“Mustang-inspired” involves grafting a Ford Edge front end onto an Escape, apparently.

Roger Penske is a very smart man, and those smarts have made him very successful both in motor sports and in business.  I’m sure he’ll have the series operating Indy black before too long.

Backtrack

I’m actually surprised it took them this long to finally add a RWD model to the regular lineup. I know Audi = Quattro but they already built limited-run RWD R8's and they are very much in demand on the used market. Now just bring back the manual with the gated shifter and I’ll shut up.

Agreed, the California Highway Patrol is ditching the Explorers for the Charger, and they look mean and awesome.

I know it’s easy to hate on the age of the Charger platform, but the fact you can get an almost 500 hp Scat Pack new at some dealers for around $35k does make them intriguing.  For someone like me with multiple kids who is trying to avoid SUV-dom, it seems like a decent option.  At 6'4", I’m used to having to push the…

Neutral: For personal vehicles, never. Lawsuits will kill it all.

2021 Celica confirmed?

I was on the fence about having kids

Eighties Asian, I’d go with a Nissan Maxima. CP for the Toyota.

A company like Superformance or Factory Five needs to get on making Pantera kits. Modern Mustang drivetrain with power steering and good brakes would be just about perfect.

Did you see the 404 page on Peugeot’s website? Simple genius.

I feel like this is 100% accurate, if you made it New Maserati.

You can’t take a heritage car and bring it back as a rehash of another brand’s car. There is no excuse for Toyota doing this. Toyota knows how to make a sports car, and even if they wanted to be totally lazy, they could’ve taken the Lexus RC and started there. 

So this whole crowd already knows what this car should be, compared to what it is. Dumping the manual and farming everything out to BMW sure makes business sense, but gearheads aren’t swayed by Toyota’s business sense. And gearheads are the only ones who would’ve bought this car anyway. The normies will get a C8 or a…

I think the problem here is that you can’t actually market this thing to people who don’t know about cars. There’s no wool-pulling. It’s not like the Urus (I finally have an excuse to drive a Lambo!) or some heritage-laden tweedmobile (Careful with the Jag, darling).

Lots of car names became famous to normies for…

454 billion? Can we fix the roads and schools first.

1st Gear: If this sounds like the whole Cash for Clunkers program to you—you’re not wrong.

has to make money somehow

I think EV’s will have market share but we’ll see a split in the next 20 years. 50% gasoline, 40% gas/electric hybrid, 8% EV and the rest will be split between Diesel and Hydrogen.