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What Car Company Do You Wish Still Built Cars?

Subaru Ascent

You really need to learn to bite your tongue or to stop reading comments, if you can’t. Condescending to the readers is horrible form.

You drive a Hyundai Ioniq and you think the CTS-V wagon isn’t cool?

So just salty.  Got it.

Both the Traverse and Enclave are good solid vehicles. Because you don’t like them doesn’t make them bad.

It looks like a catfish someone stepped on. Also $33k is dangerously close to “just get an EV” territory for me.

A 6th Gen camaro you can see out of, and is gorgeous.

The McMansion Hell of Car Design

You can’t be serious right now. A Traverse tows 5,000 lbs, a Q7 tows 7,700 lbs, a Durango 8,700 lbs and an Explorer tows 5,600 lbs. Stop misrepresenting facts!

What car are you driving? Every GM car does this since 2014 either by a long press on speech button or using the google/siri microphone button when your phone is plugged in using Android Auto/ Carplay.

You know what, I gotta admit that does sound pretty good. I take it back.

So, instead of “simplify and add lightness”, it should be “complicate and add weight”?

I’m really happy for you, and I’ma let you finish, but the SAAB 9³ had the best cupholder of all time.

As someone who also drives 80 miles a day, trust me when I say 2012-2017 Buick Regal GS. You can get some of the earlier years within your budget. They have good power and are comfortable to drive. I generally get 28-31mpg depending on the time of year (winter vs Summer blend) and it still has enough power to be fun.

Hitting a pothole sideways at 20mph probably met the parameters for a side-impact crash. If this guy wants to take issue with anyone, it should be the group that laid out an autocross track with potholes on the course.

Saying that the car was only traveling 19mph is misleading. The car was sliding and the speedo only reads wheel speed. So the wheels were turning at 19mph,but the car may have been going much faster than that. See, e.g., your speed when you’re going a burnout. Speedo reads 40mph, car is creeping forward at 5mph.

I’m not surprised he didn’t get a copy of Raytheon’s report. GM commissioned it, GM owns it. Kind of like my home inspection. I paid for the home inspector, this inspection report is mine. You want a home inspection prior to sale, you hire your own home inspector.

Why should they? Certainly looked like an impact after loss of traction and panicked braking. If the airbags don’t go off in those circumstances 999/1000 you’re talking about dead/injured people instead of annoyed autocrossers.