Mazda: “Look at this awesome new Mazda2 you can’t have.”

This is very sad. Two giants and legends of the auto world, wandering around like befuddled Alzheimer’s patients trying to remember how to make money.

The really sad thing is that there weren’t really any major mechanical updates since the Echo, not just the first US-market Yaris.

The difference between old money and new money is that new money needs to spend money to impress, old money doesn’t need to impress.

The additional people were added so that they didn’t leave out any engineers from the team :) You’ll also notice there are now women in the photo. Hopefully that detail gets past your “OCD.”

There’s one very interesting difference between the old Volvo ad and the new one. And it’s not the car.

No. Not even close.

Not all! and there’s a reason for those.

Low spec cars have the side turn signal repeaters there. The high spec cars, have the fake vents and side repeaters in the mirrors. So they need to fill the hole with something. Cue in fake grilles!

anecdotal vs vast majority of studies out there. Glad your experience worked out for you though.

Except that it was more durable than the Tacoma. The only way it could be more reliable and economical would be to add a spinnaker to it.  

Nonsense. The Echo and Yaris are basically the best car ever made. This was the highest volume car platform in its day. And in terms of overall dollars per mile , the Yaris simply cannot be beat by any other car, hybrid, EV, gas, diesel, motorcycle, or anything else. This is the first and last car anyone would ever…

Other than a shitload of them are still running fine?

Not really a volume model.

I think you’re looking at the wrong market if you’re only looking at performance and not the overall package... 

You don’t mess with a Country that has dueling earth bulldozers.

Yet another great story of GM standing behind their fantastic products. Just like the they did with the other major issues in their products notably the ignition switches most recently. This is why i will never ever own a GM product. 

You realize Chile is a safer country (by not a small margin at that) then the United States right?

I was pretty excited about DriveTribe when it launched. I created a profile, looked for people to interact with, and got confused by the whole thing.

Ah, so you’re of the mindset of “If it won’t work 100% of the time, and only be beneficial the vast majority of the time, why bother at all?”

You don’t actually mention in that condescending post why would it be damaging/unsafe to pop it into neutral at 10mph and brake to a stop. But please, tell us what the “Italian who well knew his stuff” said.