Just quintessential Japanese family sedan. Lightweight, roomy, good power, nice handling, reliable, tasteful styling. Everything you want and nothing you don’t.

Long Live the 4th Gen

I think they might have considered it until Ford and RAM went to the Eurovan platforms which don’t tow nearly as much as these dinosaurs. The Transit and Promaster are better vans overall, but these Expresses serve a purpose that no other OEM is really filling (since no one seems to want the Nissan NV). A LWB cargo…

I see Maximas all the time. People buy em.

Had one for a rental this winter while my car was in the shop and I understand why: the car is designed to check boxes.

It’s not a good car. But it has a ton of features standard. Those features aren’t executed very well, but it has them. And for a lot of people that’s good…

So basically law enforcement just didn’t care about drunk driving where you guys were from. Wild.

I expect the dealers will still stock the most common/best selling configurations that offer the dealer good margins, so a buyer like yourself will have no trouble going to the dealer lot and getting exactly what you want. Just expect it to be one of the middle-to-upper tier trim packages and a relatively inoffensive…

Perhaps impulse was the wrong word choice there. How about “immediacy”? Buying a car off the lot may be planned for, but it’s also a purchase made with more urgency than ordering something that may have a lead time of several months.

Interesting to think about. I’d be curious about the demographic makeup of the repeated DUI population. Do they tend to be lower income (maybe getting caught because the cars they’re driving are more likely to have something visibly wrong with them to justify pulling them over), or is it evenly distributed across all…

I worked in production and quality control for years. The biggest detriments to production are always poor planning and bad management.

It’s like you guys knew I was gonna be all up in the comment section of that Maverick story lol

If fitting different options is enough to meaningfully slow down production in the year 2021 then you’re doing production wrong.

But, given the US auto industry’s well-earned reputation for making excuses about why they can’t do something they should have no trouble doing, it wouldn’t be too surprising I guess.

That, in my opinion, should be how cars are sold. If you’re impulse buying you should have to pay the price for that. It would be better for the dealers because they could keep fewer cars on smaller lots and make better margins on those cars. And it’s better for the manufacturer because they aren’t making cars they…

I remember reading this study a while back that said that only about 1% of drunk drivers are ever actually arrested for it, which is just staggeringly low.

I would really like to see more automakers go back to encouraging made-to-order sales.

I wonder if drunk driving will make a, uhhh, comeback of sorts as more and more cars become equipped standard with all sorts of driver assists and various levels of automation? Will we even know if more people are driving impaired if the death rate continues to decline as cars become safer and safer to operate while…

They’re crazy here in WNY right now. I’ve been taking bug spray with me everywhere lately.

I think Jalops would have a hard time not suggesting something good.

I’d like to see if we can come up with a car that universally ruins everything it touches. The Energy Vampire of cars.

I was down in the thriving metropolis of Bradford, PA, over the weekend (went to check out the Zippo museum) and I did a little walking around/street photography while I was there. It’s a good little town and it has a ton of very good buildings and alleys that make perfect backdrops for setting car photos against.

It…

I read it in the Lieutenant Aldo Raine voice.