Those photos of 4-door cars are most likely the next Camry, not the next 86. You don’t say it explicitly, but you seem to imply that those are the 86.

Nice job grafting a Mazda 3 rear onto a Honda.

Rimmer Bros and BP Northwest are also having sales right now, for all your ancient British car part needs. Taillights included (probably).

Does Plan AB come after Plan Z? Or did you mean to say Plan A & Plan B?

This gives me an idea...

You might be eating those words when Ford’s new compact pickup debuts. OK, it won’t be body-on-frame, but it’ll do the job that those trucks did just fine. Everyone said there was no way you could make a sports car as small as the original NA Miata anymore for the same reasons you state here. Then the ND Miata showed…

Oof. Reading comprehension fail. Sorry about that.

“but that it was optimized to work best with the tires it came with.”

No. It’s because we know very well how to make things better/cheaper/stronger/faster. But we have a weak concept of the psychology behind what makes people buy things, and what the market demands. But that’s ok. We don’t care. We have better things to do. 

As a fellow engineer, I assure you that you (we) are in the minority when it comes to our views on such things. When a manufacturer sets out to make shitloads of money selling cars, they do not ask the engineers (us) how to do it, and there’s a good reason for that.

The big news here is that it looks good in green.

You’re not wrong. But those things don’t sell cars (and by “cars” I mean crossovers). Shiny, fancy whiz-bang gadgets sell cars. If you don’t have those things and the other guys do, people that don’t care about driving dynamics (i.e., people that don’t read Jalopnik) will be buying their cars, not yours.

Reasons for the film’s failures are not excuses. I’m not sure what “to be fair” means in this context. I’m not sure what “to be fair” means in this context. You had the biggest entertainment company in the world with endless time and resources available to them, with the ability to make the final chapter in arguably…

Whose 1969 Beetle is that?

I feel like this is somehow related to Ghosn’s escape from Japan.

That’s why yours has been ok. Only high mileage cars have problems. So far you’ve only added kilometers.

Right. Always make sure you get your tissues from the most germ-infested room in the building.

Electric Italian cars leak electrons, not oil.

“I can’t really tell in these images if it’s wood or brushed metal, textured plastic, or gila monster skin, but whatever it is, it looks nice and fancy.”