One part of me thinks, “there’s no way 30 different people accidentally drove into this lake!”.

That’s what I’m wondering! And no, those aren’t houses they appear to be businesses.

Even if you managed to sink 30 cars undetected, I’m wondering about the logistics of rolling that many cars into a lake and keep them sufficiently submerged. You’d need a lot of shoreline (roll cars into the lake side by side, all in a row), or a really deep lake (not likely in coastal FL), or a big, obvious boat to…

In 2017 I bought a new Mazda6 Touring with the manual transmission. Because of the reasons you listed, I really wish Mazda would have offered the GT with a manual. Mazda didn’t even offer package options on the Touring (Adaptive Lighting, Bose stereo) unless you picked the automatic.

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!