“Additional safety items like blind spot assist, lane keeping assist, etc. are nice but not deal breakers.”

Mustangs had optional power steering, and I think it wasn’t integral so would be easy to add. And a power brake option. Neither would make them better, just modernly easy. Of course a lot of people do disc brake conversions on cars like that and probably there’s a figured out way.

Hey that’s a Deep Dish Lifeguard Safety steering wheel. 

The steering shouldn’t be that bad. And speedometers then were generally on the optimistic side, but only a little. Either just old, or maybe radial tires?

Perhaps the only car ever that looks good with a vinyl top - at least as good as the standard version, in a slightly different way. 

Cars did a whole lot more evolving in the first 50 years than the second. Only about 40 years from the Model T to the Shoebox. And really that car isn’t that different from a new sedan. 

I didn’t know about those. Hyundai however thinks they are a “....forward-thinking SUV for a fast-paced life, Venue was made to conquer the city.”

Besides, Pleiades not Bow Tie. 

Honda has also steadily grown the size of the Civic, like Toyota with the Corolla. Even the second or third generations were the size class of cars that aren’t sold here any more. So bye bye Fit and Spark anyway. 

The EcoSport is from the previous generation style Fords, on the previous Fiesta platform. They haven’t come up with a new one even in Europe yet. When they do Ford US will have to decide whether to sell them. Meanwhile there seems to be some market for this class here with the Soul and Buick Encore (although those…

I was shocked when I first saw an X6. The Neue Klasse guys would have been horrified. 

What is the secret to posting a photo here? 100x50 or less?

I know they are much better cars now, but after the Arnage period they are just posers. It’s the last one I would really want. 

Doesn’t sound German to me. Does sound Mexican though. 

Origami/Transformer style is not confined to this Hyundai. It’s all over Japanese car design, except for maybe Subaru, which sidesteps the whole style thing by not having any.

GM has a reputation to uphold. 

Real Tucson is way bigger than Santa Fe, but car Santa Fe is bigger than car Tucson.

Tests with driving simulators showed that driving while talking using speakerphone is as distracting as holding a cell phone to your ear. It’s not the device. It’s how human brains work. We can’t really multitask well. When talking to another human who isn’t there you create a little theater in your brain which…

*OUCH*