Back in the day that was true, but the days of rebadging lower end cars with nicer options are practically over. Jalopnik had an article on this relatively recently. Sadly the stigma has stuck, but often times Sturgis point Lexus, acura so forth are either ground up their own, or share nothing more than a frame.

The second part was more than calling the dart bad, it’s the entire point. Cars like the dart, which is awful, mostly sell because people have brand loyalty for whatever reason. Thus a small share company like Mazda, can benefit from producing cars for a company like dodge in this example. These weren’t people that…

Yes, but you are speaking about the car conscious minority that understands what rebadging is and understands that they can go buy the came car directly from company B in your example. There’s a large section of populace in this country that doesn’t even cross shop brands.

I’ve been burned twice by this bull shit, first time a dodge ram lost its transmission on the interstate at 5a.m. Shattered to a million metal pieces that took out my car and two others. Driver of that vehicle wasn’t negligent because he couldn’t have known it was going to happen. Furthermore I was deemed at fault for…

Meanwhile at Weathertech:

Thankfully, Mazda developed another vehicle that’s much easier to convince your wife is suitable for family duty.

Modern Comforts-Check

I love seeing this, Cam got slammed for dancing but they never talk about this small nice gesture he makes to the fans all the time.

It’s awesome she’s into cars, but I don’t have a lot of respect for someone driving that heavily modified of a car with so little knowledge about it. Built>bought

I disagree on the test pipe, sure just bolting it on there doesn’t do much for you, but on a tuned forced induction car that is a dyno verifiable 15-20 horsepower bump. Particularly on the mazdaspeed 3 there are 2 cats, 80% of the power gains can be had by doing the test pipe only vs. the full down pipe. The real…

Completed agreed with everything in the article, but filing it under “shut up whitey”? Way to keep it classy.

You won’t regret it. It’s not the fastest car in the world, but it passes the smiles given test in spades. I still look back at mine every time I park.

This always amuses me, the ST torque steers just as much, but your “e-diff” corrects steering for you to compensate. This isn’t a seamless process, you can feel the car intervening, and it’s one of the main reasons I did not get an ST. Too many nannies and no way to disable them all. The STs are both cars made to give…

Genwon, Genwin, Genjuan=1St generation MS3 07-09

I love the s2k, but there is something else that impacts the drivers senses in a more profound way. Boost >VTEC

Nota bad car, but sadly that 4.6 has been ruined for me by all the bros that toss X-pipes on it and then go WOT everywhere demanding attention for what is really a lot more bark than bite.

How did the killdozer not make this list?!

How dare you accuse him of asking an inflated price! He had the car appraised at gas monkey garage just before making the post. Turns out they said his personal touches actually enhanced the cars value.