It’s like the CRX if it really lets itself go...

Most people also don’t know that the first generation BMW X5, the e53, was also available with a manual and the 6 cylinder engine in the US. Was looking for an older BMW wagon this summer and couldn’t find one that fit the bill. Ended up with a 2005 X5 6-speed. Honestly it’s pretty awesome.

Over a half-century of progress wiped out by one pro-racist president. Make America Hate Again has been a resounding success but usually we can count on corporations to be the grown-ups in the room and make it clear zero tolerance means zero tolerance. GM didn’t do that here and in fact encouraged it.

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38 is officially tshirt weather in february!

I don’t understand the love this thing is getting. The Mazda CX-5? Great. The Miata? Outstanding.

Ohio’s nowhere near the south...sorry, yanks, it’s all your’s!

I’m not black either but I do oversee a fair number of employees.

Maybe if he was just a floor worker. But a supervisor?  He should’ve been fired immediately after saying that.  Nobody that thinks that way (especially to the point he feels comfortable just blurting it out) has any business supervising people.  There’s no way you can trust him to treat all the workers equally.

“one white supervisor at a meeting said: “What’s the big deal about nooses? There was never a black person who was lynched that didn’t deserve it.”

What in the actual fuck is wrong with these people?

Its only “childish” if you make it boy racerish like the Civic Type R or Focus RS (and admittedly like the old MazdaSpeed3s). Make it like a GTI and its not childish at all. 

“As a brand we are trying to elevate again a little bit more, because execution of Mazda MPS or Mazdaspeed 3 or whatever you call it was a little bit – I am not afraid to say it – childish.”

I was 100% team hatchback, but after seeing this one, I’m now 99% team hatchback. It just looks... off.

Same as all the others: two years from now, under $35,000.*

You’re a goddamn moron.

Just out curiosity, why all the recent coverage of almost nothing but cars most people can’t afford?

I make a blogger’s salary

Small tidbit of trivia. The original Nissan L20 engine was derived from a Mercedes-Benz engine that Prince had bought a license to. In particular, the valve train was cribbed from Mercedes-Benz.