Clearly that isn’t hurting their sales any ..... people increasingly don’t know enough to care.

Counterpoint: When I bought my new washer/dryer, more people then expected asked me all sorts of details about what I got, and started geeking out on my new LG appliances. To which I replied, “Sure?”

It’s the Corolla of compact SUVs, and all that implies.

People who are REALLY into something, anything, are always to be treated with caution.  Doesn’t matter what it is: Cars, guns, manga, religion, whatever it is getting too into it is unhealthy at best.

americans are emotionally and psychologically fucked up and have no value for human life.

Trump’s great innovation was to give people permission to be mean. No more hiding one’s amygdala under a rug. I recognize that many people are frightened by change and unwilling to change their lives to adapt to changing conditions, but the auto industry is a business that must make money and produce cash flow to…

There’s people out there still salty that Pontiacs didn’t use “Pontiac engines” when Pontiac was on life support lying on it’s death bed. Death threats about a +15 year chassis dying doesn’t surprise me.

“...he’s already receiving death threats for the changes.”

They’re probably the same folks who can’t handle the current Charger having four doors. 

The MAGA cult is violent towards literally any change they don’t like. 

Ford Panther platform was from 1979-2012, 33 years.

“he’s already receiving death threats for the changes”

The fuck is wrong with people? Seriously? Its a fucking car. If your life is made so horrible by a car no longer burning dinosaur goo, consider yourself lucky to have no real problems in life.

It’s the old LH platform with Mercedes suspension design. Always has been.

Car will probably weight 3 tons if they do that.

I am shocked they aren’t just going to stick the electric bits on the 30 year old platform and call it a day.

Palestinian Chicken might be one of the funniest episodes of TV ever made.  Holy shit is it good.

So it doesn’t smell like seat foam and plastic outgassing? That’s the smell I associate with Toyotas (just like the smell of jute / horsehair and a faint tinge of slightly rich exhaust is the smell of an aircooled VW).

I know you’re going to get dragged for this, but thank you. The nose knows. I work at a new Subaru and Chevy dealer, and the Subaru plastics smell warms my heart. The Chevy plastics smell, I’m not as fond of, but the point is, you can tell what the car is by the smells.  And honestly like come on, the whole interior…

Old VWs smell like crayons. new ones smell like nothing

Nothing makes me smile like the smell of a 90's-early aughts Lexus leather interior.