What about a Bronco EV?

I still stand by my first impression that the Bolt is a better-looking car than a Tesla Model 3. The Bolt is, or was at launch, a contemporary-looking tall hatchback with styling details that successfully makes it look more upscale than the Sonic it’s based on. But it’s in desperate need of a midcycle refresh.

There was also a need to work around the 5 MPH bumper standards, which included “no damage to the lights” as part of the standard.

I have to wonder if the sides are just a particularly bad render and it’ll look better in person. I’d advise Hyundai to massively ship these in light colors and deep jewel tones and make that charcoal gray all-but special order only. 

I think its’ strange there was no Toronado convertible. No droptop Firenza either, which left Oldsmobile the only division without a ragtop at all in ‘84-5. 

Small, underpowered, tacky, I wonder why GM and ASC bothered with making a convertible of this Eldorado rather than just doing a Cimarron convertible which would’ve been plug-and-play in ‘84 since the Cavalier and Sunbird ragtops hit the streets in time for summer ‘83.

The convertibles were always rare, to the point I didn’t even know they existed pre-internet, but the coupes certainly did do their turn through the low end of  the used-car trade in the ‘90s when they were around ten years old. 

Yeah and if it started out at all optioned-up I’d want to keep the original deeply, barely-even-trying but oh-so-70s fake wood on the dash. 

Big, showy gender reveals are tacky as hell at best, problematic for the reasons described wrt gender idea on top of that.

Since this wound up on the sidebar of Jalopnik, I’d like to point out that the 2008-09 GM bailout was repaid by 2014 and still gets held over their heads. 

Seriously, the ONLY vehicle to pull over a classic Bug with should be a 1968 Plymouth Fury.

Maybe with a chromier front inspired by the DBS’ “base Torino” face;

S660. LS6. Call it LS666. 

In ‘55-56 nothing quite matches the “rightness” of the Chevys, particularly post sedans and wagons. Everything else GM was gilding the lily.

Goof point. Especially if it’s port-installed. 

The question I have is, why the swivel? The dash doesn’t move, the heater levers move on their path but obviously don’t move back and forth with the front seats, why does the spotlight need to move? Especially if it cost VW a tenth of a pfennig more.

They were worse than what had come before in terms of room. The Mustang killed space efficiency for a whole generation of cars because Detroit applied the long hood/short deck look to EVERYTHING. Look at old Popular Mechanics owner surveys and the complaints about tight back seats, small oddly-shaped trunks and wasted…

I could see the point of this as a launch ad campaign but after three years?

You could buy cars for $3800 in 1975 that weren’t as cynical as the Granada or as stripped as the Rabbit which was overpriced due to the $/DM relationship.

 My ‘95 had single-point injection. It might’ve been a late carb holdout a few years before.