Is it bad I want it
Iâm not a Honda guy by any stretch, but I find it rather intriguing myself.
Those things. Bleh.
Honda has successfully created the worlds first crossover CUV. Thatâs right a Crossover Crossover-Utility-Vehicle !
Because you know⊠we crossed lines that shouldnât have been crossed which made new lines. So naturally we gotta cros those too. 
CUV means compact utility vehicle fyi
nevermind, Iâve been lied to my whole life
Crossover CUV
Thatâs on par with Land Rover Discovery Sport - a sports SUV
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Panamera is exactly what I thought. What a mess!
Something about that shoulder line down the side as well⊠For a start, itâs an innie, not an outie.
Second, the front door handles line up with it but the rears donât. That would drive me crazy.
I used to hate the i3 with a passion, but my dad bought one and itâs such a good car that the looks have grown on me quite a bit.
I donât like most of the alloys though, or the 2-tone bodywork. I asked as a joke in the dealership whether they sold it with body-coloured bumpers - the salesman said âno, but you can have a bumper-coloured body?â, which frankly suggests they get asked that all the time.
In all-black with the right wheels they look pretty cool and chunky if you ask me
The front is still a mess, but it looks better in person than in pictures. The double kidney grille is incorporated very clumsily and always reminds me of the pigs from Angry Birds
It really is uncanny.
Iâm surprised the latest facelift didnât rein in the nose a bit, BMW facelifts are a bit of a mixed bag but they did a fairly nice job on the 5-series.
Bad cars? Oh boy here we go!
Hereâs my question: what do all of these Fordâs and Lincolnâs have in common?
They all have Fordâs infamous 5R55 transmission. What is so bad you ask? These transmissions are made of glass. They are known for failing their solenoids, slipping from 2-3 and losing all together 3rd gear, overheating, only using 2nd gear and more. This may not sound too bad, but the real problem lies in how early and how often they occur.
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Early 80s Cadillac Seville dieselâŠ
Weird? Check.
Bad? Check.
Ugly? Check.
Wonderful comfort when they werenât broken though 
My aunt had one in the 90s, minimal risk of meeting another one in northern Sweden⊠
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At least it has a nice retro rear end.
Well, time to represent my country the best way I can;
The Vinci GT. Our personal idea of a supercar. Engine-wise, the idea was sound; a 6-liter Corvette small-block! Until the engineering team behind the Vinci mated it to its transmission; a 4-speed automatic (also taken from a 'Vette). OopsâŠ
To top it all off, two lovely facts; the design was described by journalists as the âmeeting between a 550 Maranello and a sperm whaleâ. Also, when it was presented in front of the then Prime-Minister JosĂ© SocrĂĄtes in Boavista, it refused to start.
You might be surprised to hear its planned run of 50-100 models never happened. Or then again, you might just nod and go âyapâ. Whichever suits you better.
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That looks like someoneâs first Automation car on a C5 body
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Donât look at the Vinciâs interior then, that idea might stick like glue to your brain;
Effort spent making interior unique: Wasnât bothered/10
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idk why, but the steering wheel is oddly a little disturbing to meâŠ
I wish these made it to production. Theyâre actually pretty cool from certain angles. Like a cooler Solstice before there were Solstices.
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The Mercedes C-class 203-series (circa 00-07)âŠ
Itâs not ugly and itâs not weird. It didnât have to be bad either, it was wonderful to drive, comfortable, good handling, was one of the safest cars on the market in its time, easy to wrench on and it really gave you the feeling of build quality.
But why did it had to stay at the feeling?
You could live with the electrical gremlins and the front suspension that ate bushings and joints for breakfast. But for a car that was as expensive as this, there is absolutely no excuse for a body thatâs as weatherproof as an unpainted cardboard box. The paint could be peeled off by hand as time passed by, with water trapped underneath (!), front fenders, doors, sills, rear wheelarches, tailgate under license plate and rear window, floor and crossmembers (hidden under plastic panels so hard to notice until too late), there was not a single part that wasnât affected by the brown pestâŠ
Clearly one of the car purchases I regret the most. Which is sad, because as a car it was really lovely.
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But but mUh GeRmAn QuALiTy!!!1!1!!1!!!
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Old mercs was unbreakable, my grandfather bought a 1971 220D in 1973 that he drove 1.1 million kilometers with, then my aunt drove it for some years in the late 80s/early 90s. Sure, it was pretty worn out everywhere by then, but with that mileage I guess that itâs OKâŠ
The early 00s seems to be a low watermark for MB. Sad, because I remember how impressed I was about them by then, much drooling in car magazines for me in my early teens, and I still think that it is one of their best periods design-wiseâŠ
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Late 1990s and 2000s Mercs do not age well. At all.
For lack of a better way to describe it, Mercs from that era look âweatheredâ by 2018. The paint is dull; the seams and lines donât match up anymore; the plastic trim pieces rattle around and fall off; the body panels almost look dented. Its the same exact look that contemporary GM cars have. That look that you donât see on contemporary Toyotas and Hondas.