For about the price of a base-o-matic CVT Mirage, my wife and I bought a base, 6-speed manual Kia Soul with nearly double the horsepower, 30+mpg combined, and a lot more room. I don't see this selling at all.

Maybe they needed this....

My aunt had a silver T-bird LX of the same vintage and it was loaded — 5.0, leather, etc NP by a hair
Coincidentally, this is the same price I almost paid for a blue-on-blue leather one when I was 19. Dad wouldn't let me buy it...

I only watched a few minutes, but afterwards, I thought this:

Coming in Fall 2015:

This is actually the bean-counter designed Aztek, and it sold in far greater numbers:

A lot of manufacturing goes on in those border towns. Cheap labor, lax environmental regulation, and easy transport into the US market makes for higher profit margins on the consumer crap we buy.

Craziest thing about this? This photo is facing west. That's Mexico on the left.

It was pretty abrupt, too. I remember tuning in to watch reruns the next week and there was a Pirates-Mets game on.

It was pretty abrupt, too. I remember tuning in to watch reruns the next week and there was a Pirates-Mets game on.

You forgot a very important one:

You forgot a very important one:

Flip this image 90 degrees either direction and the roof does make a pretty badass villain logo...

The price and the subsequent NP votes remind me of an acquaintance I had a little over a decade ago. He was a friend of a girlfriend at the time. (The same girlfriend had a friend living with her husband in a shed behind her father-in-law's single wide trailer. Don't judge. It was a weird time in my life.)
Anyway, this…

Neutral: How Long Before We Have A Female Car CEO? GM is maybe next, but I don't see much at Ford or Chrysler to convince me otherwise, especially with Fiat ownership. Maybe one of Ze Germans?

I thought this was the taxi of the future:

where's the size comparison to GTA San Andreas?

It is definitely still alive in the southeast although they're more likely in the rural counties surrounding major cities. In Charlotte there are almost none but go to Gastonia or Concord and there are minitrucks all over. Bagged mazdas, tacomas, and s-10s seem to dominate here.

And the wheels look like they're made of dicks.

Because they seem to be everywhere and the fact that a lot of novices drive them, there are plenty of 4 cylinder Isuzu diesels in junkyards. I guess because people crash NPR vans a lot...