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Same reason you're trading your Cobalt for a Focus... INSANITY!

He showed me the window sticker, $30,900 MSRP. Mine was $32,520... there's not much of a difference in substance between our two trucks... foglamps are now available in a kit if he so desires for $300 (he could install them himself, I think)... he also had chrome door handles put on. It's a real nice rig he's got!

Nah they're still firmly ensconced in their smooth satchel thanks.

Well the seat physically takes up space necessarily. There could instead be a lower load floor or an under-floor storage area.

Update: my fuel mileage has gone down a bit with winter fuel. I've been getting around 22.5 the last few tanks. And an uncle of mine ordered his own 2016 Colorado back in October (surprise!) and took delivery on Xmas Eve. His is a WT extended cab 4X4 in silver with the light gray interior and the decor package, with 3.6L, trailering package and G80 positraction. He traded in his '92 Silverado he's had since new. He's tickled with it so far. Meanwhile I've turned over 15,500 miles on mine, with no visits to the dealer for warranty work. It is breaking in beautifully and I love it. I did need to have it checked for loose seat mounting bolts, but mine was torqued to spec, no need for adjustment.

Manufacturers need to decide if their CUV is going to be a daytrip bus (3-row with no room for "stuff") or capacious 2-row for longer road trips/vacations. I'd rather have a two-row CUV... the room taken up by a third row can go to cargo capacity instead.

Cheers bobo!

No third row. RDZ did have a third row, and a surprisingly decent one...... Yup I think the Envision is a two-row though.

My lawn right now.

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balthazar is actually the original owner of his 1940 Ford COE.

Is this the poster you're thinking of? I had this on a t-shirt back in the day.

For Rendezvous adherents who have gone beyond running their vehicles into the ground, they love them so much.

Well Mr. dfelt you sawr the spy shots. The Bolt was silver, not green.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The only Bolt we've seen so far is silver, in the spy photos.

Before I helped my mom get her latest vehicle end of last winter, a Versa Note SV wit CVT, I took her to test out a current Spark with CVT. The car wasn't bad, but the CVT was atrocious in that thing. Nissan has theirs programmed pretty well at this point (and they should, they stick them in just about everything they sell.) If I take out the worst trait of the current Spark, and add grown-up style plus a host of other improvements (Opel?) Der Neu Spark should be a fun little Sprite to maneuver through life in.

Oh you know I love a 70's B-body... but there is something cool about pocket-size stuff too.

Haha... the base model Impreza is extremely cheap EVERYWHERE above the AWD chassis. I'd rather have a livable cabin with decent trim, as on the higher trim level Imprezas and Crosstrek, although if I think about it the base Crosstrek is also pretty cheap inside.

I admit to having a perverse attraction to tiny, fun, internal combustion automobiles. I must get it from my mother and my maternal grandfather's brother, Uncle Henry. He showed up at the farm at various times in an early Porsche 911... and a VW 411. Hmmm... the 1LT is still very decent and it's only $15,500. I think I could do without heated vinyl seats (I prefer the cloth anyway) and chrome beltline moldings, among other minor trim details, to save $1500. 1LT still comes with my beloved foglamps and alloys.

You haven't driven my Toronado.... Hmmm... let me amend that. It can be fun to drive a slow nimble car fast. The front bumper on an '81 Toronado prolly weighs 2200 pounds. Cappy that's not too bad for fuel mileage there. I forget what I was getting in my '11 Fiesta SE 1.6 manual. There is a thread buried in the annals here somewhere about it.

Haha, they even have a sweet little black alloy wheel with gray spoke inserts as an accessory!

To achieve the advertised horsepower figures, 93 octane is required per the Ford website. No doubt high test is needed to achieve something close to the advertised fuel mileage as well. And no alloy wheels with the Ecoboost? Way to kill the party. It is an urban pod for those who don't like to drive. In markets where it is a family car it does what a family car does anywhere: delivers people and their stuff from point to point in a competent fashion. I'd like to see an RS but it doesn't appear to have been a priority. I'm an adherent to that old-skool philosophy... it is fun to drive a slow car fast.