In general, Toyota might be doing the most work to hybrid-ify their entire lineup (minimal gains from the Tundra hybrid aside). Hybrid RAV4's and Siennas might not be as exciting as a bold, new EV future, but they’re efficient cars people are lining up to buy.

Put down a deposit on a new Mazda on the weekend - going with the red was pretty much a given, especially when the other choices were greyscale or a pretty subdued dark blue. To the dealer’s credit, they had a red one in stock (the other two of the same model/spec had sold earlier in the week), but it was already…

Brown Manual Diesel Pixels!

I haven’t seen a Medallion wagon in real life in about 15 years. My local fire department had one they were using for jaws of life training after it was presumably totaled from a rear-end hit (sad it survived 20 years of being French and orphaned just to die from something so mundane).

The culprits;

Keep getting Kinja’d on the image

If you got the analog gauges (sorry, GM, so GAGES), they had the delightfully quirky touch of splitting out the metric and imperial figures on separate sides with their own needles (well, you know, same needle, moving in the opposite direction).

I’m sorry, whatever roundup you pull together in a day or two is invalid unless you can get John Davis to weigh in.

I know Steve Martin didn't first host until the second season, but they should still find an excuse for him to play himself. 

Also, is he implying people aren't racing Miatas or Porsches or BMW's (if a Mustang is a sports car, so is a 3-Series) globally?

Great Circle? Was that the placeholder title and someone just forgot to come up with a real title? There was talk of angels, call it Heaven’s Belt or something (bonus points there as a red herring that everyone’s looking for a literal belt when it’s metaphoric). I mean, even that could be punched up a bit, but I’m…

You mean you don’t love a key design that was foisted off on some of the cheapest DaimlerChrysler era stuff?

Shout out to Ford and GM requiring different keys for locks and ignition, supposedly so you could hand the ignition key off to a valet not have them get into your trunk. So much concern for security in an era when you could walk up to any random car in a parking lot and have a reasonable chance your keys would start…

Starting to shop around for a new car now, looks like I’ll end up settling on a Mazda CX-5 as the most tolerable option. No major problem areas, and nice enough I shouldn’t despise it in 10 or 15 years.

It would cost more to import than to acquire it, but with no real exposure to it, I love the original Renault Twingo. The dream of the 90's is alive in Twingo.

“Do Not Ask Again For 7 Days” is the biggest lie of at least the past decade.

This is generally a good thing because putting the shifter in the centre console for an automatic is mostly a waste of space, buuuuuut...

Yeah - likely the same principle there (the new GT was only ~4 inches taller than the GT40, and it was a recognizable design element), although a bit more compromised for something meant for more real world use.

Anything where the manufacturer elects to buy every single one back rather than figure out how to stop them from catching on fire is easily a top contender for worst.

Wasn’t the point of the GT40's doors basically that the driver could enter the car standing and step down, rather than having to fold themselves into a hole barely more than two feet high? Fine on a race car where there’s probably enough room to consistently throw the doors wide open enough the roof panel isn’t an…