Exactly. Everything must be a “baby sports car” or a “baby truck” or a “baby off roader”. It’s your entry into the upper middle class - and that’s also why cars are so expensive. Everyone wants to feel rich, so the average price of a new car has gone stratospheric - it’s in the mid $30k’s now. For that much money you…

It’s a reflection of contemporary American culture. Wealth inequality in this country is at its worst point since the Gilded Age, and it’s harder and harder every year for poor folks to move up in society, yet everybody is aspirational. Nobody feels like they’re working-class, they’re just not millionaires yet. And…

I work in advertising (commercial production) and I can tell you exactly why: people take themselves too seriously nowadays.

A beefier engine would have made it a real contender, I think! If I’m not mistaken it only had around 155 lb-ft of torque, which means you just have to keep it up in the RPM stratosphere to get any kind of power out of it. I get that it’s a rotary, but it just felt like it didn’t have any grunt. I took it up some…

I wanted to like it way more than I did. I’ve owned 3 Rx-7s, and the RX-8 came out right after my daughter was born and it seemed like the perfect compromise since her car seat fit perfectly in the back. Handling was absolutely fantastic, but it was totally the wrong engine for that chassis. A friend who worked for…

I never understood the draw of the RX-8. I test-drove an RX-8 when the latest generation came out, and you just had to wring the engine for power if you wanted to go fast. I was coming from a GTI and I expected something...faster.

I’m totally with you, but “banning ICE car production” and doing nothing else (which is exactly what will happen) will not accomplish anything. It’ll be the same thing that has happened with the “legalisation” of marijuana in some places (like DC). It’s technically legal, but there’s no mechanism for establishing…

Mass infrastructure building didn’t come from capitalism. It came from government intervention.

He wrote a whole article about it! He’s serious.

I’m with you on this - I think plug-in hybrids with ~35-40 miles of electric-only range are perfect. That’s right in the average daily driving range of someone in the US (about 29 miles, according to AAA). That will get rid of “range anxiety” and shut up those people that have 400 mile daily commutes in ice cold…

I...wouldn’t be so sure about that!

You're giving Raph far too much credit with a response of this detail. 

Banning ICE cars is one of those things that’s easy to say and makes for a good sound bite. The ban is always far enough in the future for the politician, they never have to worry about actually implementing it.

Come on, Jalopnik writers. I expect you understand why we can’t “just ban fossil-fueled cars at the moment” and this is just a troll. The problems with this statement, in no particular order...

Best wishes to Lewis and those around him - hope the rest of his paddock and crew haven’t gotten it.

This trend is so ridiculous that Dodge could offer an entire catalog of colored shipping guards in the accessory catalog for $100 a pair, and sell them AFTER they were removed during dealer prep.

Oh for sure - just got one of my friends to buy a CX-5 instead of a RAV-4, think they made the right decision. She’s now in love with the car.

Just make sure not to accidentally remove valuable accent trim pieces.

Mazda does a relatively decent job with it as well with the CX-5 and CX-9. Certainly no Macan/cayenne, but pretty equal when accounting for price difference.

A lot of people aren’t just doing it for fun and by choice. A lot of people aren’t happy about it. Shit happens. You’re lucky enough to not have to.