I imagine the number of people willing to commit grand theft auto for the sake of doing donuts in an intersection is pretty low given that the underlying rationale for such an action is “my car won’t get crushed if I am caught.” I think the cops would figure it out pretty quickly that the driver has no relation to the…

A large part of the issue is the amount of money shops charge for simple maintenance items. A co-worker has a 2015 Mazda CX-5 that was due for new spark plugs. This is a transverse-mounted inline 4 cylinder with coil packs, possibly the easiest configuration ever for changing spark plugs, and he was getting quotes…

In all fairness, you are comparing a brand new Ram to a truck that was designed during the Bush years.  You are also comparing the fuel economy of a diesel to a gasoline engine.  You’re basically comparing apples to staplers.

Article: People probably shouldn’t be shot for turning around in a driveway.

Bet if those engines were junkyard 5.3s they wouldn’t have failed.

Reminds me of the dentist scene from Coneheads.

It worked out for Ford when they decided all of their non-Mustang cars needed to begin with an “F.”
Focus
Fusion
Five Hundred
Freestar
Freestyle

1st Gear should surprise no one. The majority of people have been shopping by monthly payment amounts for a very long time now, probably since shortly after the auto loan was conceived. For about ten years now, dealers have defaulted to quoting 84 month loans specifically so the payment shoppers can justify buying a…

But a C4 Corvette just squeaks into this category as well.

The third offense should just be the vehicle is crushed.

$100 fine plus whatever pound-you-in-the-ass fee the tow company is going to charge.

The Focus ST with the optional Recaro seats. I took one out for a test drive when they were new and I made it to the stop sign at the end of the street before turning back around. The seat bolsters were way too aggressive.

Price absolutely was an issue, and is the exact reason why the LT1 trim came out. When the 6th Gen debuted, the 1SS started at something like $4000 more than the 5th Gen 1SS. The LT1 trim was GM’s attempt to bridge the price gap between the V6 and SS.

We’re in full agreement with the rest of your post. Everything about…

I mean, GM actually did lean heavily on the input of 5th Gen fanbois, which is why things like the visibility complaints were never addressed, because they never came up.

The 6th Gen is what happens when you use fanbois as your focus groups: You give them all of their asks which prices the car out of their reach, completely miss the criticisms that the rest of the world had of the previous generation, and then stand dumbfounded when no one is buying your car.

With $70k Civics, I guess we can expect $100k Integras.

This one because I witnessed it happen in person and it was on the front page of Streetfire for a hot minute.

The 944 is superior.

And here I sit: unscathed with all of my valuables intact.

I will not.  The 944 looks so much better.