Lincoln and Genesis will sell you cars with blue or green interiors.

Yes! I know someone who has an SQ5 in that color. It’s gorgeous.

Also Isle of Man Green. When I was buying my car, someone in the next bay was taking delivery on an M4 in that color. The design itself is challenged, but the color was gorgeous.

They’ve gone back to colors on the new iMacs, albeit in more muted fashion than the originals.

Ordering is how I ended up with a Phytonic Blue X5. No way was the dealership going to have one in inventory.

Bring back Mystichrome (and not just on someone’s one-off Ford GT). I’m sure it’s a pain to fix in an accident, but gosh, is it ever cool-looking.

I have an A8. Does that mean I get to have a bigger temper tantrum? 

Well, in the case of the HS, it’s certainly a serviceable, reliable car; however, it was a flop for Lexus (possibly their first), and was upstaged entirely when Lexus released the much-larger and much-more-efficient 2013 ES 300h.

Right. Although Mercedes-Benz inexplicably moved the pontoons from the sedan and wagon for the 2014 facelift.

These W212 E 350 E-Classes are some of the most solid European cars you can buy from that era. As long as one didn’t have glaring issues and was reasonably maintained, I wouldn’t feel scared at all to buy it.

Well, of course. Key word is new, which is to say that the current Mirai redeems a lot of the foibles of the old one.

Hard agree. The Giulia is the better car, and that’s the funny thing.

That’s so passive-aggressive. I love it.

At least the new Mirai is on the longitude-RWD TNGA-L platform, and is fundamentally a short-wheelbase version of the current Lexus LS. And it’s better-styled, too.

It’s weird the way the Pathfinder oscillated between unibody and body-on-frame, but yes, that generation was a decided step downward. It’s not that I’m offended Nissan switched to their ubiquitous transverse-FWD D-platform and CVT arrangement, but it was just such a poorly styled and poorly executed car. Like a blob…

The Ghibli was a victim of FCA’s decision to spin Ferrari off and mostly decouple Ferrari and Maserati development, as it related to the cars’ interiors and electronics. Thus, the Ghibli would use a lot of the same switchgear as the mainstream Chrysler cars, which they did not do a good enough job of disguising. On…

Correct. It didn’t get particularly good fuel economy, and it was on the same New MC platform as the Toyota Corolla and Scion tC. Strictly speaking, the HS was a thinly rebodied Toyota Avensis. That said, it had the larger hybrid system from the Camry.

SYNC and MyFord/MyLincoln Touch were based on Microsoft Windows Embedded Auto platform, but were not specifically made by Microsoft. Crucially, the difference is that the shortcomings with MyFord Touch, in particular, probably came from Ford’s use of the platform, and not the platform itself.

I agree that the Crosstour and the ZDX had a different shape (and also were not on the same platform).

Let’s not forget also that EcoSport and EcoBoost had completely different pronunciations. Apparently, EcoSport was pronounced “ECH-O-sport,” while EcoBoost was “EEK-o-boost”