why don’t they just build a subway system

Gee, dealers can’t sell cars at current prices? Maybe they should try, I dunno, selling them for lower prices? Just thinking out loud here.

You will never convince me that the Ka is a bad car. I borrowed one for a day when I lived in Spain, and it was a hoot!

Oh, there it is.

The GR86 is a Celica. The first three generations were light weight, RWD, sporty cars, and the 7th gen weighed 2550lbs, had a 8k redline, and 100hp/L and did quite well in SCCA. It was only really the fifth and sixth gen that was heavy, but even then, only in the turbo AWD guise.

“Not only was the quality of parts bad but the car had a tendency to delaminate tyres...”

It’s a hole on top of a mountain.

Mate, they had a chicken dished named after fucking Toowoomba. Who does that, if not dumbarse Seppoes?

Maybe Prince Lenny at Hutt River Province gave himself a promotion?

They’re riffing off Queensland.

No no, Rob...the car was built on a Pinto platform and it sucked.  That’s why people don’t like them...it IS the car.  It may have been successful back then, but that doesn’t mean it was a good car...and the styling sucked ass too.

GM could have had this.

“The dealers have pointed to a lack of demand for less-than-affluent customers”

Taken cumulatively, wage theft is a bigger problem than property crime.

Back when Subaru was Soo-BAR-oo!

And 3500 is pretty generous.

Tax the huge people who can not fit into a smaller vehicle.

Not just that. Even within each class, the target fuel economy is dramatically affected by the total footprint of the wheelbase. A couple inches longer and wider means significantly lower required fuel economy:

You Aussies are insane. I just drove an XC70 1500 km and already I’ve had enough of the open road!

Maybe the $7.5K dealer markup is part of the issue?