I don’t know that driving a manual transmission in the way you mention has ever saved me, but I do have a manual gas pedal. Not flooring it every time I touch it has saved me millions....maybe even billions.

Been to China? Buicks all over the place.

Had my Civic hatch for 17 years. Loved that car. And when I was done, just couldn’t go back to Honda. Makes no sense.

While I miss my Civic hatch of the same vintage, it’s impossible to find these things unbutchered, and even then, they’re so lightweight and predate the days of many safety features....wouldn’t want to be in a wreck in one of these.

You can get the same vehicle, badged as a Q40 (I think, Infiniti nomenclature is confusing). Up until 2014 as I recall, so 3yrs old still fits the bill.

I think you are applying 90's Pontiac-level quality (there’s a misnomer) universally. Not every brand employs chimps in quality control.

What’s fueling the backup generators?

This. If the general public showed that it wanted (by way of purchase power) ultra-high MPG vehicles, it could be and would be done. That’s not how the mass public purchases, so automakers are squawking at having to develop vehicles that they know the mass market largely won’t support.

#2. “Savings” is the wrong word to use here. Automakers know that the CAFE standards are going to force them to invest in technologies that people (as a marketplace) largely don’t want / are unwilling to pay for. It’s not that the automakers are saving (inferring decreased expenditures from present), it’s that they…

Uh, no. ABS is there to both add control and to decrease braking distances (e.g., avoid skidding, which would increase braking distance). You can have one, or the other, or a combination of the two. But if you are steering while braking, you’re decreasing your ability to stop by whatever traction is being used to…

I’m gonna challenge the idea that locked wheels will stop you faster on ANY surface. In the majority of situations (dry pavement), locked wheels are a bad thing, even if we’re solely talking about getting to a straight-line stop ASAP. You want maximum traction between tires/road, which is just before the tires lock…

Stopped by the Genesis booth at the Chicago auto show and came away very impressed by the G90. Don’t know what the price difference is between the G80 / G90, but the G90 seemed a long, long ways ahead of the G80.

Problem for Honda here is need versus perceived need. For Nissan Leaf, I believe they found that their range (~80miles) addressed the needs of 95% percent of all trips drivers make. But it’s the perception of what consumers need 5% of the time that really affected whether they’d buy a Leaf, or the ‘what if’ factor.

Not sure if it’s the same engine you’re referring to, but had a ‘99 Caravan with the 3.3L. Back 3 could be changed if you jacked up the van and pulled all sorts of gumby to reach the plugs. If memory serves me correctly, you could see the back 3 plugs just behind some sort of heat shield if you were coming in from…

This video brought back TONS of memories. Just a few notes:

Drove mine for 17 years. No major theft, but it did get broken into twice:

14inchers on the Si / VX (think it was 14in on VX, it certainly wasn’t larger), otherwise you ended up with 13inches.

Aztec Pearl Green. Same color as mine. They changed the color in 1995 (last year of that gen), apparently because folks didn’t like it. It was definitely the worst thing about my car.

Can’t speak for the VX, but I can say that on my DX hatch I got very respectable mileage and I routinely beat EPA MPG’s. 42mpg between Salt Lake City / Las Vegas on one trip.

Agreed. I had a 94 DX hatch, what is a true unicorn is finding one that wasn’t butchered to death. Like mine, which blew its engine while we were moving from the deep South to the Midwest in 2012.