It’s just a marketing number.

Sports cars with less HP than a Camry are still far more fun to drive because they respond instantly to pedal inputs. High-HP family cars just have good passing power, but they usually take a few seconds to actually kick down the gears.

Thoughts and prayers.

You know a franchise has been a long-term success when your own kids are picking it up without any of your influence.

So you’re saying we’ll become pets and recreational animals for the robots. Got it.

You can’t pay for UBI without taking stabs at capitalism itself. What corporate overlord would want to pay UBI taxes, and how would those corporations pay it? It’s a chicken-egg problem that cannot be solved in one fell swoop. More likely, automation will eat away enough jobs to increase unemployment and begin civil…

IMO, tech is no longer a luxury. Generally, the latest gadgets are available in everything from a Corolla to a Phantom.

Acura errs on the side of functionality, which is fine.

I see what you did there.

Ironically, if you look at race cars, which inspired low-profile performance wheels and tires, they actually have significant tire sidewall.

I do this; in fact my home screen only has the phone button. But it’s because I like looking at my background pics.

LW#1 needs to leave before she gets physically hurt.

Laughed at East Whiskeyshire. Other quality British parts sources are based in Doggonebroke, Brapptonham, Bumford, East Wessex and Slytherin-upon-Wales.

This is what we call a Crack Pipe seller. If you want to sell a car that’s worth anything more than junk value, you’re going to have to clean it up.

We didn't have any DCT problems.  Personally I think programming auto-creep into a DCT is incredibly dumb.

You’ve found a 500L alumni. We had ours for 3 years before we lemoned it. The motor sounds agricultural and the wind and road noise are obnoxious, but we weren’t surprised in light of the price point. I believe the early DCT cars got better fuel economy (my wife averaged around 29-30 mpg), but Americans were burning…

The US model could’ve used this exterior facelift. It still looks quite sharp in that photo.

1945, to be precise. It coincided too well with the end of WWII, the German connotation had to have been a consideration.

What’s up with the headlights burning out every 9 months?

I’m sure nothing in there is ever “simple,” but I used the word because a few years back there was a report on Ford making structural upgrades on the driver side of their pickup trucks to pass the IIHS Small Overlap test, but it was discovered that those upgrades were not done on the passenger side.