I’m gonna be straight up: This thing, to me, looks good. Not “good for a Pinto,” just good. I love the shooting brake style, I think the lines of this model work quite well as a wagon, and the woodie panels are icing on the cake. Interior looks nicely sorted, too.

Matter of personal opinion. I personally prefer the generation being sold.

Take a 4400lbs car.

Now that’s a crossover. As in, I’ll cross over to the other side of the street if I encounter this. Do I even need to say ND?

My folks had 6 FIATs in a row 2 127s, a 124, a 128, a Ritmo and a Regatta, and they were absolute troopers. The Ritmo was my first car, and its 1.3 liter 65hp carburetted motor carried me around the motorways of Europe for years without a hitch. My eyes roll when I hear the endless “Fix It Again Tony” jokes from…

In 2022, $2500 cars don't usually have all four wheels.

No Guts No Glory

When these first came out, I thought they looked great, but I tired of the lines pretty quickly.

Most sunroofs today have a tilt up feature that does for airflow in a modern car what the front triangle windows or rear pop-out windows used to do

I was so glad to find those reports when I was shopping, I was so close to buying a Honda with a 1.5T in the Midwest and between the oil problem and them taking for-ev-er to warm up enough to blow hot air in the winter (already something I dealt with on my supercharged Mini in the past) I decided small turbo engines…

Agree about sunroofs for the reasons you cite. I also like having them to vent while the car is parked.

Fuel in the oil will burn off once it’s up to temperature. Seeing fuel in the oil just means that the car was run for a few short drives. I’ve had oil analyses come back with fuel in the oil, but it was because I just started the car up to drive on the ramps and drain the oil. Same vehicle on the next change I parked…

I’ve heard this from friends who own the 1.5T model Civics and CRVs.

A turbocharger.

Touch Screens.

FSD: full self-driving, my ass.

My father had back to back Plymouth Reliants for company cars. They were decent, around town transportation.

Not for $40,000, it doesn’t, and I love a good micro van/RV/trucklet. Far too many people buy them for <$7k, have them barged over as an import and immediately fall into the delusion that they’re suddenly worth crazy amounts of money just because they’re clean, small and #JDMAF. Throw the vanlifers into the mix and…

I don’t know what “ethical oil” arguments are but I’m about as far from them as one can get. I was there cleaning up the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which soiled my home state and the fisheries that put me through college. My point wasn’t that cruise ships should be given a pass, it was that they’re an easy target when…

I’d argue it took GM until the Cruze to figure that out, and Chrysler still has no idea.