There’s at least 20 or so documented examples, and the list includes some domestic trucks as well Irv Gordon’s famous Volvo that passed 3 million. Most of the list is Mercs and Volvos, though there are some interesting outliers, like a Saab SPG, 63' Beetle, and ‘64 Porsche 356.

Mezger... and the Turbo also uses it.

I’d say a 280i coupe in U.S.-spec is VERY uncommon by now. TVR sold 1,167 V6 Tasmin/280i, and Hagerty estimates that about 400-500 of these reached the U.S. over a few years of sales before TVR withdrew from the U.S. market. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most of those sold here were convertibles. Given…

Now that you mention it, I thought Audi was making the S trim available in the Roadster for its send-off. I guess it’s not. That takes it even further out of the conversation with the Z4. Still a great-looking car.

$14K is hard to believe...that’s most of the value of the car. The C-HR uses what appears to be the last iteration of Toyota/Aisin’s very first belt-type CVT. This K114 version isn’t used with any other Toyotas, which is sort of astonishing and explains the lack of supply. It’s shocking that it failed so soon because…

Fallacy of selective attention... if this is overpriced so is everything else. The only direct competition it has is the Audi TTS and Porsche Boxster, both of which offer less in the bang-for-the-buck category. Miata and ‘vetter are outliers.

I would, too, but it’s surprising how much more expensive the Bronco Sport is. The base Bronco Sport isn’t even buildable on Ford’s website, so the minimum w/o options is the $31.5K Big Bend

There is just no way the Crosstrek has less interesting styling than a Corolla Cross. The Corolla Cross is a master class of bland that Subaru can only aspire to but never achieve.

This actually starts at about $92K without the PDK and options. The comparable car on price is the $106K GT4, which offers a much more sophisticated suspension in addition to a bit more power.

Yeah, that’s the right idea, offer cash. Replace the head unit and awful stock headlights and it’s a very comfortable and efficient daily driver. But no more than $10K unless of course dealer can produce the maintenance records of the original owner. I got rid of my six-speed 2011 sedan because even the Saab…

It just looks... big. And sort of dull. It’s telling that Acura doesn’t compare it to the GTI. Instead the rivals are CLA/A3/228i

GR Corolla and Kona N. I much prefer Mini’s aesthetics, but given the high price tags I’d definitely give these much more powerful options a look.

All Subaru’s money is going into a new EV factory. The brand will largely skip hybrids, because Subaru seemingly can’t afford to make or sell them at a price that makes sense. $38K?! Maybe it’s just a compliance or EPA credit product. For that money you might as well get on a RAV4 Prime waiting list.

That just tells us that EVs are still largely a luxury buy. Average transaction price of a new Subaru is $37K. Average transaction price of a new EV is still over $60K. Yes, that gap is closing, but by the time it does, Toyota and Subaru will fielding several EVs.

Agreed, they did like to rev. I had one in a Grand Am that really felt like a DOHC V6 in terms of power (keep in mind it was the mid-90s). The one I had didn’t bother me in terms of vibration, but two head gasket repairs in rapid discussion soured me on it. Also, you are totally correct, the engine could have been…

The Quad4 design was simply abandoned... the Ecotec was a development of the GM Family II engines, best known in Opels. And, yeah, not the smoothest powerplant.

Ni-MH was not a failure-prone and obsolete battery chemistry in 2008... Honda did well in the compact sedan space with the Civic Hybrid, which I believe had mostly the same tech. And until last year the Prius was *still* using Ni-MH batteries in the AWD version.

The Alpine *brand* is coming to the U.S. It wants to be the French Polestar apparently. But the A110? Sadly, no. They only sell 4K a year as it is and would never federalize it.

Erm, more than one design flaw.. the early examples ate head gaskets like nobody’s business. Even the much-later LD9 Quad4 had a whole host of dumb design decisions that made it a finicky powerplant.

It’s best we don’t see a picture of that monstrosity.