Best Generation eclipse or not, I still giggle at the sad choice to put an off center oh shit bump on the damn hood cause Design and engineering couldn’t get their shit together fast enough (worse yet, I have a nagging suspicion it was something they were proud of as it's also in the face-lift of the prior generation) 

Seconded on the backstory request!

If you like hatchback+fun+quirky, this is both technically and holistically all three:

Given how f1, Ferraris, and such have had a higher pitched whine for quite a while now, I’m not so sure it’s power or performance that I associate with a delightful burble.

I mean, I’ve wondered this as well, but is that how we feel about the sound of horses and steam engines?

This has gotta be the best take. I can't see any reason to recommend to a normie or a race car driver that they don't choose electric, but if you're and enthusiast and want something fun to cruise in, then noise is really where it's at. No necc loud, but good. Although for ICE, good usually means louder than most…

I... Uh... Can we get a response to the chemtrails title concern? It's not end of the world problematic, but it does seem a bit hacky. You gave me deep flashbacks to the EPA's argument in Mass v. EPA which is probably not a good look? 

I do like that render and similar ones.

Yes, but the West Germans got the Östologie something fierce! 

Navigating neighbor politics is perhaps my biggest apprehension in my apartment building.

Ain’t gonna lie, I’d love this little after action report after every drive. I live for the androidauto little Google lady on maps telling me I beat her estimate by 3 minutes when I arrive at my destination.

I could see this as cool tech to allow manuals to work with fancy new braking tech/autonomous but I’ve always said and maintain that “row your own” focuses on the wrong part of the manual experience. The clutch is the fun part that both takes skill and gives you that feeling of connection and control that an auto just…

Luckily kinja has gotten so bad on mobile with pop up ads, scroll-along force start videos, and I assume a huge number of buggy invisible monetization schemes that half the time my comment self-deletes before posting.

One of the rare times. I just can’t, Jason. This design language was bold and I kinda want to respect them for that but it was so boldly terrible. In a time when Japan was giving us beautiful complex shapes and Europe was giving us stately refined shapes, her comes Ford with some low poly mesh that tries to make it up…

Between last week’s hot hatches and this weeks lux hatches, what I’m not getting is why they put a 6-speed traditional auto in this.

I do get what you are saying, and I agree that there is more here than DS is wrong, led retrofitters are right. Instead, what I’m interested is my and most of the other pro led retrofit folks who report being able to see more and farther with LEDs despite being told we must be crazy cause, see here, the led bulb isn’t…

That’s an interesting closing line because it seems the negate the point you were making (that engineering and regulatory standards exist for a reason) in a desire to dig at JDM vs USDM standard housings.

I agree absolutely about considering the entire experience and detest the high beam always on or light bar always on douche bags.

Thank you, kind internet person! My editor is 11 years of higher education and literally 1000s of undergraduate writing samples I’ve graded. I was actually discussing a chapter with my advisor yesterday and, while he was providing constructive criticism very constructively, I was still feeling a bit down about my…

Legit was not sure if you meant Daniel Stern or the OP. DS seems like the type to have a long complicated justification for being a contrarian. I don't think he's dumb and from all reports he seems excessively polite. But I still can see him politely ignoring the "questionable science behind mask wearing" and then…