I'm with you. Ninety per cent of what the German big three put out just leaves me cold. They're like Camrys with pretension. Maybe if I can ever afford one, I'd be amazed at how they drive, but from the point of an outside observer, they are racing toward a vanishing point of design mediocrity.

Sure it does. It's all based on pronunciation in different countries: in Japan Mazda is pronounced Matsuda, the founder of the companies name; and in English an 'e' hanging off the end of a word isn't pronounced, thus porsh. I also don't get your comment about Volkswagen versus Porsche. Saying Volkswagen with an…

I've never heard that. But I do know that the founder of Mazda's last name was Matsuda, which is how it's spelled in Japanese, and I've heard Japanese car companies when they were coming to America wanted to not seem Japanese, because most things coming out of Japan at the time was cheaply manufactured crap, a la…

But it's an anglicization of the founder's name: Matsuda Jujiro.

All car brand names are written in katakana or romaji, which means they, as far as I've seen, either write it Mazda or マツダ (matsuda) depending on which alphabet they want to use.

I love bringing up Mazda when Porsche lovers complain about mispronunciation. Cars have become so global the word Mazda, as most westerners read it, isn't even in the phonemes of the Japanese language. There's not even a real proper pronunciation for it.

I disagree, though I may be the only one, that chick car is necessarily a bad thing. Lots of them are just cars that focus on style rather than speed (think karmann ghia, new beetle, new mini, and new fiat 500). I think these cars offer some much-needed diversity in car line-ups. Their great sin is that when you're…

Gunma is a prefecture, not a road.

Freaked my (then) girlfriend's mom out constantly turning on the windshield wipers when I wanted to turn, but in her defence, it was my first time driving in Japan and it's weird relearning something you've done by default for so long.

I can't believe I had to scroll so far down to see this. I tingle-handedly made me lust after a '55 Chevy and was the genesis for the idea of the Blasphemi.

This is Otis. I love Otis

"There's no replacement for displacement."

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,

I think the Japanese is: Without racing Honda wouldn't exist.

All the video does is frustrate me. It's like watching your friend when he's trying to do something and keeps failing and all you want to do is push him out of the way and get the thing done yourself. Of course, half the time I fail at the thing as well, but the thought and arrogance that I can do it never seems to…

And given the fact that it's not that big of a company, and it makes cars for normal people, I think it's history is even more impressive.

I think I just grew up learning various pieces from the variety of machinery around me that by the time I got my first car, a manual, it all came together. When I was just a bitty tike my parents bought as a 50cc honda mini bike, which I think would be the first thing i ever shifted. Then, when I was older, my dad put…

Maybe everyone is just more interested in their phones, like everyone at that fucking set. Everyone in the front row seems to be perpetually on their phones, which is, I guess, whatever.

That's kind of like saying, 'that kind of plain women who has become rather chunky since she graduated and stopped playing sports is the girl you marry if you don't want your wife to scream look at me.' The F-Type is a beautiful car, and it has nothing to do with having people look at you. The Porsche, however, is a…

Thank you. This needs to be somewhere up near the top of the comments so people can stop bitching.