Because these vehicles will outlive every single Jeep Patriot ever made.

Their design life is 30 YEARS. 30 goddamn years of 6-days-a-week stop-and-go service carrying 1000 pounds of boxes and letters through every bit of shit that doesn't qualify as a state of emergency. A Patriot or any other consumer vehicle cheaper…

Especially since Dodge's grille design is making them too narrow for a crosshair. My Dart's is already so out of proportion it looks more like a long chrome stick with a notch in it. On new Chargers I'm seeing around town the crosshairs are blacked out and almost impossible to see.

There was already one huge protest by French motorcycle and motorbike riders, and one drivers' organization said the plan would lead to three-million vehicles being scrapped. It's also being slammed by MPs who represent people in the Paris suburbs and don't have easy access to public transport.

Two reasons I can think of:

Same drivetrain as my Dart and it has a sixth gear.

500's have had a 6-speed Aisin automatic since they were reintroduced to the US, just not the Abarths until this year.

As for the Renegade and 500X...the 1.4T trims are built to a price meant to draw in people to the showrooms and then upsell them. Realistically you'll never see more than a handful of 1.4T…

Platform-sharing is not good enough for "substantially similar" since platform mates can vary wildly. The Transit Connect and Focus share a platform, but good luck convincing the average non-car person to believe it.

Dealer demos don't really bother me, but that's because the last two cars my dad bought were dealer cars. First was a '99 Camry demo, fully loaded, for an out the door price about the same as a basic one. Second was an '08 Camry that was an M-B dealer's loaner. The '99 went a decade with only two problems late in life…

I know, I'm an engineer. Designing a part to fail in a set amount of time is more work than we want to be bothered with (or management wants to fund), so it's more a case of "this design will fulfill it's role for the design life and we can't really be sure about after that", where the design life is set at however…

Buses are easier for a transit authority to operate, but they don't carry the full benefits of light rail (note: light rail includes but is not limited to streetcars, the main distinction being that streetcars run at street level in the flow of traffic and other light rail systems may be separated from car traffic.)

The…

They're not mutually exclusive, the planned obsolescence results in higher parts/labor profits as the used car requires maintenance.

Punctuation matters:
"Your driving pleasure our joy" is butchered English.
"Your driving pleasure, our joy" is a sentence

I see the design language is progressing right on schedule...

Stop it, you're making me want to get a W222 once depreciation hits them hard enough.

I saw the lols coming the moment you said "Guadalajara". Never taken a taxi there, but been subject to their rage, especially when my dad and aunt decided the busy evening when the late workers are getting home/the early partiers are taking taxis to clubs was the best time for my brother to learn stick with me in the…

From the stuff published so far on FIAT's website, it seems the 500X will indeed generally offer "more" (standard A/C on the lowest trim being the most visible example). Whether it's the right kind of "more" to get people to pay is an interesting question.

While true for enthusiasts, I don't see that happening in the wider public, else Town and Countries would have ended production long ago in favor of Grand Caravans.

No fancy anything with the manual. No keyless entry, no dual zone ATC, no 9 speakers....I mean come on, none of that shit affects the engine.

The Landy is nearly a foot and a half shorter.

Here you go.