of all the vechiles i wish would make a comback, the full size blazer is at the top of my list. Sure nobody would drop $50k on a new one today, but my childhood tells me that rural cops use these, the military police, single oil men in cowboy hats and denim jackets and generally any badass, flag waving mofo.

I recently rented an Elantra GT. Surprisingly for a rental, it was pretty much fully loaded. It drove quite well. The weather was bad so I didn’t hammer it, but general commute was better than I expected. If the steering would have given me any indication it was paying attention to the same road I was, it could have…

Cool, you found one example of an Elantra having an issue. Good for you.

Former Hyundai owner. I disagree. The only mechanical issue I ever had with my Hyundai was when it got smashed into oblivion by a pickup.

we have owned 3 and they have be excellent and super reliable

As someone who actually owns a Metro, I can’t imagine how much less structurally sound it must feel with the roof sawn off.

Beg to differ on the Probe. We had an ‘89 GT with a turbo, and it was fast as hell. Comfortable too! The trunk was like a canyon and was unstoppable in the snow.

The Geo Metro convertible called. They just wanted to say “hi” nothing beyond that, everyone forgot them too.

I assume you meant “Escort ZX2" which was almost 25% less boring than a Paseo and came out later that decade.

Did you forget the convertible version? Hey, no worries - everyone else did.

It’s really not that confusing. People prize toughness and durability more than anything else in a pickup truck. A Toyota badge is pretty much a guarantee that it will outlive its owner. People don’t have that same confidence in the Big Three’s build quality, and thus they buy the objectively inferior Toyota.

In the parking lot at work there is an early model Tundra that parks next to a new Tacoma, they’re literally the same size.

Props to that Studebaker!

GM products run badly longer than most cars run at all. Still plenty of ‘90s Cavaliers running around with mismatched wheel covers, sloppy ball joints, coolant leaks, failing head gaskets, burned out dash lights, missing exhausts, and rusted through bodies. But, they eventually start and get their owners where they…

Reminds me of this:

Oh, and here’s another guess:

If they’re autonomous electric cars that communicate with each other then there won’t be much of an issue since you don’t have to worry about the inchworm effect of people waiting for the car ahead of them to start moving. The whole thing can move as a unit. Program your exit number and let the car worry about merging…

I’m guessing these were the domesticated variety, which are bred for breast size, not flight ability, in which case, they might as well drop raccoons out of planes.

“I was fairly surprised...out 12 birds, ten of them actually survived being dropped out of an airplane?”