The value of the Deutsche Mark dropped quite a bit between 1970 and 1980 (going from about 4DM/USD to almost 1.75DM/USD), so odds are the relative price increase is from Porsche accepting they’d have to raise American pricing to compensate.

So, will the retrofit be handled similar to a recall, at no charge to the customer, or does the $50 discount just entitle these people to pay substantially in the future?

I think it’s just a function of modular supply. Its not a function of needing a chip to make its supplied seat heaters work, its needing a seat heating module from the supplier...which has a chip (or should)...in order to have heated seats. They would have to re-engineer their seats to solve it otherwise.

We had a dart, that same car in brown, and bags stood up fine.

That was the work of the former Audi CEO Johan De Nisschen that Infiniti recruited. Audi had already labeled all the Audi crossovers as a Q something or other and De Nisschen decided to go “full retard” on this decision when he joined Infiniti.

Wait, what? Has Mike morphed into Jason?

I dunno if I’m projecting, but looking at Mike and you is like looking in two separate mirrors angled back at me. Not sure how the kid or two made their way into that one mirror, but otherwise yeah.

Groaned at the comment about customers not watching TV.

I don’t know who I heard say it, but they said it best, “Employers love to talk supply and demand until it comes to labor.”

It’s as if generations of wage suppression across the entire economy are suddenly being blown apart by a collective refusal to take any more of it.

I pay property taxes on my land and it will go up if the value of my land goes up. Maybe we should have stock taxes to make the whole “stocks are like houses” a reasonable comparison.

he also bought 750M more in tesla shares during the dip after his twitter poll manipulation. he also got way more than 14.7M in tax breaks. that was the absolute minimum value they were going to give him. del valle had to give him 68 million in tax breaks. then the state gave him another 50.

Tires, tires, tires. Nothing transforms a car’s driving dynamics like tires. You don’t have to buy super expensive tires to improve ride, handling, noise, traction, etc.

Thank you. I think some people try way too hard to find a reason to be upset. Bunch of keyboard warriors with opinions forged by nothing other than a picture and a few high level specs. It’s been what, 20 years since the Integra existed? Do people expect nothing to change with regards to technology, market conditions…

Except that you can’t get a Civic Si hatchback.  This car is for those 132 people. Me being one of them, if was in the market.

Show the court on the teddy bear where Jalopnik hurt you.

Website infamous for its snark and distain for modern vehicles upset about snark and distain for modern vehicles from its users.

Love it. Have never driven one, but always strongly suspected these are solid, even desirable vehicles maybe because of all the histrionic shade thrown their way for “retro” styling (which never seemed offensive to me).

My Fiesta ST has been an absolute dream. And I think most of that has to do with the powertrain and the fact that I recognize it for what it is, an overpowered lunchbox. I do not mind the squeaks and rattles as they come, and I also have just enough power to get out of my own way. Also if you drive around with the…

That’s actually the opposite of what the Fiat is doing. That’s flipping up - which is the HOLY SHIT WORST POSSIBLE WAY TO HANDLE THAT OPENING (former grocery store bag boy who had the great misfortune of having to load a PT Cruiser convertible and still is haunted by it) - while the Fiat is going down with an…