The 6 is dead in North America, but it got the turbo engine towards the end of its life. Quick, but they were aiming more for luxury with that one.

I’ll go one further - every single Mazda. They already want to be a budget alternative to the Germans, who do M/AMG/RS versions of just about every car they build. I’m not saying I’d have bought a Mazdaspeed CX-5 (because I’m cheap), but I’d have lusted after it stronger than the regular turbo I wasn’t willing to…

Make it a GMC Savana and get Mr. T on the phone ASAP.

Wait, sell a car? You can do that? Basically everything I’ve ever owned has been so worthless by the time I’m done with it it’s totalled, scrapped, or donated (I did trade my Mazda2 in, I asked for the BlackBook number, I got it with no protest).

My father-in-law has a new Silverado (for towing a travel trailer), and I think he likes it fine, but thinks it’s a bit stupid compared to the Nissan Frontier for loading stuff in the bed (and I think if it were feasible, he’d rather just have one of the Nissan Hardbodies he had in the 90's back).

My kid likes motorcycles too, and will sometimes waive them out of excitement. It got him a waive back a couple weeks ago while we were out on our bicycles, and I instinctually did the two finger waive. From my bicycle. Because I'm an enormous dork.

I learned to drive in a Sundance. It was absolutely a boring car, but my parents must’ve lucked out, because they got a good one (that, and it was a ‘93, later in production). In 10 years and 120k, we had zero issues, and it had plenty of life left in it (something we couldn’t say about the Pontiac Sunbird it…

Eh, ìt was pretty widely acknowledged to have gained weight from the original target moreso than it ended up with less engine than intended (although they did plan on a turbo option if they hadn’t gone defunct).

I’m only a few years older than you, it’s a franchise that was still releasing content in our lifetime, it’s not like it’s people getting excited about a reproduction of the space capsule that got launched into the moon face in that silent film. Hell, I’ve still got the BTTF2 Micro Machine set (with the DeLorean, Hill…

Dancing Robots seems really ominous to promote your assorted self-driving products, as it’s just a matter of time until The System Is Down.

By that logic then, could something like the Honda CR-V or Pilot count? They’re fairly boring, but Honda does virtually no fleet, so they don’t get the rental bump their more boring Toyota counterparts do.

Bring it on, but if we’ve jumped from late 60's to late 70's nostalgia, Ford better have a deal hammered out with whatever private equity group that currently owns Eddie Bauer by 2026.

8th gen Civic. Slightly biased because I won use of one for three years in an auto show contest, as a broke college student (also, the contact at Honda was very happy to source a 5-speed for me, instead of the auto I was supposed to get). I don’t know if I get excited to see one exactly (they’re still abundant, even…

On the other hand, I believe the Hyundai Sonata my parents bought in 1990 was $12k CAD, or $24k today (roughly), which would get you into an Elantra today (albeit one that's about the same size, far quicker, safer, more efficient, and generally better built).

I find if I type a few characters of comment before pasting the picture, it works fine.

Hey, for more than four years, I managed with a 2 as the sole family car. It meant my wife almost always rode in the back (especially during the rear facing days, and even a small stroller took up half the hatch), but it was loosely speaking doable. Really had to make sure to do a test fitting on that first car seat…

Anyone fearmongering about demographics is pretty much just flat out racist unless they’re cool with increasing immigration to compensate for natural population change. But it’s not entirely baseless to say that a vehicle big enough to accommodate three car seats is expensive and a hindrance to having a third kid.

Even uglier as the redneck truck trying to run Clark Griswold off the road.

Well, yeah!

It’s very quick, it’s a hatchback, it’s even not that much less efficient than some of the entries here! I’m just gonna say it, the Corvette was a hot hatch.