I was coming here to say this, but could have not worded it any better, thanks! “Ohio driver education” is a very apt oxymoron.
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Everyone is talking about overaggressive drivers in overpowered cars, but don’t drivers of Camry-dent dented Camrys and other shitboxes alike hogging the left-lane also deserve to be placed in the “idiot driver” category? Please show them some love...
Sounds like this would be a perfect redevelopment project for Clive Palmer, who is investing some of his billions into building the Titanic II. He could “easily” have the largest fleet of ocean liners (two) be the end of the decade!
Design feels like a mix of Lada Niva and VW Golf Mk1, and that’s a good thing!
Lexus predator grille, which bizarrely works on the LC500, but nowhere else.
Someone said BLOB!?
Now he needs to be seen arriving to Arrakis 8167 years before it actually happens, or perhaps just to the premiere of the DUNE-Part Two movie.
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Still... it could be worse. Like the 2005 Mercedes CL cupholders, a rare combination of something overengineered still being hopelessly flimsy.
And today Sainz drove a lap 1.4s faster than Verstappen’s on soft tires, and 1.8s faster than Leclerc, so it is difficult to infer anything solid at this point. It is, however, significant that with just two days of testing the 2024 cars are already only 0.2s behind Vertappen’s 2023 pole time of 1:29.708. And that was…
Don’t quite follow. Most cars in 1985 had no airbags, except for the S-class and maybe a few other German luxobarges, so safety ratings ignored airbags then, but now it would be unthinkable for a car to be sold new without an airbag. Standards evolve, the Zoe falls short of the present EuroNCAP safety standards and…
Indeed, back in the late 90s I tried to get my father interested in a Mazda Xedos 9, as I really loved the futuristic interior, but he was too much in love with his 1993 Rover 820 ti, which is another very decent large car from the 90s (solved almost all the problems the 1st gen had, and that new 2.oL T16 engine was…
Because it’s not required... The vehicle does have to comply with minimal federally-mandated safety laws before it can be sold:
Not quite, it used the same platform as the Mazda 626/Capella, which Ford then also used for the Ford Probe 2nd Gen. The Mazda Millenia was the platform above, and was called Xedos 9 in Europe and Eunos 800 in Japan and Australia. The front design is indeed similar, but the Millennia was a larger car (and a very nice…
Congratulations on still having your very well-preserved beauty. Mine was a 1996 gunmetal grey one, which I reluctantly sold in 2009. Literally went across half the world with it...
1991-1997 Mazda MX-6, especially the 2.5 V6 LS version. Buttery smooth naturally aspirated engine and 5-spd manual transmission. Probably the best handling FWD car I drove except for the Acura Integra Type R (never had the pleasure of driving the Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9 or the Renault Clio Williams). The interior was a…
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Not sure it is the worst, but it is certainly the stupidest. The Citroën Pluriel is one the daftest ideas to ever be put into production. A convertible where some specialized assembly is necessary to convert it. Good luck putting the roof up if it starts to rain in your open-air promenade, because you left all the…
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I think the Peugeot 307 CC Clarkson drove in this hilarious Peugeot parody is a major contender. Completely awful design proportions, way too heavy, terrible performance, terrible handling, terrible construction quality,...
The space argument I get, but the resources?... Those things are going for peanuts these days. The challenge is finding one that hasn’t been crushed or rusted into oblivion.
May I present to you the wonderfully craptastic 1981-88 Renault 9, aka the ill-fated Renault Alliance in the US.