Dear Mr Marvel, there are too many multiverses nowadays. Please, eliminate three.

I know it won't have Ford running costs, but $29k would buy a whole-ass Rolls (at least two money pits), so mega-pass.

Let me know where I can get a $5 Youabian Puma, and I will drive it.

Especially with the weird 2 (or 2+suicide) door requirement. Perhaps not the sort of modding Ryan was looking for, but I heartily endorse a single-cab Tundra with the TRD supercharger.

Even Kia got in on it, back when the Rio was a completely miserable pile, instead of an acceptably mediocre pile.

Yeah, that’s where I learned about it.

The follow-up Escort Cossie had a pretty ludicrous biplane spoiler as well, although apparently there was some desire to make it a triplane wing from the factory. That would win out if Ford followed through, but yes, the Merkur/Sierra deserves the nomination here.

In my particular experience, it was a Chevy Chevette, but the important things are;

It’s okay Owen, we accept that you’re not a man of taste.

In Honda's absolute slightest defense, they've announced 2023 pricing and Toyota hasn't, and could widen that gap quickly (although the fuel savings would quickly negate that).

I don’t know if Honda’s particularly good about honouring cross-border warranties, but it looks like the Canadian market still gets the LX for 2023 (at a bit over $20k after current exchange), or an EX at $22,600.

This is probably more a peculiar marketing decision rather than outright badge engineering, but for about 20 years, Chrysler Canada chose to sell a handful of models (Laser, Dynasty, Intrepid) as Chryslers rather than Dodges. Absolutely no changes other than badges, and it wasn’t a dealer network issue (all Chrysler…

Eh, Cadillac had the original SRX on the market at the same time - while a RWD-oriented Saab is ostensibly wrong as well, it’d be a little more suitable (and it looks like it wouldn’t make a huge pricing difference either, both the SRX and 9-7x started around $40k at the time). Especially since the 9-4x used the 2nd…

The 9-7x (the Tröllblazer) has got to be worse - a modestly sized turbo hatch makes a lot more sense for Saab than a big BOF SUV.

The nail sticking up was the last one in the Corvair’s coffin - GM had already signed off on ending any further Corvair development a few months prior to UAAS coming out (I think they’d pretty much committed to the Camaro as their sporty car future at that point). I’m fairly sure some even believe that the controversy…

If anything, Unsafe At Any Speed is the misunderstood part. It wasn’t a “hit job” on the Corvair, it was a treatise on how the US auto industry neglected safety as a whole, and just used the Corvair as one chapter as a case study to highlight the neglect. It called out plenty of other models, essentially put forth…

Asüna badges.

What makes you think they ever intended to sell it in big numbers? It’s literally a factory concept car.

I want to say the F150 was a Lariat - pretty sure I remember leather seats, certainly Ecoboost, it wasn’t a basic work truck if that’s what you’re getting at.

Let me put it this way - we all know daily driving a Jeep Wrangler is kind of stupid, but most don’t care because it doesn’t really have any effect on us. Full-sized pickups, likewise, are fine if they stay out in rural areas where they make sense. But bringing a 3-ton battering ram that’s hard to see around into…