Pretty much the only assumption on New England weather you can make is that you can pretty much expect every type of weather possible in a 2 week span. Difference is, it is colder in the winter when it does that.... Sometimes.

Another outstanding writeup on a car that was a favorite of mine growing up. My orthodontist had a white twin turbo, and I would always ask him about it during my appointments.

Boy the interior of these things hasn’t aged well has it?

So what you are saying is, we just have an ible.

Counterpoint: I’ve been getting badgered by Honda. I don’t even own the vehicle anymore. I’ve received at least 8 postcards, and I respond to each one checking the box “I do not own the vehicle anymore.”

I would not kick this out of my driveway

The madman who did this truly is doing the lord’s work.

I miss my 2004 6 hatchback hard.. It was a phenomenal car.

Little rusty, but probably runs better now than my 97 grand am did when new

That Acura TL is probably still running with 300k miles on it somewhere.

The ecoboost flex is on my short list of family haulers. The only thing that has stopped me so far is the poor MPG’s and the hesitance over buying a twin turbo vehicle.

You may be the most committed smart car owner I have ever come across. I gotta respect that. Plus go for a cabriolet if you’ve never had one. Switch it up :)

Well now I need to know.. Why do you have 3 smart cars?

Is there any reason why you wouldn’t buy an Abarth 500 Cabrio over this car?

I think the important question here is.... Ecoboost?

Preach brother. Came here to say this.... (and did, before reading all the comments and seeing your post)

Can we get Radwood: East in the process? The East coast 100% needs a show like this.

My sister had one of these things. I think it had the cheapest hardest plastic interior I have ever seen.

FCA should buy this thing back and study it. Clearly they got it right!

Like anything, it depends on who you talk to. I know guys that kept them stock and didn’t have any issues that were outside of the known ones.. Granted there were a list of known ones. Clutch engagement issues, leaky diff/transfer case, smoking turbos after 100k.