The original feels like some nice brows over the eyes, but clearly a unibrow.

So are the headlights the lower ones in the bumper? I sure hope so, not because they look cool but because I’m so sick of SUV/truck headlights at eye level.

Also long trips mean long timeframes, and renting a car for $1000 is a few payments. If I already have a car payment, that’s not something I can just spring for.

Despite Russia being a real monster, Moscow has an incredible system: buses, trolley-buses, trams, and subway. The Metro is gorgeous, and trains come frequently. The longest I ever waited for a train was about three and a half minutes.

You mentioned a touchscreen — I thought Mazda had sworn those off, and used the knob/dial? If they are doing a touchscreen, is it really far away from the driver? It looks like it in pictures.

Because we are being held hostage. This pandemic was conquerable early on had everyone behaved, but no. So here we are. Ugh.

This is correct. And neither can people who are immunocompromised.

It’s like VW copied the Kia K5, especially those taillights.

This isn’t so surprising to me. After I bought my Golf IV in ‘02, a coworker with a 1985 Trooper told me she could never drive something so unsafe. I asked what she meant, considering she drove what she drove, and she said, “law of tonnage.”

A lot of red lights, unlike parking lots, have more than one direction where pedestrians and cyclists cross. There’s also a greater likelihood that there’s oncoming traffic turning left into that path, or making a U-turn into that path.

I wish we had no-right-on-red, too. I get a lot of push back on that, but it’s much safer.

The Soviets also didn’t count the output, but the input of the materials to calculate the output. So they didn’t count 10,000 Ladas produced, but rather the steel, rubber, and plastic that went into them. And that was all calculated by someone in a government office someplace. So if 10,000 tons of material were…

100%

Feeling as entitled/cheated as I do about VW not making the original Beetle a 4-door with a hatch (so, a 5-door, I guess?), this is not just fine, but good. VW missed their chance. And this bound to be safer than my ‘73 SuperBeetle (and probably more reliable).

I have nothing to add, other than a big thank you for using a Maestro as the top image :-)

Isn’t this a grand total of 16 seats, with that jump seat? 2 up front, 4 by the door, 3 in the third row, 3 in the fourth row, and 4 in the rear?

My mom once “cancelled Halloween” for the entire neighborhood (her suggestion that our neighborhood have a followup trick-or-treat because there was an ice storm on Halloween didn’t make it down the phone tree intact), and after that, she bought full-size candy bars as though it was her fault.

Are you interested in a different interior color? I’m not sure what you’re current ride is or what you’d be looking for, but the Accord used to have a cream interior with black exterior, and that was nice. And I think the German companies all offer something light inside (if that’s something you’d be interested in).

Nothing worse than a black interior. Feels small, heats up like a damn oven, shows every. tiny. speck. of. dust.

So, what fictitious cars do you think deserve to be turned into reality?