samurai is getting a bit long in the tooth!

The problem is more that millennials are more likely to live in urban areas where car ownership is not a requirement and less likely to be able to afford a new one. Car prices have come up a lot over the last 15 years while salaries are flat and millenials are carrying historically large amounts of student loan debt.

It has more to do with the image that people want to portrait themselves as. In the 50's and 60's working class people who had “made it” wanted to display how well they were off now by buying a coupe or a luxury sedan. That’s why all the luxury marks, all the Cadillacs, Lincolns and luxury Chryslers came in these body…

Start buying annoying crossovers, please.

October 2012, I bought a Suzuki Kizashi. November 2012, Suzuki ceases selling cars in the U.S.

A little surprised Tesla hasn’t rebranded it or spun it off and started selling licenses already.

The problem with the Cruze and Fiesta was that they are not good cars. Why buy a Fiesta when you can have a Honda Fit (which is better built, more reliable, and has a higher resale value)?

they figured out a way to average 13k profit on every f150 sold but somehow cant make 200$ selling cars.  its mind blowing.  if they stopped benchmarking and just made good shit they wouldnt have had that problem.  noone wants an american copy of a german or japanese cars.  american cars were great. thats why the new…

If they can’t make money on a car while other companies do, then it’s not the car that’s the problem.

“Why offer cheaper cars when we can just offer longer loans for more expensive cars?”

Ford (...) getting out of the small car business in America

My problem with Ford was that instead of trying to figure out why we are inefficient and can’t make money on the tight stuff, we just swept it under the SUV margin rug. I’ve heard that Ford’s profitability is questionable on the Ecosport and Escape now too, so it’s all coming back to haunt them.

US consumers: haven’t had a meaningful raise in decades.

Frankly, Chrysler should be allowed to finally just GO and be awesome.

Toyota keeps their legacy names and piggybacks new models onto them e.g. Celica-Supra, Corolla-Tercel, Camry-Solara. If the new model takes off, then it becomes a standalone. 

First, they have to kill the 300. It’s had a good run. Let the old girl retire.