The whole “minivans are uncool” thing is ridiculous on it’s face. You ceased being a cool person when you had kids, buying a tarted up wagon with plastic wheel arches isn’t going to fool anyone. Just get the damn minivan, it’s the best tool for the job.

Maybe a lot of the work was already done for the Grand Cherokee so it’s easier than doing a Ram.

The details are that they’re entitled assholes

Entitled asshole car company that makes cars for entitled assholes, acts like an entitled asshole. Details at 11

The aerodynamic benefits are massive, and this is Honda we're talking about. Those cameras will be working well into world war 4

I’m going to address this the same way I’d address my peers, because I have started blogs and I’ve also sold blogs — so I understand this whole game well. (I have guest-written here, as well as Grantland (RIP), ESPN, VICE, The Atlantic, The Daily Dot, etc. So, I also get what it’s like to write.)

I feel the same way. Jalopnik lost its heart when Patrick George finally stepped aside.

Maybe because it’s not gloss? That’s why I hate it, at least. All I can picture is bird shit stains (had a car with flat hood and trunk).

I was surprised to learn that 346,639 Minis were sold (to whom?) last year

I think Fancy Kristen’s beater is a 2020 Rolls-Royce Phantom.

Since I am older and far more insane than you, I have not finagled myself a gig where I get to sit in $400,000 cars for free. I wish that I had that kind of smarts, but I don’t so I have just closed a deal on a 2006 Bentley Arnage. If it is not everything you have described, less the backward moving doors, I am…

Now you know how Fancy Kristen lives

Yup. Then the non functional gauges cemented it as someone else's half assed project. 

I was all in until the shredded top and body damage. CP

I was 5 in 1989 so I have more buying power now. 

Yep, big difference between amortizing development and tooling costs over hundreds of thousands, if not millions of units (and probably sharing major assemblies with other FWD stablemates spreading costs around even further) vs. a few tens of thousands of units on a bespoke platform with a bespoke drivetrain.

GTFO of here with that logic bullshit

Miata is the perfect size. Everything is already sized for Real Americans. Let those of us who arent Real Americans have a single damn vehicle that isnt supersized. 

How big are your kids? I’m 5 foot 14 and I fit just fine in my NA miata back in the day.

Miata’s have always been to small. My teenage kids are to big for it. We need a relaxed fit Miata