Programs become more advanced because we as humans expect more.

I had a 500 Abarth. I can tell you for a fact that the most you can reliably increase the power to and still have some semblance of reliability is around 200hp.

I think the problem is that you’re paying Focus ST, GTI, and WRX money for Fiesta ST and Elantra Sport performance.

15 years ago a computer with 256MB of ram was considered to be amazing too.

Sadly, the 2018 GTI does not get a power bump.

I’m not sure if it’s worth it over the Civic Hatchback Sport. The difference there is just 25HP/15TQ. The LSD and brakes would be a plus, but realistically most Si bros are going to swap out the suspension and wheels anyways, so I wouldn’t put any value into those for people who plan on modding the car.

The GTI is severely underrated from the factory. Dyno runs on stock GTIs have it closer to 260hp at the crank.

Except the GTI has 33% more displacement than the Si. One has to wonder just how much power that 1.5L mill can squeeze out...

I wouldn’t mind driving a smaller car if we’d stop giving licenses to people just for having a pulse. Until the DMVs institute a real driving test, I’m going to get something that’ll protect me and my family if (and when) we get hit.

I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree then.

That doesn’t sound particularly modern to me...

Are you sure it’s a mechanical speedometer? Just because it has a needle doesn’t make it mechanical...

FYI even the “analog” speedometers in anything built during the last couple decades are just displaying digitized information collected via sensors, so if the electrical system fails, those speedometers aren’t going to show anything either.

People did complain about the lousy truck motor that we got in the 240sx, especially considering that the home market got the two-liter turbo.

I am disappointed. I was expecting to read another Ryan Felton hit piece on Uber but instead found an objective piece of journalism.

I like the objectivity of a) and c). That’s what I use to distinguish SUVs and CUVs, even if it means the new Explorers and Pathfinders qualify as CUVs.

That’s fine with me if it means I can get in before the $10,000 tax credits run out.

Considering that CR’s own long-term Giulia has been to the shop three times already in the first month, I wouldn’t count on it.

Not sure...I’m thinking that even a humble Civic back in 2006 was safer, more comfortable, and more reliable than the Mirage.

It doesn’t help that the Dodge Dakota no longer exists...