This is what I’d like to see...

BMW found a way to make the wheels as ugly as the grille!

This was rebadged as Ford Cougar in Europe (and I think, Australia, too) and might have been a bigger hit abroad than at home. I think as time goes by and the world of used cars becomes mostly sad boxes and things with beds, I predict Cougar will become increasingly more desirable.

1st gear - I live in the city so a convertible isn’t practical, but if you see me behind the wheel of a crossover you’ll know I finally fell asleep and have become one of the pod people.

I don’t know, my parents were totally not truck people but loved their quad-cab V-8 and only jumped brands to GMC when Dodge pulled the plug on Dakota.

Chevy obviously heard everyone screaming it was ugly, but the changes just make it a different kind of ugly.

Exactly what I was thinking, carried away like a adult carries away a toddler having a meltdown.

• Too expensive

1st gear - Kinda pisses me off it took Toyota this damn long to pull out of Russia.

Plus imagine a gun accidentally going off in a pressurized aircraft. Fuck, people are stupid.

I would definitely be giving the Peak case an appropriate review.

Easy fix, take a page from the Mustang style book and leave them off. F-150 is as iconic as Mustang, plus Ford is in block letters about 3 foot tall on the front, so no one is going to be confused.

I would be more excited if it looked like this...

Hopefully Marin can sue the new scumbag buyer who participated in this BS.

I’m getting a Chevy HHR vibe from the tail lights, that could be a bit more exciting, but otherwise I it a lot.

Neutral: I don’t think US makers have any interest in recovering. Now that they’ve found they can sell option laden high end models at MSRP plus-plus and EV toys to the one percenters, there’s really no interest in volume production.

Not always, sometimes that up and over maneuver is harder that merely sliding in. I mean, something sitting on the ground like a BR-Z, yeah, probably not, but ironically I recently tried on an Impreza Wagon and a Crosstrek and though the normal height Impreza was much easier to get in and out of.

Agreed. While I do see an older person going frighteningly slow from time to time, the really bad jackass road-ragers driving like life is video game are always well under 80. You know, the dicks whipping in and with unsignaled lane changes, doing over 90 when everyone else is going about 60.

Duh, this... easy, reliable, likely already very familiar and big enough but not overwhelmingly big.

PS The real problem in California, as well as pretty much everywhere, is utilities just want to milk out profits and dividends without spending a dime on upgrading their 1940s/1950s equipment held together with duct tape and bailing wire. And then wring their hands in disbelief and blame mother nature or other vague…