They come (came?) with Prius tires. A lot of cars could probably out-maneuver them on stock tires as well. Even cars you’d probably underestimate.

A base V6 Mustang has 50% more power and is a full second faster 0-60 with comparable handling (although it is ~700lbs heavier).

Era. When the Miatas were produced, they were competitive. The Toybaru twins are ridiculously underpowered for the era in which they were released. An era where truly average everyday cars could run circles around it without trying. It is just bizarre.

All I see is that this car is pre-riced with a huge pointless wing on something that could never need that kind of downforce.

They need to do this with a reasonably-sized cab, then it’ll be sweet.

I wonder if they emptied the tires of air first (or cut them open)... I’d expect them to explode from the lack of air pressure in space, along with the batteries and a handful of other things...

Have you been to the US lately? It basically is one already.

So, basically, the US during at least the last 26 years.

This is why the US is basically a third world country.

I just realized that this morning when someone else pointed out they thought it was a Mondeo. It’s actually the only shortened version of this platform. However, I still reject the claim that it was a “Toyota”.

Very interesting. Mitsubishi still sells to this segment of the market everywhere, but they don’t advertise it and certainly not to the same level as they did in the early-00s. They still have the Mirage, but that seems to be aimed at the aforementioned cheapskates.

You would be wrong. The Galant was the poster child for the era when Mitsubishi lost their mind on subprime buyers. Most of these cars that didn’t go to fleets were basically given away to people with bad credit that would never pay a dime of monthly payments on them, then resold as used cars on crazy subprime loans.…

This post reminds me that even in Europe they can’t design away the cancer that is GM’s platforms, parts bins, and culture of cheapening. I find all of these cars hideous and just as tossed together looking as the average GM vehicle.

You forgot about the Mazdaspeed6 and the Mazdaspeed3.

I don’t know. They were a spin on the Altezza lights, which basically everyone was making their own spin on by like 2004-2006.

You’re looking for the Mercury Tracer. Badge-engineered sadness right there. Again, grandpa had one, and I remember when he bought it, used, on a credit card (I was there), because it was that cheap as a 1-year-old used car and the trunk was the perfect size for granny’s wheelchair. I’m not kidding.

I think it actually looks better, in spite of being an older design. That Buick, like all modern Buicks, is so “meh” that we could have an entire series about them.

I had a car like this. It bought me my ST, many vacations, and my wife’s rings. I’m not kidding.

Because you have lived in the modern era where the only form of this anymore is Buick (which are so anonymous that they make commercials about this fact and the only real visual cue that it is a Buick is some stick-on vents and badging). They’re all just emulating the Japanese here and failing so miserably at it that…

This probably reflects more on the people that for whatever reason don’t/can’t use the comment section and are stuck on email as their communication method. I’m envisioning my parents, particularly my dad, who still try to apply old fashioned paragraph style from letters to their emails. The fun lead tabs/spaces, the…