It has nothing to do with overall marketshare and everything to do with consumer preference.

When Honda sold the Fit for ~$19K MSRP, dealers made only $500 in profit. These are absolutely being sold at a loss.

Oh, good, Tesla is selling a rebadged Hyundai Kona now?

The ID4 is still a hard sell for me just because of the window switches. This is still a solution looking for a problem. Between that and the horrible infotainment software, they couldn’t pay me $149/mo to take one.

This is a great example of the difference between the US leadership approaching a situation with caution, adapting to meet customer needs, and acknowledging that they were wrong vs. the German bosses who steamroll ahead thinking they alone know what’s best.

Cadillac has the backing of the massive Chevy so it can afford to be a niche brand, while VW is a volume brand with single-digit marketshare; they can’t afford to have anything preventing a car from getting sold, and manuals definitely take longer to move off the lot.

What’s wild is that there’s only one car on that list that I’d buy with my own money - the EV6, but even then, I really hate the refreshed front fascia in the latest, now eligible, model. That light shape looks more like a cheap Kia Rio now - specifically the Rio’s foglight area. IDK why you’d soften an otherwise aggre…

You say that like it’s a bad thing. The back’s far more interesting than the front.

Also 6'5" and sure, I can sit in an NA if I don’t mind my vision being completely blocked by the top of the windshield. I can’t even physically fit my knees under the ND dashboard.

The logic of the motorcycle applies to what we now consider small, underpowered cars, but 15-20 years ago were just common cars.

Yeah the last mile problem seems to have some solutions with those scooters or rental bikes and such, but taking one all the way to the airport (like in the story) on the regular seems like an extreme edge case, given most city airports are not usually in the middle of town.

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: