*Miatas and CX-5s

I see what you did there

Call me crazy but listen again - could it be the SkyActiv inline-6 with some conservative exhaust piping?

I feel like this car is low-volume enough, significant enough, and important enough to make a case for the vaunted 25-year import rule waiver here in the States. Anyone got a quarter million dollars and the guts to try?

This is officially the dumbest customization option I’ve ever seen, and I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit combing through MINI and Porsche configurators.

Man, it hurts me to CP a Previa, especially one this clean, but it’s at least $1,500 too high on the asking. With a clean 5-speed swap I could argue it, but these aren’t in excessively short supply. There’ll be more to come asking closer to fair market prices.

Finally, someone using their mall-crawler for a mall-crawling-adjacent activity.

Autonomous Sex Closet is the name of my R.E.O. Speedwagon tribute band.

Good. I bought the manual and will join the mob yelling at clouds.

Oh man, don’t even get me started on the insurance side of the gig economy. So many people get easily baited into driving assuming they’ll be covered under their personal auto insurance if they get in accident while driving for Lyft or Uber.

Wait, if we bought the manual, wagon, or the manual wagon new from a dealer, do we get a free pass to spew vitriol at the disappearance of these things?

If you want to participate in the gig economy with your Tesla, go nuts. After 5+ years of taxi duty that car will be worthless, and the morsels of revenue share Tesla pays you might offset the car’s accelerated depreciation, maintenance, and repair costs.

I’ve seen a single Jeep 4.0 L6 go through 4 chassis in 25 years before it...well it didn’t die, it just got hydrolocked by the final owner’s incompetence then scrapped.

And yet when I need four tires it takes two days for the shop to get them and a 45 minute appointment to mount and balance. Disgusting.

So Porsche will build, at most, two identical 911s per year, while Tesla will offer, at most, two identical cars from week to week. Got it.

“Easy to get in and out of” is a gigantic selling point for...

26k delivered for the entry level AWD model...unless you’re referring to a non-US market?

By the time this is all put into a Mazda3 (don’t forget one or more LSDs, too), the price of the car shoots up into the $35k range, where it’s now getting cross-shopped against the STi, Golf R, and Civic Type R, while being slower than all three and trying to get by with a torsion-beam rear in a field saturated by…

How about a new affordable and tunable sports car, like the 240?

I don’t even like Jeeps, but everything I’ve read and seen about the Jeep community makes me want one. You all might be on the edge of clinically insane, but you’re the benchmark for automotive culture.