What’s up Happy Days?! Congrats on the Tuscadero.

I think they’re missing the second word in MSRP: “Suggested”. It is in no way a binding price.

A lot of us also grew up under “trickle down” and haven’t known much else but it’s BS policies. But, growing up under such a method, of course we all want to be on top where the water is; because we know it doesn’t actually trickle down.

And now I can never look at a urinal the same way again...

In theory, you’re absolutely right. In practice... ask Johan how it went when he tried to hold individual dealers accountable at Cadillac.

Suddenly he wasn’t facing a few lawyers from bad dealers, but the entire assembled Dealer Lobby, and large-volume (generally terrible) dealers who were planning to cancel orders…

Electric vehicles (not Electrified) still make up a single digit percentage of the global market.

I work in the industry trying to help clients not have the exact experience Tom has been writing about.

Dealerships are independently owned. Hyundai can get mad, but there’s very little they can do.

I just dropped MT On Demand. Even at $5.00 a month, I just couldn’t support the crap they’re creating and the endless knuckle dragger content from Discovery.

But the final drive does change, and that’s likely to effect performance.

I’m trying to buy a house currently, and I help sell cars.

You are ABSOLUTELY correct on both fronts. You do not want to be in this market if you do not have to be. I cannot be more clear than that. 

I get that Jalopnik is to the left. It’s never really bothered me. But come on. You’re asking for more efficient vehicles, and you chide manufacturers for bringing them?

You do understand that we can’t just all go electric tomorrow, right? That there has to be a transition in the market both for the buying populace and…

This was my initial thought as well. I haven’t seen his byline since C&D was in my regular rotation in the early tens.

As someone on the sales side, I respect that you want to engineer something that is as good as possible; but the customer driving something like this will never know/doesn’t care. And the person who is actually going to push a Bronco-Sport off-road, has probably already begun to modify the vehicle to pursue their own…

You’re definitely not wrong. Had a G35 and an FX35 back in the aughts. Loved Infinitis. Then the G37 came along...

Back in 2005, we had a traveling salesperson show up for service with one of these. It was a 2002 with 315,000 miles.

I sold these new. GTP=NA 3.9 with 245hp if memory serves, and GXP was the early non-DI (then later DI) 3.6.

I still want an early GTP with the 3.9 and the 6-speed. They were fun. 

I’ve looked at a lot of cars. Not all were winners. Sometimes you just look to look.

That said, a 04-06 GTO swapped Catera would be one hell of a sleeper.

Back in 2003 I was at a Subaru dealership trying to look at a 2.5RS Coupe they had used. The salesperson kept trying to walk my friend and I over to the WRX.

While cool, the WRX was A. Too Expensive and B. Too Expensive. Plus I liked the 2.5RS coupe.

He just kept following us around saying “But the WRX has a turbo”…

Looking at a pre-owned Catera back in the early aughts and the salesperson pops the hood: