Automakers need to stop trying to make cars 'better' by doing tons of things unrelated to cars in them. I'm 26, squarely in the age bracket of 18-31 year olds they want to target. I don't care about connectivity; I care about the car being a well-put-together bit of kit. I don't want shnazzy tie-in-branding…

I saw a Panamera GTS today at the mall, it was pretty neat-looking in person.

This deserves a QOTD, seriously. If not, there's no justice.

The economy in my neck of the woods is crappy. Maybe not Rust Belt crappy, but not very good nonetheless. Also, Akerson is a racist wad if he thinks that a small island nation that can't be anything other than a tech-export economy (he must think there are vast plains in Japan) is suspicious for...being an export…

I saw something similar to this in the form of a UK-based woman who has a stanced MX-5. But this is pretty unreal. Love the Domo-kun and HK. It's like the car is tattooed!

I was thinking that too! About 30 seconds in, I noticed the radio was still on, like a soundtrack. Then I lost it laughing at this guy losing his shit.

Wow, that is some hardcore road rage right there. That guy obviously needs a bit of therapy.

Possibly the coolest car anyone in my family's owned, an Esprit 2.2 Turbo. When you think about it, it's an odd car to take home your newborn child, but it's all my father and mother had at the time. They eventually did away with it for a humdrum 7-series, but, I still have some faint memories of this car in my early…

Subaru WRX STI. Yeah, call me a yob for saying it, but the Boxer rumble to me is absolutely unmistakable. It might not be the 'best' sound, but you know it when you hear it.

Thing is, I'm not sure they've cloned the Audis enough. Why design the car this way, and not put one of their beautiful, functional, flat-bottomed steering wheels in it? Even the Up! gets that.

Oh, no, far from a slight, I take it as some very valuable perspective on the European automotive market. I think it's interesting that you mention that cars like the Mondeo won't be cross-shopped against the 3-series purely out of badge-lust; it happens here to a certain extent as well. That said, I didn't realize…

Lincoln is a deep, deep battle for any kind of relevance, even in their home market here. Even if they're Ford's equivalent to Lexus/Acura/Caddy etc, they've got a particularly bad reputation (at least among virtually everyone I know) as a car make for cheesy, third-rate Ambulance-chasers, small-time drug kings, and…

And yet, even if it's good-looking (and I'll admit, it kind of is), you have to ask yourself, why would someone buy this, and not a RR Evoque? I'm not exactly a fan of that car, but surely they must have thought to themselves, 'we're setting ourselves up to compete against what's by all accounts, an extremely…

Skoda, the last word in off-brand luxury. If only VAG sold them here...I think they'd find a foothold in the form of the masses who'd love to own a nice, comfortable, luxurious four-door, but don't want to spend loads of cash, or look like 'hats who can't park.

They may well have to fuddle around with the 3-series to continue keep its supremacy unchallenged. The soon-to-be arriving new Mondeo for instance has been a thorn its side for a while now (cue Top Gear's quote about 'Mondeo Man'), if the U.S. market Fusion that just launched is any indicator. You sit in it and…

Fuel door ripped straight off on A4/A6.

A4/S4 tail-lights. They look great, but...whyyyy?

At least Audi does it a little better. I may be biased, because I like Audi's designs, mechanically and visually-speaking. The Q3 for instance, is something I wouldn't mind owning, and I'm not even a fan of 'sporty' CUVs. At least Audi has the clout to make it work (with the Q3 being developed on the MQB platform…

All those things (continued slowdown in Europe, economic stumbles in China) have at least about a 1-in-5 shot of happening to begin with, so it's a risky strategy. Riskier when you take into account that BMW is not a Honda or a Toyota; they sell to a more well-heeled, potentially more risk-averse customer and in…

Having owned a PT Cruiser at one point—clearly not a high point in my automotive history—I can readily sympathize with, and confirm the validity of your hatred for it. Similarly, the HHR should be consigned to the bowels of Hell.