What surprises me about XJ Cherokee doors is that the 2-door stayed in the line right up to the end. Given the low take rate that got lower over the run, by the mid ‘90s it must’ve been a production bottleneck to set things up on the line for one of them.

A successful covid vaccination program now that production is ramping up and real experts are being put in charge instead of Jared, will lead to more travel starting with road trips first. 

Towards the end the value proposition of the base Golf was way off; VW.com at this writing lists the starting MSRP as $23,195 compared to $19,995 for a base Jetta. That’s a lot for basically just a hatch and rear wiper, maybe a more sophisticated rear suspension. 

Mostly I was thinking in terms of putting the Pentastar V6 in the bigger ones.  

Good. Better to use Peugeot’s more America-ready models, suitably re-engined, to expand the Chrysler lineup than relaunch yet another brand and another dealer channel.

It doesn’t have to support its’ own dealer channel, though. That’s the point where expanding-volume concerns overcome cheapening-the-brand ones. 

I liked Saturday Night Live’s version better;

Shouldn’t the 7er have a German accent and the iX a Southern one?

Lectric Leopard;

I mean, if you’ll unlock your car with a smartphone app in the future like Tesla does already, why not a GM app icon and specifically why not a GM one instead of separately logo’d Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and GMC ones? It’d be like a return to the old corporate keys;

IMO the Fit Crostar should be the new HR-V anyway. No more gimcrack “hidden” rear door handles.

I’d be a serial car buyer. High-end or not - readily replacing a Saoutchik-bodied Delahaye with a Chevy Citation or vice-versa. When being late isn’t an issue because you’re the boss and you can always call up a new Tesla anyway, why be concerned with dull matters of reliability?

3rd: Resigning at 12 days to the inaugural is the coward’s way out, she’s avoiding having to vote on the 25th Amendment. 

3. Fixed costs of car ownership in the  UK are insanely high and resale values depressed by the fact the limited market for secondhand exports of right-hand-drive cars is amply served by Japan, leading to abandonment of cars that would be kept on the road for at least another 10 years in America. 

The Fit is a lot more spacious in general, it feels like easily half again the amount of usable space a Fiesta has, in the same footprint.

12th is the biggest problem spot on these ‘boxes, once they get some miles on them the 12th gear detent is either balky as all hell or barely there. And it’s completely unpredictable which way it’ll be. You either get stuck in 12th and can’t get through it even with quantum-double-clutching or have to guess where it…

“Meghan McCain’s face...is not...a Cadillac Seville,”

It would be fun to have a Triumph Acclaim, but I want it left-hand-drive. Was it sold on the Continent or am I looking at sourcing just the badges from the UK, and a gen 2 Honda Civic sedan separately?

I wonder if GM ever considered a version of this for the US market. 1975 was the last year for all the big cruiser B-body convertibles except the Caddy that got one more year, 1976 was the first for the Chevette which was part of the  same T-Car family as the Kadett...

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.