Except these are the go to “sleeper” for car people and people think that all Mercedes wagons are fast now. I’ve heard teenagers in a parking lot talk about how amazing a basic E wagon was.

Zero percent financing could absolutely make a comeback. I’d argue it sounds better to customers in a high interest rate environment.

Many folks want to transition to hybrid or electric vehicles to reduce or eliminate their fuel costs, but if you end up paying thousands over MSRP for an in-demand car, you’ve neutralized those savings.

The Charger was always going to get an ICE. There’s no way that Dodge is giving up the police market.

I’m pretty disappointed by what we are seeing as the future of vehicle performance.

My dad didn’t have a lot of money but he ran the largest Chevrolet dealership in the state for years

This one goes out to all those people saying that people paying the the markup on the Z should “just go buy a GT-R instead.”

the supercharged V8 reminded us there’s no replacement for displacement.

The 3 cylinder could be the Celica, with the 6 being the Supra.

They claim the FA24T doesn’t fit because of the turbo placement is too low, which is believable. But the G16 will totally fit with mods to address the hood clearance.

This is probably something dumb said in some ideation meeting about platforms going forward. I bet someone tossed out that the N platform is underutilized and that Toyota could build replacement 86 on it and hybrid goodies would come along for free.

it annoys me that they use 392 for the package name, but then everything else is in liters.  I can’t be arsed to figure how how big that actually is, so I just assume it’s a way to make the tiny engine sound bigger.

The Pacifica is the only valid answer in this collection. But I’d offer the Rav4 Prime as a valid substitute. (Or Sienna, if you’re into driving an art deco train around the country)

On what kind of track? In a drag race sure, but unless the EN is leaps and bounds ahead of the VN, CTR is in another league when there are turns involved.

I imagine landing an FL5 close to MSRP is going to be much harder than landing a GRC at MSRP.

The CTR is for 40yo Honda fanbois who grew up tuning 80s-90s Civics, or those who wish they did. It doesn’t really need to make sense on paper because the people buying these are doing so for emotion over logic.

I just wish more performance oriented models put more effort into making the mundane exciting and energizing than they did lap times lower.

The people who buy these cars like goofy wings. Half the fun of driving around a track-focused street car is getting to have all of the track-focused elements, like big wings, canards, fender flairs, and vents in weird places.

GM lost money on the Solstice/Sky. They didn’t want to make it a popular car, it was supposed to be an engineering exercise for building better hydro-formed components. It was the first car to ever have hydro-formed body panels.

The V6 version of this: