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Ford has the hot flavor of the moment in the hot hatch realm with the ST as buyers have come from VW, Subaru, and others, but what if the new Golf R or another competitor outdoes the little Ford? Will these buyers come back and move to a Fusion? No. They'll buy the new cool car.

He was looking for the Ferrari version. . .

The various 24 hours of Lemons has wiped out all of the good sub $1000 hoonables that Cash for Clunkers and the Great Recession did not get.

Beaten to my first thought.

Agreed. Subaru and Toyota (and to a less extend Honda) have pulled buyers away. Also Hyundai and Kia have not help them either. But Mitsubishi is circling the drains for one primary reason- bad cars and trucks. And this could be Nissan in three years if they don't spruce up their car/truck/suvs soon.

Yes, as you sell more cars you become less exclusive, but so long as the Cayman and Boxster and 911 keep getting better (definitely on the first two, arguable on the latter) I don't think the brand is becoming watered down and I think, at this point, most reasonable people don't care anymore.

It's a kind of curious problem Romney faced and it's hard not to feel a little bad for him. He thought he needed a Michigan GOP primary win to ensure the nomination, but supporting the bailout would have cost him basically everywhere else. Of course, as we learned he won Michigan and won the nomination and… his…

It could be worse, though, as he could be the CEO of Mitsubishi. WTF is Mitsubishi doing? Not much, which is why they're planning a big rollout of a new business plan and we're getting a little preview of it via Hans Greimel and it includes a Renault-based mid-sized sedan in the U.S. where Renault already sells a…

They look way behind Toyota and Suburu over all. And Mazda seems better positioned on cars and crossover SUVs.

That's terrifying. I have seen the used Nissan's with the interior's all flaking off at Carmax myself- they look so cheap.

Yeah, their trucks were nice back in the day (especially the Pathfinder). Now, they just look old.

Nissan President and Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn attributed the weaker than expected performance to a variety of troubles, chief among them weakness in many emerging markets and painfully expensive recalls.

"I told my guys, go back to Tesla and look for other opportunities" to work together, Bodo Uebber, Daimler's chief financial officer, told reporters in a press briefing. "We want to look for more cooperation."

However irrational it is, we'd like to credit the Mazda MX-5 with this success.

Much of this you can credit to an increase in sales and more profitable new models.

Because they are going to make a real M2

This was my thought as well.

And a 911 prototype with 8 months of modding and untold cash would have probably soundly beaten this car. Alas we will never know. Someone get Chris Harris on this!