Umm, unless you live in a major city or just don’t care because you’re buying an appliance.  

STs aren’t involved in this issue at all.  That’s a very different car than a regular Focus or Fiesta for most consumers which is what is generally being discussed.

Manuals were not widely available and I think it was only on the super base model (maybe sedan only).

This.  This is the correct answer.   The car and you learned to work together and then got confused by your wife.  Exact same thing my car did.  It’s just like Tesla’s autopilot except a transmission won’t drive you into a cement barrier when it gets confused.

The testers knew what they were driving and weren’t rental car customers.

Heavy traffic was the worst! It can’t predict what you were going to do so it will always be in the wrong gear. The other thing that’s awful is really tight parking garages. It was too sharp to ever get full released so by the time we got to the 5th floor (assigned parking) the clutch was well toasted. It took quite…

They really do have to learn your driving and if it was a brand new car it would take awhile for the computer to learn the clutch bite points.  More importantly you have to learn how to make it do what you want.  It’s not a torque converter and since there’s no one, proper way to let out a clutch its annoying.  It’s…

The CD4E was a significantly worse transmission. Every person that I’ve met that had one had to replace it. They were all garbage. The DPS6 had some bad parts, but most of the issues were people not knowing what the fuck they were doing.  All of the updates were to try to get people to complain less because they…

I read somewhere that the Mazda or Toyota (forgot which) said that 1A was the official standard and that’s what they were going to follow.  

Have you never seen the Clarity?

I do not want to know what a low volume piece of curved glass or the carbon fiber hatch costs. I’m not sure if the regular hatch will fit, but there is a whole hatch assembly on eBay for $1200

There’s already some piano-ish black, they put a metallic looking flake in it.

45 mpg (hatch) 48 mpg (sedan) is not better than 53 mpg (Prius Prime)

The white bits are stupid AF.

The sunvisors are a needed touch. Unlike the 5th seat, which is most likely because of Uber, they require 5 seats minimum. I actually prefer the cup holders. The USB ports are probably useless 1A like the front port.

Stinger should have been an option package similar to Hellcat or Shelby. No grandmother is going to want to buy a Kia Stinger,

When are they offering a 6MT as a no cost option? No? I guess BMW wins again.

1975 VW Rabbit

Nope, 944 ball joints are the worst. Early cars have riveted in BJs like you have. They’re not a big deal, and probably slightly safer for the first 100,000+ miles of the vehicles life. Some time around the 85.5(?) Porsche switched to an aluminum LCA that’s not really serviceable at all that currently cost $700-1,000…

These are the blue version. They’re not the brightest bulbs Philips offers despite the advertisement’s claim. Probably on par with the Philips Vision bulb that’s around $15 a pair compared to the CrystalVision at $25.

These are the blue version. They’re not the brightest bulbs Philips offers despite the advertisement’s claim.…