Here’s a car with less passenger space, less storage space, less miles per gallon, and more expensive. But hey bigger doors!

Then go get a Civic, Corolla, 3, Sentra, Elantra, Golf, Jetta, Fit, Versa instead.

Yeah, that pig on stilts with an anemic engine would be burning down the backroads if it just had planetary gears...

I think Elizabeth is here under protest, exiled from Jezebel for not being a militant lesbian.

I don’t hate it. It makes the cars look unique and different. Choose a different word instead of “fat” to describe them, and they might even be more appealing. Say, “plump” or “voluptuous” or “curvy” or “POV” or “BJ”... oops — I got carried away going through my “private mode” search history.

There was a kid in my class who regularly drove a Ferrari 308 to school.

haha. “Kids of the early ‘00s got them in high school, wrecked them, and now they have money and want to relive their youth.”

Or proof that the demand for “collector” cars is so insatiable that people will pay too much for almost anything.

I would argue that pop culture made you think everyone was driving these things but in reality that wasn’t the case. If you grew up watching the fast and the furious, then yes everyone was modding Japanese econoboxes. Most were putting rims and exhausts on their Civics and Integras and pretended they were fast.

Uh no they aren’t

You’ve been hanging around 90's Mercedes forums too much.

Oldtimer and Youngtimer refer to existing things to describe their age. Modern/future classic is something that could potentially be, but in practice are terms used by delusional people to describe V6 Mustangs in Craigslist ads.

learn how to reduce a fraction before you come here with that kumbaya garbage

Since the efficient 4cyl turbo needs premium, the annual fuel cost vs the 6cl is nearly the same. ($50 per year difference) This totally wipes out the incentive to spend extra $1000 for the 4cyl engine, essentially taking 20 years to pay off.

Came here to say exactly this!

upcoming articles “What is this mythical Rev Matching thing?”, “Double Clutching, What ever the hell that is!” and “Are cars those things with wheels?”

Writes for Jalopnik but has no recollection of Panoz.......yeah, that’s a red flag

Seriously, the amount of complaints on a supposed enthusiast site about rear seat legroom is ridiculous. If you want a larger, heavier vehicle for the rear seat space, go find that elsewhere. Stop the bloat.

GM made a number of questionable decisions with the ATS, including the terrible capacitive hvac and radio interface, the diminutive rear seat, the low rent gauge cluster, lack of ventilated seats, and the interesting placement of the exhaust tips. Also, the 2.0t had a higher than average failure rate. All told, there…

Did it?

GTI / Golf R or Focus RS all day over this. I can never get over how ugly and disproportionate this car is.