Neutral: Let me get at Ford for a few.

Nah, this rocks.  We need more art deco in automotive design.

I think it’s because I don’t do any autocross or track days anymore, but objective performance has become utterly meaningless to me. I’m ultimately constrained by traffic, visibility, and/or how much I’m willing to ignore the law.

Maybe this is why I’ve become so obsessed with getting a cargo van, lol.

No, it’s the triple-wheel design that really fires off the nostalgia, which the Ark II doesn’t have. And what I’m remembering definitely doesn’t have the ‘70s vibe, more early ‘90s, or maybe early ‘00s if it was on the Scifi channel (back when they could spell).

Okay, that’s weird... I swear I’ve seen this rig but in a totally different movie. It was like a made-for-tv version of a Journey to the Center of the Earth or Land of the Lost. I only remember the snarky female engineer who designed it correcting one of the male buffoon side characters that it wasn’t an “all terrain…

I love this bodystyle Ford, we have two of them in the family, but I wasn’t raised to pay 14-five for a pickup without 4WD.  If it were, this would be NP all day.

I’m thrown by it using a steering wheel.  I figured this would steer at least partially by leaning, and I can’t imagine a wheel really jiving with lean input.  If it doesn’t lean, I imagine this handles about as well as a motorcycle with a sidecar.

To be fair, the change to that logo happened along the same time that Toyota started pivoting towards boring cars.

Hyundai. The name is already a little too close to “Honda”, to use a stylized H in a squircle as well and I really don’t get how Honda hasn’t sued them over it.

We got o’selves real Beltalowda he’ah.

No, a compass; the type for drawing circles, not the type that points north.

I’m with you on the H-pattern being more of a gimmick. The problem I had with it was playing Live for Speed, if you didn’t press the clutch the way the game wanted you to, it didn’t accept the gear change. So you’d be sitting with the gear shift clearly in gear, but the car coasting in neutral, and you’d have to push…

I guarantee I beat you all; I continued to daily my ZZW30 MR2 after having my kid.  You get some looks when you’ve got a childseat in one with the top down, but it has LATCH system.

I don’t get having dedicated 3-row unibody SUVs, but I do see where it’s handy for the cargo area to have jump seats for when you need to squeeze one or two more in. If you’re carrying more than 4 passengers with any real frequency or distance, just get a van already.

I was hoping this might mean the Alpine 110 could come stateside, but apparently that’s Renault/Nissan’s fault.

Hrm... well, since Ford won’t bring over the Transit Trail, maybe the Rifter?

It’s the unholy quinternity: FWD, NA 4-cylinder, automatic, Chrysler, sedan.

Sweet holy christ on a cracker no way in hell.  I wouldn’t take that if you paid -me- $3,200.  The only way you could convince me to curse my driveway with the shadow of a Tempo is if it were one of the T8 prototypes, and even then I’d have to think about it.

Well, compare it to an old C50 dump truck. Something like this:

With 49s, I’d be more concerned about stopping than going.

I’m almost surprised that no one has taken the radar from radar cruise control, mounted it on the back, and made brake lights that increase in intensity the closer something gets to your rear bumper.