America: Hey, Toyota... We really like your 86, but could you give it some more power? Pretty pretty please?

So wait, Subaru becomes more and more humdrum by the year and Toyota starts making the fun cars?

An STI engine swap would, of course, be neat but I’m just happy with the blue lighting if I’m honest.

Canadian gas pumps have had chip readers for at least 5 years now. I don’t remember the last time I used the magnetic strip. I wonder why the US market was so slow to adopt?

I grew up in Michigan and daily drove a Triumph TR-7 on winter tires. You don’t need an SUV.

They should have considered elevating Alfa up to Porsche, which they’re now going to do with Maserati. Who cares if it’s expensive and breaks if it’s ridiculously stylish, very well adorned inside, and people feel good driving one (and it’s not their only car).

My Mechanic works cheap NP

99 323i owner here.

Trains would make a lot of sense if America had better trains 

It’ll be a Chevy Bolt with a beautiful ELR-like “coupe” body priced at 100K.  Then when GM manages to sell exactly 2 of them, they’ll tell everyone that “I guess the public isn’t ready for a luxury EV.”

I hope it’s literal. I hope that baby-hauler pictured up there has two motors per wheel, a 200 kWh battery and more raw horsepower than a Rimac. 

83 years?

Hah! Shows what those rubes in Knoxville know. It’s clearly a scalene triangle.

Im currently back in rural Middle Tennessee on a work thing, and one of my clients brought up the CYBERTRUCK. He currently owns a Nissan Diesel pickup, as he is a Nissan employee here at their headquarters.

Except “now you can get a cheaper basic car” isn’t how it’s going to play out. An ultra-basic model will theoretically exist, but no dealers will order it, it’ll be a pain to get, and the moderately-equipped stuff we’re used to will be marked up.

Here’s the $19,999 model:

“Heres the NEW 2026 Ford F-150, starting at just $19,999!”

I thought you couldn’t get internet access in Japanese prison.  

Carlos? 

Neutral: If I were the head of Nissan, I think I’d start by making underpowered, uninspired cars with a CVT. Then focus on fleet sales to prop up volume. Rather than update the Z to bring it into this millennium, I’d keep milking that for several more years.