I see something scarier than an ax or a chainsaw or any other yardworking tool every day in people’s hands as they drive

In Texas, isn't he likely bringing an axe to a concealed carry fight?

Take a trip without a destination in mind, you say?

It’s definitely buyer beware, but it can be a great “cheat”.

Weep quietly and pray to Oden that the new Chinese owbers will resurrect the brand?

I grew up in a Chrysler Household. Tought me the pain of brand loyalty. Guess which brand gets a HARD pass from me nowadays. Sorry, not brand loyal. New Yorkers, LeBarons, Sebrings, Neons. I think only one Sebring went over 130K and that was painful. It would be a constant cycle of buying a Chrysler because it was…

Mini definitely is a brand with a lot of loyalty. As a Mini owner myself, it’s got a whole car subculture that surrounds it. Apart from being fun cars to drive, they truly are unique and stand out amongst all the cookie cutter SUVs. Many of us, like your parents, go on drives with our local Mini owners’ groups and…

I have owned (and currently own) more GM vehicles than anything else, but I’m not really brand loyal. My immediate family has also sampled deep from the well of automotive marques.

I’d like to say my family has loyalty, but it’s more that my family has streaks with certain brands.

My parents bought a ‘90 Sonata brand new, and as they didn’t really get burned by it (helped by it getting written off at 5 years old), they’ve now owned about a half-dozen Hyundais (several of which were buying out the lease on some of my aunt’s cars, who’s owned a half dozen or so Hyundais herself). My in-laws are…

My parents, after the kids left home, became a Mini household for some reason. They own 2 at the moment, and have had many more. They go on Mini rallies around the southeast. They went to England and rented a Mini for an England rally. My mom got a tattoo, her first, to match the graphics on the side of their car.

I think there are three differences between the first-gen Vibe and Matrix interiors. Two are obvious, the badges and stereo.

This thing spawned my favorite OEM part of all time: A Toyota badge with a GM part number

I *might* be the genesis for another Vibe-related post on Jalopnik... I mentioned it to DT at Woodward a couple weeks back. I have no shame for this.

Too bad GM wasn’t smart enough to offer a RHD Vibe in the US for postal use. When the Vibe debuted, they had just stopped making the Saturn S-series, which was sold in RHD form for both US domestic postal use as well as exported to Japan.

“they had a bunch of G8 parts”

I don’t know where this fits on the badge-engineering scale, but when GM got out of the Pontiac business, they had a bunch of G8 parts in Australia, and nothing to use them on. The solution?

What’s funny is most times it was literally just a badge on the same grille sold in the US.

And those 3 people would say "That's not a Voltz, the steering wheel is on the wrong side"

Just a bit of trivia on the badge thing. Toyota is the largest car maker in Japan and they started to get a bit concerned that every second car had a Toyota badge on the front. So in the early ‘90s they started placing ‘model’ badges on the front of the cars. There are stacks of Toyotas that don’t have a Toyota badge…