So is this another brand name being applied to GM’s Ultium electric skateboard? Honda is already rebadging Ultium on its upcoming Prologue crossover. If this is on Ultium as well, where exactly is the “Honda”? GM running gear, Sony styling and sensors, Qualcomm “brains”.

It absolutely has to be the Toyota JZ family. Do you want “enough” power, outstanding reliability and sewing machine smoothness? 2JZ. Do you want 1000 hp? 2JZ-GTE.

Stellantis already sells a smaller pickup. The Jeep Gladiator.

1. Ugly. How has Acura not learned that people do not like a bird beak on the front of their vehicle?

It only just qualifies as a car from the 1980s, but I can’t think of another car that shook up the status quo in the 80s as much as the original Lexus LS 400. Production began in May 1989, so it technically was built in the 80s.

A bespoke car for a rich person that hates windows?

My parents had a Chevy Astro when I was a kid. I don’t remember ever seeing this ad, and this would have blown my mind as a child. The rendering looks way too “good” for the mid-1980s.

Definitely the wheels that came on the Lexus SC 430 (the hardtop convertible one). Yuck. 

Non-interference valvetrain. A broken timing belt is a bad day, but not an engine-destroying nightmare. I have one of these cars, and the door hinges are an example of the great things that bubble-era Japan could do.

Since it relies on ride height, one can assume it will be useless once the rear leaf springs have sagged a bit. 

“I can’t find out for myself how well the 155-horsepower one-liter Ecoboost hybrid fares in everyday traffic.”

Tesla can build a ton of cars with few employees because it accepts dogshit fit and finish quality. Conventional automakers won’t be able to do this because their customers won’t accept it.