Those batteries have a useable life after they’re no longer appropriate for mobility... Say 70% state of charge. At that point, they can be re-purposed for stationary use and have a longer life than you’d think. They’re also easier to replace than you’d think. The net cost may not be so much.

I had friends from England who were amazed that Ford took a halfway decent compact car (their Escort) and turned it into what we got (which, to add insult to injury, looked like it could have been the same car with 5mph bumpers)... This was the tail end of Ford’s malaise era, overlapping the jellybean T-bird, same…

Yours was based on the Mazda Protege... It’d be hard to not prefer it, even if only for the purposes of powertain reliability... The Mazda 1.8l DOHC might have been one of the sweetest engines of the era, if you had a GT

???

Dead reliable with main bearing failure after 88k miles of proper maintenance... Does not compute.

You guys ever consider getting journalists who were actually alive when these cars were available, to write about them? I mean... We’re not talking about 1930s Deusenbergs, here... You could be 50 and have actually driven a new example of this car, for example...

I hate it when I do that...

Features Editor, huh?

What exactly do you “edit”?

You got the generation of Civic wrong.

You got the Mitsubishi Emeraude confused with the Mazda Persona (even though they were almost 5 years apart—- oh, wait, you weren’t born, were you?)

You glossed over the fact that, yes, Chuck Jordan was the VP of design in the 80s and…

“Do you know what that is?... it’s the next Vauxhall Vectra!... well, maybe not the next one, or the one after that...”
Or, ever.

You forgot the original Saturn SL/SC, which were intriguingly smart in so many ways, even if not quite Honda-like.

You also forgot the much-maligned Aztek, which may have been designed/executed incredibly poorly (similar to the APVs which you mention) but, conceptually, was actually pretty brilliant and predicted where…

I know where there’s a super-clean E39 528i Touring with Sport Package and the M/T... can I claim it for coolness?

European-based, American-branded wagon?

I count only one in market, the Buick Regal, but I really can’t get too excited by much more than they merely offer it here... the Brand and Dealer experience is a big turn-off, the driving experience is not what this Cupra (or, hell, non-Cupra SEAT wagons) feel like, and they’re…

5oth anniversary special edition, and they don’t do a BRE homage paint scheme? They could have done an Electromotive GTP paint scheme, though I have to admit that I’m not sure that it would look much different than this, and be just a bit too esoteric a reference for most people... BRE, though,... that would have…

Volvo (at least, used to) provide 2 free roundtrip tickets, a free night in Gothenburg, factory tour, insurance & registration for up to 15 days, a price below U.S. MSRP, access to color and trim (and presumably other options) not available in the U.S.

Almost did a C30 that way... kinda wish I had, actually... cool car…

t’wasn’t the LaFerrari... it was the F1 car from 2011 (Italy’s 150th anniversary of it’s unification).

Museo Nazionale delle Automobile in Torino, Italy... Yes, you’d expect the Italian national automobile museum to be something special, and it did not disappoint...

From the obvious inclusion of Italian race cars, it also included some not insignificant non-Italian race cars, as well as passenger cars that weren’t…

The Achieva was the predecessor to the Alero and was, also, an N-body bro to the Grand Am (earlier generation)...

And replace the horn with a twin-trumpet air horn (says the NB driver)

I don’t know... the car that I drove could have easily been a bear to drive but was easier to drive, with more brio, than my then-FD RX7... and it sounded wonderful. The clutch was sublime and rev-matching double-clutching/even heel-n-toe was natural within a block of the beginning of the drive. All I’ve driven for…

Drove an F-type S with a Manual once and have to say that it was stunningly good, if not a bit out of my price range (at the time). Wonderful sounding, nice shifter, sublime clutch. It’s a soundtrack in my mind for a type of car that seems to be going further into the history books... and that is WAAAAAAY too bad.