Nah. If it was Swedish, it’d be a 96% grey, not black.

Could also be for safety.

And yet it’s probably been an unknown scourge for Honda dealerships and owners everywhere trying to understand why “the cubby door jams every time I park in my inclined drive” and/or “there’s this weird clunk from the dash whenever I gas it or climb a hill or hit certain bumps in the road”.

Why automakers feel like they have to adhere to the same grill-work across their brand is beyond me. All it does is compromise.

BMW forgot the kidney is part of the grille, not the grille.

BMW’s don’t have to look beautiful. They just have to look expensive. As long as it makes people look successful and affluent they’ll keep buying them (or leasing them I guess).

How does restricting the battery make the car cheaper? It sounds like a base-spec model has the same battery as a high-spec model, and therefore cost the same? Unless that line of code cost $9K in man-hours to write?

“If their plan going forward involves finding a way to aggressively ignore their shareholders and stodgy older executives, they’ll be more than fine.”

Why not Crosstour?

So, are we not talking about the unicorn in the top shot? I feel like that deserves a comment or two.

The only thing I got out of this article is the fact that you blurred out a dog’s genitalia. So fucking strange.

It’s not only Honda. Seems like every Japanese carmaker gave up making exciting cars with world-class engineering by the early 2000s (pun intended) to coast on their reputations by selling profitable beigemobiles.

the only thing that gets more coverage than ‘weather’ is ‘traffic’

dawg, thats just people evacuating from work daily

13+ years with Nissan USA says yes, every bit this.

is the internet dead? where the hell is everyone?

Cuss all you want in the body of the article, but for the love of God can you stop dropping F bombs in the title of articles, particularly for something that everyone wants to read like The Morning Shift? You are going to get banned by our IT people, and then I’m going to have to work,

I’m helping!

Of course there is a lot of money leaving your company. Which, in turn, gets replaced by the continued payment of other premiums. That’s what insurance is for! We all pay in so that there is a pool to pull from when the shit hits.
I know that’s a “well duh!” comment, but I’m amazed at all these people screaming about…

IAA has set up a similar offsite location at an industrial lot off Interstate 90 northeast of Houston.