Something about driving a car that is the very definition of “transportation” without a single frill or thrill is almost cathartic. Hell, I find myself idly wanting to swap my loaded Mazda3 for a stripped Yaris iA for those reasons I can’t quite comprehend.

#COTD

4th Gear: It downshifts unexpect3rd Gear:edly to go faster? I see that as a feature, not a bug.

If you’re going to compensate for something small, go really, really big.

Some people say a 900 lb-ft engine is overkill. But one day they’ll need to tow a cruise ship from the dry dock, and that’s when they’ll come crying to you.

Clear corners. Nothing says “I want to be Fast and Furious but drive an automatic Honda Civic because I don’t know how to drive stick and it’s all I could afford on a high school part time wage” better than violating NHTSA lighting codes on your only car.

Whether it’s called the CX-3 or the CX-4, I strongly suspect it’s going to replace the existing CX-3 and thus eliminate the existing Mazda2 platform from US vehicle offerings, amortizing the cost of that platform and its 1.5L engine by producing en-masse on contract for Toyota’s Yaris line.

With how much energy it took to raise a turd dispenser like me, I’m not surprised he doesn’t know much of the 80s and 90s.

Was watching the game with my father last night when this ad came on, which led him to ask “Supra? Who makes that?”

Your Beetle and Pao sure don’t.

Yeah they were using that to aggressively clear out the MY2018 Mazda3's. I myself have a 2015 that’s fully paid off and I’d like to keep this [lack of] payment schedule as long as I can...

Neutral: As an automotive enthusiast whose influence on the industry is limited to the comments section on BrownManualDieselMiataLongrooflopnik, fifth gear concerns me the most because lower consumer confidence going forward means less sales of fun and enthusiast cars, which are always the most vulnerable to be…

I cringe every time I see someone pop the car into gear and drive off almost immediately after the starter motor kicks the engine on. It’s not a complicated concept - if you turn the car on and the engine’s sitting at a high idle, the engine is warming itself up (so wait until the revs fall a bit) or it’s one of…

That is the worst looking interior I’ve laid eyes upon since I sat in a 1990s Hyundai Accent whose previous long-term owner was a chain smoker.

And now that AAA’s done this, next year the NHTSA will mandate all new cars be equipped with Automatic Intelligent Dynamic Systems, making all of the above moot.

I was 15 and just a couple weeks away from being eligible for my learner’s permit. One of my friends had turned 16 a month prior and swung by my parents’ house with two of my other buddies (which I’m pretty sure was against the law in our state - no more than one passenger for the first 90 days if I recall) in the…

AuToPiLoT iSn’T fUlL aUtOnOmY iT’s A pIlOt AsSiStAnCe PrOtOcOl

Gezundheit.

Of course, Tesla absolutely does not want anyone doing this with Autopilot, under any circumstances.

They’re holding it up because they want it to produce 300 horsepower, mate to the AWD system with the 6MT, get 50MPG highway, and be available in a trim that will go out the door for under $30,000.