As a CRZ and GTI owner, the Prelude has the potential to give me the best of both worlds, so I’m very much looking forward to it.

It’s wild that I’ve seen three Fisker Oceans in NYC given that their problems lasted as long as they did. Did they make them in any other colors, because I’ve only seen the matte blue ones.

in areas with robust transit, they’re still slower than those other options

By “trapped by traffic” you mean “entered a rail crossing when unsafe to do so”. That’s no different from the idiots who enter an intersection when there’s no space for them on the other side and then they block everyone

I get that there’s a lot of ungated crossings, but that seems like the time you especially would want to look either way before crossing the tracks

I would have sworn there had been a factory Hellcat option for these, but extremely limited in quantity or super expensive?

I have never understood why train crashes happen other than human stupidity. This is as controlled an environment as you could hope for with a fast-moving object: a train can move one of two possible directions and can only move on a fixed path. They make noise, be it from the vibrations in the rails, the flashing…

I live in a very walkable city with good transit, but jump at any chance to do things by car. IMO the main reason that I wouldn’t drive on a given trip is because it’s all the other people you have to deal with while driving that make in less enjoyable.

The automatic Miata quote explained the automatic Sport Compact one:

Yeah because a Sienna or Odyssey are are all two feet longer than a Mazda5 - that’s a LOT more car to park, clean, maneuver, etc. A Fit is ~12" less than a 5 but definitely part of that is due to the shorter nose.

Dang I forgot that it lasted that long!

This is far more easy on the eyes than the Rivian front end. I really like everything else about those cars, but I can’t help but seeing those droopy DRLs as a children’s toy or sad robot

While individual SUVs and trucks have sold well, they as a vehicle class didn’t make up the majority of vehicles sold in the US until last decade:

Remember when cars got too big and expensive after 1978 and then we pivoted back to buying small cars again?

Right? I was going to say, I sure miss the Fiesta, Golf, Fit, Focus, Mirage, etc.

Maybe not the immediate generation prior, but a Civic in 2000 was about the same size as a 2018 Honda Fit (164" vs 160"), and an Accord in 2000 (186") is about the same as the Civic today (184").

If your priorities, like mine, are aesthetics and handling, this is an easy trade off. Beauty is pain, as they say.

That’s a reassuring comparison, thanks.

From other Jalopnik articles: 30-50% loss on average in the cold

The EV6 has been top of my list as the first EV I’d buy once they become cheaper, but