I see we’ve got a Kia Rondo fan on our hands.

That’s already been built, and is driving around Madison, WI:

Can confirm, I’m in the DC burbs and we had the windows open at my house too. I went shopping in a t-shirt with no jacket and my wife was all, “aren’t you going to get cold like that?” and I said no, it’s almost 70 degrees out. 

But the Subaru cotton candy smell comes from the Subaru drivers, not the cars themselves.

After selling Opel to PSA, GM had been paying PSA for the various GM-branded versions of the Insignia i.e. the Regal and Holden Commodore. GM doesn’t build it themselves. 

Do these smell like cotton candy as they drive by?

The ES is a front wheel drive transverse engine layout, the K900 is a twin turbo AWD longitudinal engine layout. The turbos, transfer case, driveshaft and rear differential all add weight.

Different Civic body styles are built in different factories and not all the drivetrains and bodies are made in the same places.

I know many reviews have mentioned the rev hang but when I test drove an Si last summer I never even noticed it. My main complaint about shifting it was the gas pedal is tiny and not in a good position relative to the brake for heel-toeing. Enough people agree with my assessment that there are multiple different gas…

“GTI is in a completely different category,” lol, you’ve drank so much Kool-Aid you’re drowning. 

If it had a little more power it’d be more easily distinguished from the lower trims, but you do get a lot more than the other 1.5T trims. The motor has a bigger turbo and other tweaks, and it’s rather underrated, with good tuning potential. Plus the adaptive dampers, LSD, bigger brakes, and awesome seats.

Usually a manufacturer gives a car a shorter final drive ratio to improve off-the-line acceleration times. It’s cheaper/easier than creating a whole new gearset for the transmission.

Doing what you want when you want and public transit are not mutually exclusive.

It’s all well and good if you believe that Charleston is not a prime candidate for public transit expansion but whether you intended it or not you appeared to be using it as a jumping off point for a generalization. 

So, what’s your conclusion? Each city is unique and therefore ____?

All the water around Charleston is precisely why it’s a terrible example to use when generalizing about American cities in general. 

Because the sloping rooflines of SHITs (Swoopy Hatchbacktified crossovers for Image-conscious Trash) are more aesthetically pleasing to the people who buy them than practical normal 3-box CUV rooflines. 

Remaining in F1 as a reserve driver is not what makes Kubica a comeback story. He is a comeback story because last season he...came back to F1.

The new X2 M35i is mechanically identical to your car. What makes the Mini version more fun to you? Styling?