German engineers: why use one part when six will do? And lets make it out of plastic even though it sits right next to the exhaust manifold, too.

Another hot take: given the sales numbers quoted there, he quadrupled a very very small number.

You just need to move to Europe, they were sold there:

Enhance!

counterpoint: the regulations aren’t being drawn up with stuff like a hellcat in mind at all. they’re being drawn up to cover the 99.99% of cars that aren’t hellcats and the modern muscle cars are just going to be collateral damage. look around in a parking lot. there are an awful lot of V8 powered trucks.

also, read…

All the more reason not to buy a car adored by lemmings.

“We have audited your car and noticed that you have not purchased the Reverse function. We are deleting this function from your vehicle.”

He’s the same sort of puppet the CIA tries to put in charge of certain countries. you know, those “shithole countries” he talked about.

In my experience, being house poor in some parts of CA can provide a significantly better quality of life than being financially flush elsewhere

Or just enjoy the life they live?

“After you drive without consistent fit and finish, it gets very annoying to go back!”

They can’t do a consistent panel gap, but they can predict whether you want to go forward, backward or park. Got it.

Have you driven an X1? It’s not terrible, but hardly class-leading. I haven’t driven the CX 30 but I have driven a Mazda 3 hatch and it’s a peach.

Force all the teams to go buy the car from the closest dealership the day of the race. Run what you brung.

The companies are just producing what the consumer wants - which apparently is said gargantuan vehicles. It’s not their problem that most people are wrong in what they actually need - but offering vehicles people don’t want will result in...going out of business.

The thing is that the $39K Mazda is fully loaded and the Bimmer is a base model with no options for the same price.  By the time you add the premium or M Sport package, the car gets much more expensive.

I’ll bet you get a lot more for your $CAD 39k in the GT-level Mazda than you do in the base level BMW.

Because the DOT is more concerned with allowing non-amber indicators and indicators that interrupt the function of a brake light, as well as mandating a manually activated high beam switch over the much more advanced system that they employ in the EU.

Check out what you get for the base price of an X1...

It definitely depends on one’s perspective. Having owned German cars and bikes and Japanese cars and bikes, to me this makes the Mazda sound like a great deal.