Yes! This stuff is fragile, shitty trash. Vinyl does the same job cheaper, arguably better environmentally, lasts much longer, and can come in any kind of colors or combinations (even though they’ll still only offer cars in black). The difference between MB Tex and leather can only be noticed when, after 20 years, the…

Is that a pic of a real car? It looks more like the pic of a $5 1:18 scale model.

My Legacy never rattled, but they did have wind noise. The fix was to stick a 1/4-3/8” piece of tubing between the folds of the leading edge of the weatherstripping and that made it … well, not so much worse than its competitors. I do wonder if that’s part of the change, though—meeting higher standards of NVH than…

That was my initial reaction, but I thought it might be an illusion owing to the greater visual weight of the upper part with the arrow, so I used a ruler on my screen and found that it is centered. That’s not an excuse, though, as any designer should be aware of the phenomenon and that sometimes things have to be…

Wood chipper (feet first). Think of the money that will save the government over incarceration!

I think the font is a little too small and I don’t like the serifs with what’s trying to be a pared down aesthetic (I generally hate serifs, anyway, so that might be my bias talking).

But, when they did have the frameless doors, I remember reading reviews criticizing them for being cheap pretty much in the same issue where they’d call frameless doors elegant on some German shitbox. Losing the frameless doors is one of the reasons I stopped buying Subarus. Sure, the alternates also have frames, but…

I’ve never owned a car with plastic cladding, but the ones without have all had those same problems, plus paint chips.

It IS a weird shape. It could at least fit the lines better.

I don’t understand the modern sedan model. I get the extended roofline profile for aero and interior space, but it leaves no room for a proper trunk lid. Might as well make it a fastback, but Mazda tried that and the sedan out-sold the nearly identical looking liftback. In that case, the 6 had a decent trunk lid, so…

Yeah, as someone who’s driven aggressively in all kinds of conditions and “roads” or even just deals with the effect of New England winters, the plastic cladding would be welcome after a couple years of ownership, if not so aesthetically pleasing when new. It’s like those junk German cars with the nice looking…

I think we’re thinking similarly, here. I don’t mean that’s a lot of miles in terms of being used up, just that it’s a lot for finding a way to use this kind of vehicle that much. It’s really cool, but yeah, where do you use it? If you don’t live on a property where you could make use of it, it’s going to be a kind of…

It couldn’t have been that bad if they didn’t notice too much of a smell while driving. The body was in the trunk—just throw out the liner and decontaminate it. I don’t know what it was, but it obviously ran, so it’s probably still worth $5k under pandemic pricing. Of course, that would require disposing of a body…

Probably just a white that is actually low maintenance. Pearl white is expensive to repair. Might as well get a real color at that point.

As long as the top gear and FD ratio are well matched for highway efficiency, I agree. I think that the automatics of whatever POS permutation does better in testing and probably for your average (moron) driver compared to that same idiot with a manual, but I have always beat the rated highway mileage with my manual…

I think that’s got to be the reason—point at hard numbers to finally tell us die-hard manual lovers to fuck off. No, Honda, I’m already saying that to you (if the two guys at work with early engine failures in a CRV and Pilot and my BiL’s major issues with his Civic Hybrid weren’t enough already).

I think it’s a terrible deal only bested by the even-worse Mazda3 pricing. I paid less for my Focus ST and the previous post-2005 Civics I drove were underwhelming on the fun and handling factor, too, much like the very overrated, better-than-a-Corolla-I-guess Mazda3 (though I haven’t driven the last 2). This is $25k…

Well, that’s definitely off my list. Fuck you, Honda, you’re overrated, anyway.

I think the energy vampire angle was inspired genius as I’m sure we’ve all known people like Colin and it was like they wrote the part with Mark Proksch in mind.

I’m thinking that’s fairly high mileage for a 2020 to me. How many miles can one likely put on at a time? It’s not street legal and serves little practical purpose for use. It is really damn cool, though. I had forgotten all about these things.