Certainly by 1980, when this brochure came out, the Chevette was pretty outclassed by its rivals from Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and Mazda. While we may love rear-wheel drive, in this context—a small, efficient hatchback—it was clearly a less efficient and roomy solution, an archaic holdover so General Motors didn’t…

This isn’t a reliability survey. It’s an initial quality survey covering the first 90 days of ownership.

JD Power has several different surveys. This is the “Initial Quality Survey.” They also to a “Vehicle Dependability Survey” which evaluates vehicles that are up to 3 years old. While 3 years is within warranty on many vehicles, for anyone who drives more than 12,000mi/year, part of the survey period covers costs that…

Try presenting actual facts next time.

You’d have a point if it also weren’t true that GM has poured billions into Cadillac giving them their own unique Sigma, Alpha, and Omega platforms, as well as the new Blackwing V8. Cadillac’s sales have failed to take market share away from the Germans, which was their whole intention.

Perhaps I should have been more specific with use of the word “This.” By “This” I meant that Budget believes he stole a rental car and he’s having to go through the whole rigamarole of getting it rectified. He returned the car a month ago, so obviously he’s not going to be driving the stolen car and put in a situation…

It happened yesterday to Deray McKesson, a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement. He returned his Budget rental a month ago.

And the TT-RS cost, what, $75k? So it’s not exactly a huge buyer pool to begin with.

I’m gay. They’re fine, I guess...

Cadillac ELR, anyone?

It’s not just new platforms. Those electric vehicle platforms will use far fewer parts, be far simpler to build, and employ far fewer people to supply those fewer, simpler parts down the supply chain.

...he says as wages are essentially stagnant despite massive increases in worker productivity.

I am so bored by Audi’s styling these days. Back in the ‘90s, I literally held my breath each time they launched a new model because whether it was the 1st generation A4, 2nd generation A6, or original A8 and TT, it would prove to be a stunning design departure from its much more conservative predecessor. It would…

Well, the C124 E320 coupe cost $62,075 base in 1994. That’s the equivalent of $106k today. The 1994 E320 convertible listed for $77,300 base, or the equivalent of $132k today.

Cutting edge? This thing looks like an angry Corbin Sparrow, like Goldmember drove. The design details would look at home on any sporty car from about 10-15 years ago.

From 1999-2005, Chevy gave us the TrailBlazer as an upscale trim level of the existing S10-based Blazer from 1999-2001, and a larger, more powerful and luxurious GMT360 SUV slotted above the S10 Blazer, which continued as a cheaper 2-door model, until 2005, when the S10 Blazer was finally put out to pasture. The…

The C124 was also wickedly expensive, especially in convertible form. Like, $65k in 1994 dollars. It sure was glorious, though. How could mid-1980s styling still look so clean, so smooth, so elegant in the mid-1990's?

The IIHS is a private insurance industry-funded organization. Not a government agency.

Hubris is why. Toyota was riding high on the Japanese Bubble economy at the time. They could do no wrong and, if they did, the Emperor was always able to quietly funnel money their way to make up for it. Until the crash came.

Also, that chassis was an advanced spaceframe design, not your typical workaday FWD unibody chassis. Not every car has to be a BMW M3 to be fun or have merit, anyway. Thank God.