The Bolt is engineered to be inexpensive ($27k), not a semi-lux $50K CUV.  Lack of AWD is engineering, not oversight.

Needs more lift

Lol — sorry I was distracted reading the comments and didn’t catch the obvious!

1. Station wagons have fully become cool again.

There’s no point to a Type S unless it gets a version of the 2.0L turbo (which is the base engine of the TLX and RDX @ 272hp).

Apparently Honda produced ~48K of the last gen Civic Type R over its entire run, so I guess that’s close to 10K a year with a couple years of COVID craziness built in. I’d like to live in a world where the Type S can add more than 2k/year to these numbers!

As devil’s advocate:

Let’s see the F-series diesel drivetrains get the same treatment. Try to run a nonstandard ECU mapping on that engine? Too bad, your ECU is bricked: tow it to a dealer for ECU replacement for $2000.

If they can only build 8x Integra Type S’s per day, then it’s going to be a near exotic: that’s like 2000 cars/year.

It’s interesting because you hear both sides of this issue: people like you and then the other guys who are trying to do it full time and practically living out of their cars.

My memory is the alternator was way up on top, like this:

If an unpleasant sounding, low-ish power (by today’s standards), unexpectedly reliable V6 is going to win awards then I’ll nominate the GM 3800 V6.

Sounds like a step in the right direction, but how much of this is just executive policy stuff that can be undone the next time there’s a new political party in power?

I’ve done some pretty in-depth work on headlights for a previous job and find the IIHS headlight ratings to be pretty useful, so I’d trust their headlight documents at least.

Where I grew up in the southeast there were no sidewalks for miles, and it was hilly enough that it would be insanely expensive to add them: many front yards are pretty big *and* slope up or down from the road enough to require significant re-grading efforts to put in sidewalks.

Yeah me too.  I hate paying for the 275-35R22's on my wife’s Volvo.  Pain in the ass wheels!  SUV’s should never have 35mm profile tires!!!

Correlation is not causation.

Yeah I think this is the main issue: tons of suburbs are built with no sidewalks. Some dense suburbs and urban areas have sidewalks, but they’re actually *used*. I’ve seen nearly identical-looking Starship robots in California that get a bit pushy when driving around pedestrians.

$39K 2019 Cybertruck is $45K today after inflation, and then you add in the $7500 tax credit that Tesla deceptively auto-adds to their MSRP, and now I’ll personally hold Elon to a $52K base cybertruck!

Toyota follows the rest of the industry to eliminate all 6-cyl engines in cars / CUV’s under ~$60K.