Go back and read my last sentence more carefully.

NP all day long.

A couple of points:

That 6 mpg (combined) difference is a 28% improvement - that’s non-trivial over the life of the vehicle. Basically it’s saying that the smaller vehicle is going to use just over 2/3rds of the gas over its lifetime.

This isn’t from the “heyday” of these cars - go back to the mid-70s for that - when these things were truly rolling land yachts so big they needed their own lifeboats.

Assuming the car is real, at that price, it’s worth the price.

NP ... if you like these.

The driver made his luck roll ... on the other side of the coin, he’s dumber than a sack of hammers.

I love these little things, but not that thang.

I must admit that I was always perplexed by the Cimarron - what was going on in GM that made them think that tarting up something as crude as a 1st gen Cavalier with power windows and a leather interior would make a competitor to a BMW 3 series?

Depends on where you are. If you’re in North America, these things didn’t exactly sell in large numbers. I’ve only ever seen a handful of them that I can recall.

NP if you’re looking for a project.

I remember seeing 5 year old S-Coupes (their first attempt at a sporty car) looking in far worse shape (bodies rough, blowing blue smoke, etc) than nearly decade old Honda Civics in the 90s.

We got the 4 door Pony in Canada during the 1980s.

I’d like these insurance companies to back up these idiot conclusions they’re drawing from this study with more concrete data.  Otherwise, this looks too much like a cynical attempt to increase the scope of what they call “distracted driving”.  

No comparison. Headlight design is about projecting adequate light at an appropriate distance so the driver can see the road and obstacles in front of them without blinding oncoming traffic. Europe was way ahead of North America on headlight design in the 70s, and it was regulators in the US that held things back…

Nope.

At a hardware level, this all makes (some) sense. Yes, there are going to be components that standardize to some degree or another. I’m even going to go so far as to say that the standardization is a good thing. Common connectors, data bus architectures, etc. certainly have their benefits.

Hard No for me.

Well - that’s as close to a justification as I’ve ever seen. Still hits the “what a waste” button pretty hard.