For me it’s entirely the Mustang name. If they had just called it the Ford Mach-E I’d be all over it.

In 2019, you can buy, new:

You can’t expect to gain a foothold in the market when nobody knows what to call your cars and you only make each model for a few years at a time before giving up. Imagine if every generation of iPhone was almost as good, but not quite as good as the competition, so instead of improving the “iPhone”, they dumped the…

but less enthusiastic

What’s the difference between H20i and a hardware store?

“This car is a 1 in a million car now”

I’d wager the application they’re targeting is advanced active safety features in manual transmission cars. With a purely hydraulic clutch, it’s impossible for a car to have an emergency braking system that wouldn’t stall the engine, and it’s difficult to implement a radar cruise control system (car can alter speeds,…

I put a 3.0L M54B30 in one of these, no supporting modifications. It was stupendously, horrendously unhinged. It’s favorite trick was swapping ends whilst trying to join traffic. The tactic was to just let it go and get off the gas when you were once more pointing in the right direction.

Yodacode43's orange Jetta:

So, these are pretty much stories of poor planning and poor decision making. The only difference from most days on Jalopnik is they weren’t written by David Tracy.