In form and spirit, perhaps, but the original 2-door Insight ended production a year before the start of the 2nd Gen Fit and 5 years before the CR-Z, so those latter two were more contemporaries than either was to the Insight.

This makes sense. In Japanese mirai (ミライ) means “future”, which not only explains the futuristic Ride Pokemon’s name, it also fits with the long-shot hydrogen-powered Toyta Mirai fuel cell car that they keep trying to make successful.

Same - I always thought the ELR was to the Volt what the Honda CR-Z was the Fit - same underlying car, just made coupe-y and for a much more niche audience.

Just had a friend buy an old Volt and cannot find a replacement for the worn out batteries in the thing - he’s down to just 8-10 miles before the generator kicks on. Just as a fair warning to anyone considering that the cheap price comes with biiig asterisks.

This. If you don’t like airplane noise, you can look up if a house is in a flight path of a busy airport, or at the very least home buyers should have paid better attention to the noise before moving there.

Yeah, but with that rectangular belt line and a smooth aero roof, it has the weird “roof from car A glued onto car B” just like the Jaguar I-Pace

I know I’m the CRZ guy, but 1000% to the interior discoloration on the Volvo. It took me months to find a used CRZ that wasn’t stained like crazy. Something about that mid-2010s gray cloth does not perform well at all

Mazda 6 owners: Didn’t Mazda start adding torque vectoring to all their cars around 2020-21? Could that be what’s causing it?

“This is NOT the electric car that they want the brotherhood to have.”

I would rather pay $50,000 for a Stinger than get the Dodge for free.

The roofline shape and the body shape don’t go together; the latter is too big

Don’t have a home or thermostat, so I can’t relate, but as I said in another comment, I only change the temp once a season.

I have auto in all of my cars, and it is either too soft or too slow to actually cool/warm compared to just manually controlling fan speed. I’m with you, though, in that I don’t get why temperature is always given priority, given that I adjust it maybe 1-2 times a season. I mess with fan speed and vent direction far,…

We’re pissy because HVAC requires regular adjustment and the Auto function often doesn’t work well or fast enough to keep us comfortable. Other than the steering wheel and turn signals, I’d wager I interact with HVAC more often than I do my infotainment.

Most people don’t use the “Auto” function in their HVAC. At least in the US, drivers either don’t know what it is or get confused by how it works, so for most HVAC is a frequently- and manually-adjusted control. You can see evidence of that in how much people hated the touch HVAC controls in the latest generation of…

Peak blob generation - and always my go-to example when talking 90s styling - is 3rd gen Taurus

Especially when the shifter is all the way forward!

Honda CR-Z - Other cars have this problem too, like the old Audi A3 and to a lesser extend A4: the cupholders are under the protruding dashboard, so you are both limited by how tall of a drink fits AND this requires you to perform a particular maneuver to lift them up, then out towards you every time you want to…

Imagine getting a car this cool looking and getting it in boring ass black on black. If you wanted subtle and forgettable, buy the Audi.

Counterpoint: if you buy a early 2010s Cadillac you have to use the horrible capacitive buttons and sliders, not to mention CUE. All those silver bits are not rockers or buttons, they’re capacitive plastic chunks.