Neutral - The economy got a little better, or more importantly people are feeling better about their finaincial situation, and credit is still cheap. You combine that with some serious incnentives and a lot of good products that hit the market in 2015 and we buy “ALL THE CARS!”

and then you’re still left with the pile of gravel under the above ground swimming pool

Hellaflush equals instant crack pipe. Price notwithstanding.

STOP RIGHT THERE!

It’s important to know that buyers in this segment primarily shop on price above all else. Since the 2016 Accord just got a facelift (and an ugly one at that, come at me bro). Current average discounts are around 2k. You can pick up a 2015 Accord for about $4500 of sticker if you can find one. However, 2016 Camrys are…

DPFs do not control NOx emissions. They are purely in place to collect particulates which are burnt off at a later time via filter regeneration. The only time NOx numbers can be affected by the DPF is in the event of NO2 storage during high filter soot load, and it is a negligable value.

Patrick: DPFs and DEF. Both serve to remove NOx emissions, though mostly the SCR (DEF). They were avoiding adding it because it’s a pain in the ass and one more thing for the customer to have to deal with/service. The 3.0L TDI got it a while ago; I doubt they wanted to add it to their base model vehicles that had the…

Something in the rear broke, and the whole rear end came out.

You would lose. Pay up.

Oh hey this happened on my way to work on Tuesday (about 2pm ish)! I was luckily going the other direction. There are some pretty serious bumps in the road on this stretch of I-95 that really should get fixed and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the cause and he had a blowout.

Podunk yahoo America. The first country to have The Bomb. The only country to have gone to the moon. The country that invented the telephone, the television, motion pictures, and even the Internet we’re using right now.

This. A hundred times this. It’s usually the bean counters who wind up being the root cause. Remember the Ford Pinto Memo? $11 per car to remedy Pinto gas tank defects, and Ford declined to spend the money because of the bean counters “cost-benefit analysis.”

Nothing will change at Volkswagen see this quote:

I find it hard to believe that a Mazda 6 is equally an enthusiast car as a pony car.

Seriously? That stupid GT-r LM made a list of best race cars of 2015? What a joke. A car that debuted without sufficient testing, embarrassed itself, and faded back into the background. Who cares that it’s “thinking outside the box”, it didn’t work and is a flawed approach to begin with.

Let me get this straight. You are concerned with reliability, so your plan is to buy a 1st year production ALFA ROMEO?

Even if you synced North America and Europe, that would be a huge benefit. That could drive the rest of the large markets to sync as well.

Well he was used to fiats so.....

Those early cats only oxydized HC and CO, they couldn't reduce NOx. That's what EGR systems were for, introducing an inert gas into the combustion process to prevent the combustion temperatures from reaching NOx formation levels, 2500F. A secondary benefit is reduced pumping losses. It's interesting how lean it must…