AKA the “One-Price” Escort, so named because you could get the 2-door “Sport”, the 4-door sedan or hatchback (with alloys, eventually, but no spoiler or the other stuff) or the wagon (with plastic hubcaps) for the same promotional list price. It was heavily advertised in both car and general magazines and on TV at…

It has a manual transmission AND comes in an actual color!

There’s also the matter of “go-away” prices. Let’s say a dealership gets in one of a super-rare and sought after model. They maybe can’t not list it for sale at all because of tax/insurance etc regulations but don’t want to sell it right away - they’d rather have it around as an attention-getter and for test drives to…

They fell off a cliff at that point, but there was already a sharp downward trend as the market moved on to the Next Big Thing. 

Automakers couldn’t build such a thing *now* if they wanted to. Even the original Trabant wasn’t what it would become when it first came out, in 1958. What made it a symbol of a failed system was that between then and 1989 it had exactly one update, fairly early on in the mid-’60s. 

It really should be one sub-brand. Call this one the Raptor Line.

“...and I said, ‘I’m the only boyfriend till you’re 25 years old...”

If it’s anything like the original H2, sales will fall off sharply after everyone who wanted one and can afford it already has one. 

The writer could have real problems with the Academy. The sort where it might be better to give up on showbiz now, move back to the ol’ hometown and sign up for electrician classes.

This is why EPA goes strictly by interior volume and ignores external dimensions. 

“Sakes alive, sakes alive, only Mazda’s got a sporty truck for just $5995!”

They’re doing it backwards though. The idea shouldn’t be “put a nice lounge in the charging station”, it should be “put a bunch of chargers in the Friendly’s parking lot”.

Medallions should’ve been tied to a specific VIN and non-transferable to any other vehicle, at that. 

I bought one of the last Fits just before the pandemic. The HR-V’s problem is that everything they did to the platform to make it a “crossover” rather than a “hatchback” strips out the Fit’s fun factor and makes it objectively worse in other ways. The Fit was simply a better car for less money than an HR-V but they…

Frankly I’m sick of hearing “Until some impossible EV hardware standard is met...”

Has it been stated there’s no rear wiper or is it hidden in the upper spoiler like on the Sienna?

Of course we know who you are. Ted Cruz. Senator from Texas, Republican from Hell. You’re Canadian by birth, most likely Russian by paid affiliation at least until the checks started bouncing, and your pronouns are it/eww.

“ Why anyone pays the extra for (a Cadillac Escalade) over a Denali or whatever Chevy calls it...”

Somewhere out there there are suburban soccer dads with office jobs whose sales resistance and masculinity are so fragile they buy one as a daily and to tow a boat five miles twice a year. But the usual use case for an F350 dually is fifth-wheel towing of farm implements, in New England/upstate NY at least they’ve all…

IIRC the US Escort got very good reviews and the Euro one very meh ones. On the rare occasion when an American auto journalist got hold of a ‘90s Euro Escort in less than Cosworth spec they couldn’t hide their surprise at the American one being a better car in its’ base and “warm-hatch” forms.