Wow. What the fuck is wrong with you, Bryan? Did your girlfriend cheat on you by letting OK Go run a train on her or something?

“And honda got the power at the cost of torque.”

I would agree with that. At the time, I think I was just annoyed at the amount of hate being lobbed at the Europeans.

Unfortunately, I’m entirely too picky. There is not one single vehicle, in all of history, that doesn’t have at least one aesthetic detail that I would change. Not one.

All the conjecture about how it changed aerodynamic drag is nonsense. The original design was just a dark-colored space for visual contrast; there was no tangible inlet or “grill” to begin with.

Yeah, what an absurd statistical basis, using the air that surrounds roadways! Humans almost never operate their vehicles in the polluted air near busy roadways..

I believe you meant to use the word “envy” where you used the word “jealousy” in your final paragraph. This mistake is made with an alarmingly frequency in our culture. Envy is the desire to have what someone else has; jealousy is the fear that someone else may take what you have.

You always make these jokes about 911s being totally ubiquitous, but if that’s really the case, I guess I need to move to another location. The number of 911s that I have seen out in the wild, on the road, in real life is minimal. Like, maybe five a year, if that. And that’s in a good year! Plus, inevitably, at least…

God, how I hate when incredible cars have their roofs chopped off.

That was the very theme of my initial reply to crazyodo. If regulators and/or people like you absolutely insist on amber illumination, we have the technology to disguise it so that no amber is visible when the car is off. Yes, it is more expensive; but it is a cost that should be deemed utterly necessary, in my…

I did not know the tail lights I like correlated strictly with model year. Thanks for the info.

Haha, while I agree with you on that, this still illustrates (to me, anyway) how egregious amber can make a tail light appear. While I certainly don’t like the car all that much, I find the standard red version of that tail light completely inoffensive. Not particularly attractive, by any means, but worlds better than…

While I agree with your overall sentiment, apparently I am a bit more discerning about what I consider “right” than you are. Non-U.S. Audi 80's also utilized this lightly-disguised method on their rear directional indicators, and to my eye it just ends up looking sort of pink, with a hint of amber still visible from…

Yeah, I hear you. We definitely could have the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, regulations are usually much harder to repeal than they are to pass, and no one ever has the foresight to word them in such a way that would allow their interpretation to change and evolve with future technological advancements.

But really though:

There are few things that anyone can do, to any car, that destroy the attractiveness of the vehicle as easily, and completely, as amber lenses. Front, back, side - doesn’t matter; they are all positively atrocious looking. [For evidence, I recommend looking at nearly any Audi or BMW. Ever.]

I admit that was a bit of an emotional over-reaction. I don’t really want a manually-removable targa top, either; that was me meeting Mazda halfway. What I truly want, is a simple, fixed-roof Miata Coupe. I later realized that the true reason they made the choices they did, rather than just give me the simple,…

Great article. Upon reading the headline, I thought for sure that you were going to mention something that I have noticed about the Camry of the last fifteen years; the window openings. If you look closely at the very first rendition of the generation your sister owns (2002 model year, I believe), and any Camry since,…

In retrospect, I can’t help but wonder if you had some inside knowledge of the situation at Mazda. The car they debuted nine days after you authored this comment wound up having both flying buttresses, and a retractable rear-window!

People! I have realized why they did this!