The fender arches are the best part! They really help to set the car apart.

Ooh, that’s a good one. There aren’t too many of those around anymore.

Slide 9 is abut a 2021 Mazda6 but appears to depict a 2014-2015 Mazda6.

Is that some sort of access door where the tail light normally is?  Storage in the rear fender?

Best?  Nah.  Memorable?  Sure.

The mid-2000s GT doesn’t look retro (a modern interpretation of a concept) as much as it looks like a straight copy-and-paste of the original GT40.

What do you call cheese that isn’t yours? (wrong answers only)

Volkswagen absolutely nailed retro with the New Beetle

I go back and forth. I still can’t make up my mind on that darn C-pillar. The rest of the car is gorgeous.

Ctrl-V nearly the entire Mazda lineup from the last ~8 years. Mazda3, Mazda6, CX-9, CX-5, Miata, CX-50, CX-30, CX-90. You could exclude the CX-3 and 3 hatchback, but even they look pretty good from most angles. The MX-30...lets just ignore that one for now.

The outgoing pre-facelift Mazda6 was even better looking IMO. There are very few bad angles on that car. Just look at the lines on the fenders and hood.

I take no credit for the sausage analogy! That term has been in use for decades, and describes some German automakers’ approach to design - typically Audi and BMW.

If you can get past the Beak, the ZDX was a fairly interesting car to look at. The styling was distinctive enough from the rest of the Acura lineup to almost make it stand alone.

Right?  I am highly skeptical of any one-man method of inspecting 128 miles of anything.

...the track inspector said he had been “covering four positions most of the summer.” When asked how he managed the workload, he replied, “A lot of seven-day work weeks” and that he had been averaging 100 hours of work per week.

When chocolate becomes choco lit!

If you are getting an “Engine Coolant overheating” message, that is a different situation than “Hybrid Battery overheating”. Toyota Hybrids have 2 separate liquid cooling systems - 1 for the gas engine and 1 for the Power Control Unit. In addition, your battery is forced-air cooled with an electric fan.

I’m not sure what’s more rare: front row at Costco or Wal-Mart. I got it at Wal-Mart the other day and felt like taking a picture to document the occasion.

Driving through a surprise snow storm on summer tires in a RWD BMW. Just breathing on the throttle in top gear at 20mph would cause DSC to start convulsing! I still don’t know how I got out of that.

Luke sounds like the type of dude who - even if you slammed right into the deer - would blame you for hitting it AND blame you for his “injuries”, despite having the seat adjusted in the worst possible position.