I - and I think many others - take issue with the ST badging. Historically it applied to small affordable vehicles that gave you way more performance (and oft the ability to row your own gears) than the base model or equivalently priced vehicles from competitors. It was a sporty and affordable halo small-car choice…

RS owner here, not an ST, but the same applies: Ford is dead to me. They somehow think the Edge ST will be the “step-up” vehicle for smaller vehicle owners, and I cannot see in what world they thought these 2 segment customers were overlapping

In summary, it’s a bloated overpriced CUV not worthy of the ST badge. What was wrong with the “Sport” badging? Ford gets a grade of FU for killing small cars in favor of more slop

Came across one of these a few years ago in Quebec once and was very perplexed. It clearly looked like a Civic, but as I passed it, it had all this Acura livery and different body kit bits. In all, was very cool to see!

So why are you here?

Water droplets obscure the damn things?! What happens when there is a snow or ice storm out? Are you just done?

Also, wtf is the point of these? Improved gas mileage? How much improved is it when replaced by a heavier more expensive to produce and maintain item(s)? Items that I imagine are likely also worse in terms of…

But why? It seems in every way worse.

What a find! Love it. It’s adorable in a strange way

I’m not seeing the driver error. Aggressive driving? Maybe. Driver error? Debatable. You clearly weren’t going to hit the other car, and your car’s maneuver could have easily lead to a rear-end. The camera angle makes it look like you were already past the other car anyway, and that definitely feels wrong

What’s funny is that every new of these CUV types basically looks like the Crosstour now. Like the X6 or a GLE is basically a super-sized crosstour. In that way they were way ahead of their time, as clearly the market is giving this style a massively bloated thumbs up now!

“... and don’t call me Shirley!”

Yeah, I don’t know. My perspective is between NY and NJ. I was paying $70 in upstate NY, then moved to NJ right outside of NYC, and identical coverage was $210. I did shop around, and all insurers had the same rates, so it wasn’t a fluke. I then moved back out and coverage dropped back down to $70.

My non-Si Civic cost ~$210/mo to insure near a major city. Location matters

Insurance is all heavily location-based. I’ve paid around $70/mo in one place for the same car that I paid $210/mo near a major city

Headline reads like a disease!

I can echo this sentiment. Growing up it seemed like Yeltsin didn’t have his shit together, and then Putin came along on his bright white horse of a savior, and everyone cheered him on. He would end the conflict in Chechnya, terrorism, and make Russia a great world player.

Feel like it would get sickening at that rate. 10 years of going to Olive Garden every other month!

There’s something absolutely hilarious how one of them exits perfectly vertically upwards in a “my people need me!” kind of way

+1 from this Millennial on the general concept of better usage of vocabulary. Not sure on the ‘youts’ dig, seems a slippery slope.

I have no complaints about the PS 4Ses. They feel identical to their PSS predecessor in fact, as they should. There is one caveat: the OEM PSSes are actually semi-custom in that the outer tread is built softer presumably to play better with drift mode, but I didn’t care for such shenanigans. Ain’t nobody got time to…