The QX80 is a fine car in its own right, but a horrible idea to buy new. It depreciates so badly.

Between Infiniti’s announcement that its future cars would have more in common with Nissans from a construction standpoint (read: transverse-FWD and CVTs, and possibly 3-cylinder engines), and this nonsense, it seems like Infiniti is planning to release very lackluster and uninspired cars, and hopes to make up for it…

Right. I’m sure that we could create a car so safe, no one ever died or was injured in it. It would probably weigh several tons, cost well into the six figure range, and get two miles per gallon.

Exactly. This is why, except in extreme cases, cars are poor investments.

Absolutely not. This is probably a $30K car, at the most.

That’s probably the actual reason. Which...ick.

I actually like the E36 Compact. It’s not beautiful, but it’s charming in its own way.

The 4 Series coupe/M4 is starting to grow on me. If BMW got rid of the full-height grille (there are a couple of aftermarket kits at this point), and put a proper Hoffmeister kink in, it would look great, really.

I mean, the production iX has a steering “wheel” that looks like it belongs in a Salvador Dalí painting.

And that one looks a lot more palatable than the M Sport version. Unfortunately, you cannot get the gasoline-powered 7 Series without the M Sport package; the non-M Sport is only for the i7.

To be fair, I think the idea was to make the 5 and 7 Series sedans taller, not unlike Ford did with its D3-platform sedans (Five Hundred, Montego, MKS, final Taurus, final Sable), for easier ingress and egress.

How is the XM not the top answer? It is unexcusably hideous, isn’t particularly fast for how much power it has, and costs a small fortune.

What was interesting about the 5 GT was that it had the same wheelbase as the LWB F02 7 Series, and since they’re on the same platform anyway...it was essentially a taller liftback 7 Series. A lot of older people who wanted a car that approximate footprint but who didn’t want to bend down ended up buying the 5 GT.

I love it, both because it’s oriented incorrectly and because it’s extremely chintzy-looking.

To be fair, we have one already, albeit a class size smaller.

I never heard this. But it might be true. It’s probably because GM didn’t want to strengthen a competitor in that space. It was fine when other automakers were borrowing transmissions or engines in low-volume applications, but problematic when it encroached on GM’s most profitable segment, and the existence for the swe…

One also wonders about Bentley and Lincoln, which have both used the Continental nameplate for years. I believe Lincoln was first to it, so the Bentley Continental almost always had a prefix (R-Type, S1, S2, S3) or a suffix (R, S, T, GT, GTC, Flying Spur).

That basically sounds like server-side ad injection (SSAI), and it’s a popular, and effective, solution these days.

The actual reason for the raised floor is the solid rear axle that all of the TNGA-F vehicles employ and that most Toyota trucks have used. The only ones that didn’t were the prior versions of the Sequoia, as they had independent rear suspension. But the new one has a solid rear axle, and so is compromised inside.

I learned to drive on one of these, to my eternal chagrin. It was my dad’s refrigerator-white, 2007 Caliber SXT. At least it had alloy wheels, keyless access and cruise control; those weren’t standard.