The concept was amazing. The production car looks like a Chinese knock off where the proportions and details are just not quite right.

Don’t be so quick to write that theory off. Who was the Honda Element pitched to? Who actually bought it?

I get wanting to give new drivers, with their propensity to bounce off of things, a cheap car to start with. I don’t get wanting to give new drivers, with their propensity to bounce off of things, an old car with virtually no safety features. There isn’t even an airbag in that thing.

Fixed

Yuuuuuup.

By my approximation, which has included almost no research, the only cars that get built in the U.S. anymore are white-bread beigemobiles. If I want to actually like my car, I’m going to cross a border or 3.

Except it wasn’t an accident. It was a truck... with more cones that they just didn’t put out.

If it were an accident, and the police arrived, and they only put out 1 flare, would they not also hold some blame?

Yup. Actually, it just proves how everyday-able these cars really are.

There’s something fishy about this story. 8% is absurd on it’s own, but if they had room to drop it down to keep the customer from walking out they would have.

The only fishy behavior I had was with buying my VW last year. The promotional rate was 1.9%, which got me the cash incentives and also matched my Credit…

Rally car is faster on rally course when driven in rally mode. Who knew?

Of the few segments I’ve seen, it looks to be a perfectly good show.

Ok, but what does the red button do?

How is the 258 lbs/ft in the GTI “not nearly enough”, but adding a mere 22 lbs/ft in a car which weighs 400 lbs more is?

And what of an elevator where the motor is mounted to the car (yes, they exist, generally used for smaller/lower buildings)? All of the sudden it is a vehicle?

“... on Reddit claims is his 2007 Subaru Forester on Reddit...”

Came here to say this. If you take a Harley, for example, they have a wet clutch but do not share the same oil as the engine. The primary and transmission share oil separate from the engine, and you can use diesel oil in the engine mainly because the recommended viscosity happens to be the same as a diesel. But for…

The EA888 engine in the GTI is extremely tunable. A stage 1 tune puts it at like 300hp with zero other mods. Add a bigger turbo and a tune to match and people are making 400hp.

Seriously. You have to try rather hard to design a car this bland...

3rd Gear: Renault And Nissan Still Aren’t Playing Nice: Report
As long as they figure everything out in time to have a way to sell that new Alpine in the U.S. ...

If you lift a wagon up to the height of other crossovers, what is the justification for not calling it a crossover?

Seems to me like the bank should be on the hook for this (until they catch the guy, obviously), since their own safeguards should have prevented him from getting the loan and the check in the first place. But, you know... banks...