You mean Maverick Adrenalin!

The Cadillac CT6 Blackwing...I mean I’m actually not sure that scarcity made it better. I just really want one.

I remember this car when I was growing up. I think it was on the cover of Car & Driver at some point, and as a kid I thought it was the coolest.

Sadly, despite Buicks popularity where I lived, I barely ever saw one of these. I think I’ve seen three in my life total.

Not sure about the execution, but 100% agree with the logic.

I feel like a lot of their appeal lay in the fact that they could hang with the performance cars of their time for a lot less money. As time went on performance cars got faster and better, and the STI/EVO kind of stagnated. They got bigger, heavier, and more expensive without necessarily scaling up performance to…

I lived in Pakistan for a couple years, and saw quite a few Honda Crossroads around. Struck me as the spiritual successor to either the Element or the first-gen HR-V.

Being a car shopper seems like the coolest job on the planet. How do you even get to this?

I am 100% in agreement of the PT Cruiser take here. I used to read a lot of British car mags growing up (didn’t have access to anything else), and when the PT Cruiser came out, it immediately launched into the super-competitive mini-MPV segment in Europe. This included the Scenic, A-Class, Multipla, Picasso, and a…

The base model 911 is all the 911 you need.

And she’s not wrong. I have my in-laws visiting, and I don’t currently own a car so my mom lent me her Elantra Coupe. It hurts me to watch them get in and out of the car, and honestly makes me wish I had something more practical to drive them around in. I was planning on getting a Jimny, but I’ve now written that off…

Wait, so CX-Single digit is mainstream Mazda, and CX-Double digit is premium Mazda?

Otherwise, why do they have multiple cars in each segment?

Something about this reminds me of the Levante.

I don’t think any of the Corollas in Pakistan are imports from the US or Europe. They either come from Japan or are assembled locally.

Living in Pakistan for a few years taught me something about luxury cars. Corollas and Civics are priced there like E-Classes are in many markets (taxes and whatnot), so many of the wealthy end up buying them. That means they have tons of options available (many dealer-installed) that otherwise wouldn’t be available…

It’s really a shame that smaller MPVs didn’t take off in the US the way they did (at least for a while) in other parts of the world.

I borrowed a friends Kia Carens once, and it was literally the most practical thing ever. Insanely spacious yet not too big.

Specifically the Land Cruiser Prado. Those things are EVERYWHERE. I have never been to a country where some variation of it wasn’t available or popular-ish.

Great off-road, great on-road, reliable, durable, and spares should be available everywhere. Thoroughly modern too.

A close runner-up would probably be the Hilux.

You’re right, I totally missed that Holden is actually dead.

To be fair, as much as we love the RWD Holdens and Fords from down under, I don’t think the average Aussie cared for them as much.

Yeah, so GM ended Holden production in Australia and now it basically just sells rebadged GM products from around the network.

Volvo S60 Polestar. These things were supposedly limited-production M3 competitors, and they looked awesome. I got my hands on a press car once when they were new, and man was I disappointed. I wanted to love it, but it just felt kind of...dull. It didn’t feel nearly as exciting as the blue paint and slick wheels let…