After years of buying STUPENDOUSLY AWFUL used Chevy (Citation), Olds (Omega), and Buicks (Cutlass Sierra) my father got fed up and went out and bought an absolutely stripper Honda Accord like this in.... I think 1985? Family has been buying Honda’s ever since. The first Christmas we had it, dad opted to take the…

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I think you’re doing it wrong. Go check the seat cushions and find some more coin. You’ve proposed lots of decent vehicles for a VERY low price, but I fear most would still be considered shitbox-adjacent at best. You owe yourself a reliable and comfortable get-around-town vehicle; something you could maybe even take a…

+1 on the Subaru: I drove a 5-spd Legacy GT my last few years in Detroit (I left in ‘07) and it was a total hoot in the winter. Forester would serve you well.

Counterpoint: I don’t care what you call it, the 4-door hatchback is my favorite bodystyle. My first car was an awful-but-I-didn’t-care-because-it-was-MINE 4-door hatchback Chevy Citation. The first car I ever LIKED was mom’s 4-door hatchback Gen1 Integra. 15 years later I had my own 4-door hatch Mazda6. At present,…

Right brand, wrong vehicle? I’d submit that the quasi-SUV Countryman is the better MINI choice here. Anyone coming from a tallish SUV just isn’t going to feel comfortable going low again. The Countryman is taller (but not tall) and it shares a chassis and top-spec engine with the BMW X1, which my wife has now and…

Neutral:  Hopefully Tesla will have learned from their mistakes from the Model 3 (and S and X).  But the fact that the Model Y will be built by different folks in an all-new Nevada assembly line means that there will still be a massive learning curve for the new factory to get thru.  So unfortunately, I suspect the…

Frumpy and uninteresting, compared to a Leaf or a Bolt?!?!? To each, their own, but I think the Model 3 looks like the sleek sportscar it is compared to the Leaf and Bolt. I see dozens every day and the looks have grown on me. Although I agree that if it looks like a hatchback it damn well should have been a hatchback.

But they kinda are standing still. Instead of working on mid-cycle refreshes of their current models or all new versions of the getting-old Model S and Model X, all the talk from Tesla is Self-Driving, Sportscars and Semi’s. (Talking hardware updates here, not software). Traditional automakers start working on the…

Yes, this. How does it rate vs a Bolt in the “FUN TO DRIVE” category?

Yes.... but OTOH, he’s not wrong.

NOT claiming this was especially clever, but I had  SV NO U  on my Miata, and in 7 years of ownership exactly one (1) person was able to decipher it. I lost a little faith in humanity with that experience.

How could it be so awful?? Rented one in Chicago last month and came away less than impressed, especially with the transmission. Two family members have last-gen CR-V’s that I’ve driven quite a bit and those, though not exciting, seem an order of magnitude better than this RAV4. Perhaps just the rental-spec sucketh? I…

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What factory hack said. I’ll add that FCA does have a dedicated “pilot” assembly line at the bottom of the Chrysler headquarters building in Auburn Hills, so the earliest builds may have been done there. At least, it used to.  But most come out of the actually assembly plant, as getting the assembly line ready to make…

1st Gear: I think what Tesla has accomplished so far is nothing short of amazing, but yeah, they quite possibly have peaked already. I feel like the Model Y was the chance to move the brand forward into the next generation of Tesla and instead they took the cheap route out by simply offering a taller 3. SUV, my ass.…

I nearly bought one of these new back in the day, as well. I finally opted for a Ford Contour SE instead because I wanted a four door.

Counterpoint: you don’t need a full-on zombie-apocalypse style vehicle for LA; you just need a car with they right kind of suspension. I don’t know how to define that, exactly, but my 2014 Mazda6 Touring is AWESOME at gliding over rough railroad crossings and roads that are more pothole than asphalt on my LA commute…

After driving MT’s exclusively all my life I now have two pretty good AT’s in the garage: the BMW 8AT (X1) and Mazda’s SkyActive 6AT (Mazda6). I miss driving a stick greatly, and plan to add a 3rd car for that soon, but I don’t have complaints about either of these transmissions. Of the two, I think the Mazda 6AT is…

But they still offer the Camaro, if you want your front-engine V8 thrills. So I think this move makes sense IF they can keep the price down on the new car. If it ends up being $100k+ then yeah, they would be abandoning all of their loyal Corvette faithful. I’d like to see this compete with the Cayman or Cayman S,…