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Behold the new Lancia Delta! (in Fiat form):

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“Thinking man’s full-size truck”? Meh...

With that grill, it looks more Hyundai than Toyota.

Can we get a Tourist Trophy out of this?

All DLC for GT Sport was free, except that weird Lewis Hamilton time trial thingy.  They released something like 100 cars post-launch, plus a number of tracks, and didn’t charge a cent for them.  I’m not too worried about microtransactions.

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Jalopnik, can we please get an expose on Lit Motors as well?

Ford Flex. It wasn’t a flop, but selling a little over 300,000 units during a run of 12 model years wasn’t enough for the blue oval. Selling a CUV alternative is tough when your customers overwhelmingly prefer a regular old CUV. The cool and funky wagon-ish vehicle lost out bigly to the generic blobs. Sad!

Only 35k ever made over a 4 year run. Partially because GM killed the brand (along with Pontiac), and partially because it filled a niche between the Corvette and Miata (and the base level competed directly with the Miata)...an answer to a question few really asked. 

The Pontiac G8 and Chevy SS never sold well when new. Blame it on inadequate marketing buzz from GM? But of course these days, 10 years later, good examples are selling for almost the original MSRP.

Not a U-Haul they did not have the model Bradley has when I rented this. It did not go so well, got to visit Gary Indiana for fresh right side tires,

Mazda 5.
They are incredible little mini minivans. You can get them with a sweet dash-mounted 6-speed manual. Their cavernous interiors are amazingly functional, and useable because every seat can fold flat individually, or leave them all up for decent 6-person seating. The sliding doors are perfect for loading kids

It had a dual tailgate/hatch combo.

If the iQ had been available with stick I might have considered one.

The answer is Suzuki Kizashi, right?

78 Dodge Challenger, made by Mitsubishi, it was actually the best generation Dodge Challenger :o)

Man, I lost all desire for these kinds of machines a while ago. I’m not sure when it happened, exactly, but at some point I discovered that ‘serious’ performance cars just don’t interest me. They’re too intellectually heavy. There’s no figurative lightness to them. They do what they do - and they do it exceptionally

Does BMW really NEED an X1-X9 ???

Crossovers.