It might be awful, but that's exactly why I love it.

I nominate the Fiesta ST. Brilliant driving dynamics attainable for the masses. While the Focus ST is great, this is the car that really brought Ford (in the US) back to the hot hatch market.

We had an '89 Civic Wagovan when I was a kid. You could get a right-side rearview mirror as a dealer-installed option.

hey, that's my old car! Same color too. 1300cc manual. Forget the side mirror - it didn't have a rear defroster either (of course, it was so small I could just lean back and wipe the window clean, but that's not the point :)

My father's 1995 Saturn SL1 did not have a passenger-side rearview. (I don't think there was any optional equipment on that car.)

My '96 Tercel also doesn't have one. I understand it's a base model, but how much would it have cost them to slap one on there and improve visibility by at least 50%? Maybe $30?.

Every cheap Toyta, Honda, or Subaru my dad had from the 70's, 80's, and 90's didn't have a passenger side mirror and the driver side one had to be manually adjusted from the outside. I think this was just a universal econo-car standard at the time...

Bull. Nobody is pulling anything out of their asses by saying that literally everything we've seen thus far indicates that they were going damn fast.