Before I read the article, I just want to say - When NP or ND is late I get worried about what’s happened to Rob. I know that one day he won’t be there anymore, but I pray that this is not that day.

people don’t like the way they’re *perceived

I may be misremembering details to serve my own narrative here. But I recall it being said by Subaru when they axed the hatch that there was about a 50/50 take rate between the hatch and the sedan. They (understandably) didn’t want to keep sinking development money in to making both. And sure, hindsight is 20/20 and…

At least if it was a hatch I could put some mud flaps on there and cosplay a rally car. I still cannot fathom why they only make the sedan.

At the time it very well may have only been 8. But I think there’s only so many combinations you can make with a normal lock tumbler before a key that is technically cut differently can work if it’s worn or bumped the right way.

I remember my dad and I getting into an identical baby blue Plymouth voyager at the grocery store once and the key unlocked the door but wouldn’t start the car. So by 1990 Chrysler had solved at least half of that puzzle.

I’d take it with a manual in the small engine. Yeah, I’d like it with the big engine. Yeah, I’d like it even more in a WRX spec. But at the end of the day this is a (relatively) cheap hatchback and a stick would make it a fun drive around town. Once you get far from the base price, it becomes a harder value…

Lexus is offering one concession for new EV owners: the chance to borrow an internal-combustion vehicle from their dealer’s loaner fleet for up to 30 days each year for three years.

Maybe the issue is that the front of the car is just too small to make the grill the obligatory 8x taller on the M model? 

I’m very wary of any car that I can’t take for a test drive. Maaaaaybe it’s just a fuel pump issue to get the engine to run, but I’d be scared of whatever you find once it is running. And that’s not saying anything about the rusty mess you might find underneath. I’m seeing a car that needs to be priced at a point that…

I guess no one taught the FSD computers about target fixation. If all you focus on is missing the firetruck, you’re gonna hit the fire truck! Happens to me all the time.

I’ve noted the recent dip in Focus ST prices as well. Seen a few clean FiSTs for $11-12k too.

I really really really tried to hold off judgement for you to tell us this car had, like, 18k miles on it (and even then I think the price is too high).

Lots going on here, and while I generally agree that lowering the driving age is a bad plan (we should be making it HARDER to get/keep a driver’s license (start retesting those old people)), I recall some studies showing that accident rates track more closely to experience than they do to age (so a 16yr old with 2…

I don’t own any VW, and I want one of those anyway.

It’s out of my price range for an old toy, but if you really wanted a clean old VW, and you really wanted a type 3, this one is awfully interesting. And if you live in the Northeast like me, you’re going to be traveling to get one so you may as well make it worth your while and get exactly the one you want. I think…

“The all new 2024 Chevy Equinox comes with an optional* 3-Star Safety Package.

That’s totally valid. As an appliance it does a great job. As a car, it’s pretty good. But that doesn’t mean that criticisms of a $40+k (less now, but that’s very recent) aren’t warranted. 

I’m confused. Half of these say why they hate an objectively good car, the other half are just hating on cars and there is no admission they are good.

I am currently in the desert in winter time.