“So why exactly would anyone buy the manual version?”

I’m surprised their top shelf marketing has failed to move the metal. 

1. FCA product.

I know, right? Where’s the “If you’re driving your kids around, you’ve got to look cool because otherwise they’re going to think you’re just some poor schlub. And how cool can you get for $30k? How about 1970 Ford Torino convertible-level cool?”

How the hell has no one suggested the Kia Stinger yet?

Maybe he or the kids vape or could vape.

What’s going on here? These are all genuinely helpful suggestions and it makes me uncomfortable.

If FCA could restart parts production for 1st gen rams, that’d be great.

Can you at least make an attempt at staying on topic and not spewing soviet propaganda?

You’re aware he’s currently stoking a trade war with China?

The big difference is that US contractors are known and acknowledged entities carrying out official activities. If a US contractor screws up in a foreign country, the government acknowledges liability for that.

Ahh here’s the first of many good old “us is just as bad LOL” posts.

The big difference is that there’s actual enforced laws for autos. Yeah, they do their fair share of bad, too! No one’s a saint. But should you try parking your car on an access ramp for the sidewalk for any length of time, it probably won’t end well.

I hate these companies more than anybody I know for clogging the sidewalks and turning a blind eye to the behavior of their riders, but even I draw the line at cut brakes (and yeeting them into bodies of water with aquatic life, for that matter—these garbage-piles are pretty toxic!).

The Civic Si does have one thing going for it that the USDM CLA didn’t, though

Exactly.  The fact that these are at price parity tells you the market has the Benz reliability figured out.  Oops.

Those words should be attached to the windshield of every used Mercedes.

Looking at the build quality and fit-and-finish of the CLA-Class, in all its guises, I’d rather have a Civic Si. And although both cars are over-styled, the Civic looks confident and youthful; the CLA-Class looks like it’s trying too hard.

My wife and I watched Saving Private Ryan about a month after it cameout during the day, so the theater was empty. When the beach scene started my wife nudged me and said she was going to check on the elderly gentleman sitting a few seats away from us who began crying. As she approached him he apologized for bothering…

Thank you for your service.