What? No! Sad Mazdaspeed3 is now sad.

I’ve named him Eldridge. I name them all. For instance I would name you Herbert.

OUTCOME THREE: Write a letter to a well- semi- sometimes-respected blogger. Outline your concerns. Elicit sympathy. Get him to paint your tragic picture with his word-brush. Let him share it with his focused audience. Step one is complete.

I disagree, I’ve been hauling my now 6 month daughter in my Abarth since day 1. Rear facing seat fits AND the stroller! Plus my wife can sit comfortably in the front passenger seat.

Clearly the answer is to get rid of the kid

Per Mazda, take rate for the PRHT was 52%. (source: every article about the ND debut in 2014)

Is there room at the table?

“The RF is a mistake because the Miata is all about a pure driving experience”

A new car buyer in 2016 has no interest in manually dealing with a targa top. Porsche didn’t go that route with the new Targa just because they could, either. The PRHT market on the NC Miata was big, and that’s exactly what they’re going for here; that market cares not about weight or cost.

But that wouldn’t satisfy the previous PRHT market, which was over half of all NC sales.

This, sadly, does not surprise me. Take cows. Now most people imagine that a cow is only dangerous when its panicked or really, really annoyed. Its not. They will plot. They will take action. Cows will kill anything. Eat anything. Do not fuck with cows.

How many you got?

The only thing dumber than some of us is all of us, together.

I ran a CARFAX Report on the VIN. This car was delivered/sold to its owner on 12/06/2015. It was declared a Total Loss on 12/10/2015.

It is by design. Not salacious greed as it often is in the automotive industry, by in this case it is by safety design. In modern designs, i.e. anything in the last ten years, everything is designed to absorb impact and break rather than stay rigid and survive but transmit the shock and full deceleration to that most…

well, less visible damage. The crumple zones are probably comprimised, which means a bunch of structural work, which equals $$$.

a year to build, finished a month ago, now for sale for certainly less than it cost to build. This did not turn out the way he planned and he is selling it now before it is broken beyond reasonable repair. Never buy someone elses project.

a 188 hp motor in a 3,000 lb car with no performance trim is not a “hot hatch.” Look at all of the model names in the article: Mini Cooper S. Ford Focus ST and RS. Fiesta ST. VW GTI. The Juke just has the standard “S/SV/SL” trims as all other Nissans.

Lmao more fun than these cars... get your head out of your Puke’s exhaust

It's not fast, and it's not a hatch. It's a regular old CUV with some funky styling.