Maybe 17 different body styles on your base platform (4-door coupe crossover?!) and excessively overpriced and over complicated enthusiast models isn’t the best strategy. Also, if you can certify yet another body on a platform, you can certify a manual.
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Pedantic fact: the current VC-25s used for as Air Force One are not 747-400s but are 747-200s upgrades to the -400’s avionics and engines. Note the size of the hump on top - much smaller than the -400.
Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, dude
“Isn’t the Liberty pretty widely considered terrible by the Jeep community?”
Must be renamed Shockster.
Ha! Well I close to Cloudburst if that convenient.
Dean, if your ever in Seattle I’ll buy you a beer. There’s not a lot of people whose minds would IMMEDIATELY jump to exactly that on seeing that headline. Bravo.
I’ve long had this strange fantasy that I would like to tour Yosemite in a Phantom Drophead Coupe. Perhaps this would be more appropriate?
Tragic! We did the same drive every year from New England down to spend time with the family in Florida. If we didn’t get to stop, we would have made life unlivable for our parents - and we made them stop in both directions! Once we even stayed at the more because it was our midpoint. It was shockingly not bad, though…
Agreed, these are classic Americana.
Keep Portland Weird.
Fun fact: they took the name Amati from Nicolo Amati of the Italian violin making family who was Stradivarius’ teacher.
Even worse. China is also looking to Brazil to replace the US as a supplier, and the nationalist they just elected has a history of favoring the destruction of Amazon rainforest for farmland. The US will lose jobs and the world will lose a critical ecosystem.
Actually looked at the current 3-series sportwagon when we replaced our 2010 A4 manual sedan. Ended up buying the X3 because it was still fun to drive and had way more usable space, plus at that point what the hell. Would have rotated the 2007 out first but there were no manual wagon options to be had anymore.
“Being that CarMax relies on trade-ins and outright sales from owners, it’s possible that drivers are just more reluctant to sell or trade in a manual-equipped car.”
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Stratos was my first thought too, especially the greenhouse.
Well when you throw theft into the mix then it’s an entirely new level of crime. I do like the idea of creative punishments that have some sort of overall benefit to society, it’s just that those so often aren’t punitive enough, and that was one of the OP’s concerns. But you’re right, make them do something to HELP…