I don’t understand it at all. GM turned the Camaro into a world class driver, by nearly everyone who ever writes about. Then they do a mid generation face-lift to make it one of the actively ugliest cars you can buy. Then they bemoan slow sales and plan to kill off the name plate again.

I agree. I’m not a truck guy, but I do understand the appeal that a truck is capable to tow X thousand pounds (and most truck owners know what that tow rating is, even if they don’t have any intentions of ever towing), just as easily as it do the standard family moving.

My 97 Cavalier had center console window controls. I miss that a lot. It was the ideal place for them!

It didn't matter, you had to have the key in the on position to work that trunk button.

Yep, this. Or for a parent going solo with their kids who are too young to sit up front. Don't have to walk around the car to load them into the back seat.

Have you seen what David drives? That Edsel is showroom fresh by comparison!

Not currently, but I think they’ll be increasingly using modern chip designs to gain more battery efficiency out of their EVs.

Cars will be increasingly using current-generation semiconductors, for the same reason that they are being used in iPhones. They are more electrically efficient, which will be more important for EVs.

Oh, that wasn’t what I came here to say, but I want to change my answer tothat now.

I disagree about the washer fluid. I’ve tried every specialty washer fluid there is. The anti icing stuff in the winter, the bug washing fluid in the summer, the best choice for me always is the blue stuff. I just try to buy plenty of the blue stuff with the lower freeze rate in the winter time.

I barely remember the blue-on-yellow plates. They were phased out in the early 80s, I think. I remember a few older plates being yellow, but most were the yellow-on-blue.

My dad taught me to drive in snow and ice by saying, “work the peddles like your stepping on an egg”. 

Espeically while driving!

I can't argue with their success, but I still think they were ugly.

The first part of your rant is non-sensical. I am not worshipping or idolizing Richard Branson, nor are most of people who are acknowledging the feat. At the very least, it’s a counter to the oddly high number of people hoping catastrophe would happen for Branson or Bezos’ upcoming flight.

Did Alan Sheperd not actually visit space until Apollo 14 then?

There is a weirdness as the automotive industry moves in the electric age. These things are probably not going to last like ICE cars. There is less reason to build a purpose built performance car when your average sedan has the acceleration ability of hand-built drag racers.

Wirecutter isn’t owned by Amazon. They mention it in the damned article. And you can buy shit from whereever you want, but you’ve been using AWS whether you want to or not.

I have a 2006 Outback, which is very wagon, not SUV. Just at a glance, the Crosstrek appears to be closer to my car than a 2021 Outback.

That was my very first thought as well. I drove my grandfather’s Tempo for a little bit in high school, then in college, my girlfriend drove a Tempo. So my sample size of two confirms.