I like the powertrain and interior condition, I’m not so hot on the rust and missing doors. Best use would be to rebuild into a rust-free four-door donor car. 

I’ve been wondering when they’ll become turn-of-the-millennium-retro hip for a couple years now.

I snagged one of the last 6MT Honda Fits, I plan to keep it at least 10 years and then go to an EV.

I know I’m late to this but it seems not unlike how Americans at the time were putting “Keep Back - I’m Flammable!” stickers on their Ford Pintos.

He doesn’t buy hair grease by the 90-gallon drum like Junior and Eric do, so that lessens the family resemblance. 

Technically, the Spark was never a sedan. It’s always been hatchback-only at least on the US market.

I always thought “318ti” should’ve been “318tl”; “three doors, eighteen years too late”

For that matter, why doesn’t Daimler sell a Freightliner Metris like they do a Freightliner Sprinter?

Yup, 2ZZ/6MT was FWD only. AWD was not just the base engine but a *specially detuned version* of the base engine and auto only. Made me wonder what the weak spot in the driveline they were trying to protect was.

I did, in the last year of the product cycle with a huge question mark hanging over whether the next generation would come to the US at all (it won’t).

There’s at least one Pontiac Vibe in one of those picutres. 9th generation Corolla platform, you could get one with a 2ZZ and 6-speed manual. Unless it was in a crash it’s still on the road, probably not looking much worse for wear except for the Pontiac arrowhead fading to a delicate pink. 

I have limited sympathy. It shouldn’t happen to anyone, but it happened to a good chunk of the 7,160,476 total anyones who’ve had covid in America because he handled it so badly. Conservatively, half. 

We’re mostly talking college here but I’d say the only non-open-book test someone should encounter between 6th grade and a bachelor’s degree should be the driving test. 

That’s due to technical limitations. Films are scripted months in advance of production and go into wide distribution months - sometimes a year or more depending on the level of post-production digital effects needed - after that. Any statement made in “real time” would be well out of date by the time anyone saw it. 

“Trump has suggested over and over again that he’s interested in being president for anything from four to twelve more years.”

XJ 3.4, 4.2 and 5.3. There was also the XJ12. What there should’ve been was an XJ Glider Kit, where the car’s shipped with no engine and you add your own Chevy V8.

They need to sway four Republicans. Murkowski’s already said no. It’s possible Mitch might hold off until after the election both to use it as an issue and to avoid putting Rs who are hanging by a thread like Collins on the spot.

The irony is that if it shared the front clip and doors of a Corolla, had a manual transmission and 50 more (or fewer!) horsepower, it would BE an interesting car. 

2nd; “Under President Donald Trump, NHTSA has never had a Senate-confirmed administrator...”

I definitely see a lot of common hard points, but I also see a 2020 car rather than a 2005 one.