I still think of 100 years ago as being horse-and-buggy days. That’s a car. It’s not even a “horseless carriage”, it’s a fully-realized car. There doesn’t even seem to be any brass on it.

They never even took possession of the 2nd Defender, the dealer damaged it irreparably with the wiring splice they had to make over the course of installing the official approved Land Rover accessory winch. 

“...literally why not just go to neighborhoods with a bag of taillights and give them out.”

FCA needs to lay off the lawyers and get the engineers to work on a smaller, simpler, cheaper mini-Wrangler if they think this is a market worth going after.

My last rental was a Fiesta, half a size smaller inside for the same footprint than the Honda Fit I ended up buying but otherwise similarly more-than-OK to drive. I was specifically after a manual while I can still get one so the Fiesta’s DCT issues didn’t bother me - and it wasn’t bad short-term in a rental that was…

I keep forgetting about those, the only post-2003 cars I’ve owned have all been hatchbacks.

It’s a shame the Dauphines sold new in the US would’ve lacked this feature due to mandatory sealed beams. Too bad the turn signals - which would’ve incorporated parking lights on US cars as we’re mostly familiar with - weren’t mounted on the hood where a similar setup could’ve been devised.

It reminds me of pre-computer-animation Family Guy when all the cars were generic except Brian’s Prius. It was a running joke that worked on two levels - not just how he fit the stereotype of hybrid early-adopters but that the only car that was a recognizable make and model was owned and driven by the talking dog.

A single universal standard would be great but...

I got the sense that there was a period where BMW would not allow Mini to build a 4/5-door car and this, on top of the half-doored Clubman is the final product of that era before they relented with the first Countryman.

And imagine that further souped-up to being a Lancia Delta Integrale whose Nonna had gone through Ellis Island.

In my mind’s eye the Gr. A homologation version would have much less Shelby identification - one small decal nestled between the capital O and the dot of the i on the Omni hatch badge - and be available only in ice blue metallic or maroon metallic with matching interiors like 90% of the base models seemed to be.

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I agree, it belongs in the pictures. It could even have a role as the kid protagonist’s parents’ car provided said kid bikes or rides the school bus everywhere and gets his own car (something RWD and at least mechanically related to something with a following. Or at least easy to fix like a non-AC manual Chevette)…

It sort of reminds me of those old 15-passenger vans you were  going on about, a couple weeks ago, in that they just tacked more vehicle onto the end. Only difference is that this is (a little more than) half-height. 

- IMO they didn’t resurrect the right Wiig characters for the moment. I wanted to see Target Lady behind a plastic shield and Gilly in Zoom school.

When will they finally separate their design language from Ford’s? That’s a nice looking car but it looks more like the new Escape’s big brother than the new Explorer does.

I mean, I’m not sure why else Ford would have bought a Saturn except for a Sandy Munro-style teardown to see what the competition was doing, after which it may or may not have been cost-effective to reassemble and sell the car-but if they did they’d have done it right away. 

1st; We’ve gone from Silicon Valley destroying jobs faster than the rest of the economy can make them, to Silicon Valley, the rest of the economy, and the virus seemingly teaming up against them.

Can you still manually turn the a/c on with the heat? In that case the Corolla has the ideal setup. The last two cars I had turned A/C on with defrost automatically with no override which just means the heater needs to fight the A/C system to get some heat to the windshield on really frosty, really cold mornings when…