It would be really nice if the IIHS would give a comparative score with older vehicles, this constant moving of the goalposts leads people to believe that the car companies aren’t working on this stuff or very little improvement has been made. In reality modern vehicles are orders of magnitude safer in any test than…

1st gear: it would be better if you talked with an ICE emissions expert instead of quoting the guardian. The guardian has an agenda, and clearly knows little to nothing about NOx emissions.

I’d go any late 60s/early 70s Mopar. Hemi Cuda is probably number one, most boomers just can’t get one!

Uh....$50k EK Civic Si? $80k ITRs?

Ford will sell you a regular cab with the 6.5ft bed and a 5.0L V8. It’s a really fast truck, surprised they don’t offer some kind of “sport” version with a lower suspension and stickier tires. Would be a simple thing to do and a cash cow, the base already exists.

This is not the experience my Tesla owning friends have had, they’ve all switched brands.

That's a very good point.

Tesla’s real advantage until the past 2-3 years was that they didn’t need to be profitable and their stock price was still gigantic. That’s such an incredibly huge advantage for a business trying to make new products or take risks, if they needed money they just did a stock sale and the stock value went UP, which is…

Obviously, as shown by the data, the absolute value of people buying Teslas isn’t a large portion of the market.

1st Gear: Apparently Toyota are the only ones paying attention, this has been obvious for awhile. Everyone wanted a piece of that ridiculous Tesla stock valuation, they weren’t really listening to customers.

0% financing is how we got into this mess in the first place. We learned nothing from 08/09.

There’s some decent suggestions in here, but overall I can tell many Jalopnik readers have never driven a truly terrible car. The Chevette person has, 80s crap version of the Escort, Hyundai Pony....but Chrysler 200? Toyota Sienna? You can cruise these on the highway in relative silence and listen to music.

You’re right, but you’ve got the cause and effect backwards. Americans will pay more money for a larger vehicle, end of. If I’ve got to develop advanced tech to get a vehicle through tough crash and emissions regs, the headroom afforded by a higher sale price with effectively the same engineering and manufacturing…

? They cut them because no one buys them, if there was a business case for fuel efficient vehicles they’d absolutely make them.

1st Gear: Looking through the comments, it’s clear people think the automakers dictate what people buy. They don’t.

It most definitely has ABS and TC.

Okay, even a cursory search would have shown the CGT has both ABS and traction control. It was 2005, not 1985.

The Model T is so completely the answer to this question that it borders on fact, not opinion.

Trying to argue for anything else is just a hipster move. This is the correct, albeit boring, answer.

If your ambient temp is 31 C, but the cockpit temp is 50 C, clearly airflow could make a big difference.