Nothing, really - TourX was the only mid-size wagon other than the Acura TSX(?) sold in the US in decades. Now you’re looking at 3 row crossovers as the closest equivalent.

In March 2024, he threw out the idea of a 100-percent tariff on Chinese cars built south of the border.

I regularly travel between midtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, and it is noticeably less congested and absolutely quieter everywhere I’ve been. There’s still more cars than you need, but it feels like a Sunday traffic-wise, even on a Tuesday.

No business school, just 7 years actually working for VW corporate to understand what decisions go on behind the scenes.

TIL thinking “going through unnecessary steps every time I want to do something as simple as opening my windows is annoying” is a phobia

It definitely seems like we’re arguing the same thing here: a large marketshare is a reflection of meeting consumer preference.

When I was buying a Fit in 2019, the dealer showed me their invoice pricing book to explain why they had no room to negotiate on final price.

No the Rio looks great, but it is and looks like $20k car, as opposed to a EV6 which is 2-3x that

As someone living in NYC, you’d easy hit 20 min of walking just going from your start point to and into a single subway station, and out from the endpoint station to your destination. If you leave the office to get lunch, that’s another 10-15 min walking. If you go grocery shipping, that’s probably another 20-30…

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.