I think it’s Peugeot that does that, rather than Citroën, although they are part of the Groupe PSA parent company and more broadly Stellantis. Also, Peugeot combines the dashboard design with a smaller steering wheel, to make it easier to have the wheel positioned lower and not block anything or impede legroom; I’m…

I was worried that Toyota wouldn’t be able to keep the Prius relevant in a world where virtually everything they make either has a hybrid option or only comes in a hybrid. The Corolla Hybrid, in particular, poses a threat because it’s a compact-class sedan with more-conventional styling and a cheaper price tag. I was…

That’s because Lamborghini’s angular, geometric styling lends itself to Mansory’s style of adorning cars. Few other brands do, though.

You might be right!

It could be a future collector’s item someday.

For example: the gen. 10 Accord introduced a couple of big elements that the Accord had never gotten before: a fastback roof-line shape with an abbreviated decklid (granted, most sedans are going this way, but...still), and a separate quarter-panel window on each side. Those don’t seem like much, but they are huge…

Probably, but it would add a lot of expense and they likely wouldn’t be able to charge any more for it, because the midsize sedan segment is highly price-sensitive. It would also potentially steal sales from the more-profitable CR-V.

My first car was a CB. A 1990 Accord EX Sedan. Weirdly, it had eggplant-colored vinyl (not leather) that I’ve never seen on any other fourth-gen. Accord before or since, along with a J-VIN (indicating that it had been manufactured in Japan, rather than Marysville, OH).

Eh, perhaps. Really, to me, the rear of the new Accord looks like something Volvo (for overall shape) or Volkswagen (for the lighting patterns) would do.

Honda’s vehicles tend to go through an A/B-generation design cycle. Generation A will introduce bold new styling. Generation B will tone that down somewhat, and be a more-refined (some would say more-boring) version of Generation A.

On one hand, this could really help people who own Teslas and who already take Zoom calls in the car. On the other, it could turn into another mechanism by which to make someone accessible, when they otherwise might not be.

Good point. I have several friends with Nissan 240SXs. Two things are true.

Wow, thank you!

I’m down a car. My 2010 Range Rover Supercharged met an untimely end last week, and is very, very totaled.

That’s true. The problem is what happens when you buy, borrow or rent someone else’s car—as in the case of our author—and don’t realize it’s diesel, especially if it’s a smooth powertrain. And even if you do, it may not remain top-of-mind when you’re refueling.

That is a really good testament to modern engineering and to the powertrain engineers at GM, that the car did not destroy itself.

I like it, with the glaring exception that there needs to be some kind of hybrid.

Well, for one thing, I was responding to VicVinegar’s comment about a potential MT Phaeton, not a Passat W8.

There was indeed not a MT Phaeton, although I’m sure that an Audi manual transaxle would swap right in, and you could potentially trick the computers into not caring.

That’s true. The SUV market can withstand a lot of cars, even if they seem alike, and it would be relatively cheap for Honda to keep making a sawn-off, two-row Pilot variant.