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Thanks for all the comments. I do feel a bit of a sense of loss, as this is the first car I've had in well over a decade that isn't some variety of performance vehicle. And yeah, I do kind of miss that cool factor seeing it in the parking lot, or driving by envious kids :). Overall, though, at...

Thanks! And yeah, that's sort of the plan. If the next few years allow, I'd love to get to a place where I can replace my wife's SUV with an EV and also spring for a summer fun car for me.

Nope, just being neighborly. But you do you.

Once the prices of used cars started going into orbit, I began occasionally checking what my 2020 might be worth. Mind you, I loved (still love) the car in many ways; it is probably the most perfect example I've driven of function matching intent, and in certain situations absolutely sublime to...

The challenge in selling now is finding something to replace it. Especially if you live in a small market, not a big city, any manual transmission car is hard to find, much less one you'd actually want to drive. Dealers are taking deposits on cars in transit and then selling them out from under...

Honda does its back and forth pendulum swing again, from wild to mild. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Me, I think the new one is kind of like the new Acura Integra. Looks...ok. I kind of dig the wild look of my 2020; it's the only car I've owned where people constantly wave, give...

Not sure I follow. The same cost cutting calculations go into all of the cars at this price point, regardless of model. Not apologizing for anything; the infotainment system sucks, we all know it. But that's what Honda chose to skimp on across the board. In this case, it helps pay for the fancy...

They had to cut costs in some places to deliver on the real goodies, the automotive engineering. You don't get this sort of suspension, steering, and drivetrain at this price point without sacrificing something. I will admit, though, that they might have gone a bit too far down Frugality Lane...

Wow, that's quite an impressive project! My hat is off to you for tackling this beast.

Oy vey. That's an impressive list, spanning a whole lot of systems. You, sir, are to be commended for your fortitude--you have quite the project ahead of you I think! But, um, I have no clue what those codes mean, sadly. Best of luck--it will be so cool if when you get that puppy back on the road!

A lot of the back and forth here though is not really disagreement. Everyone agrees that objectively a tune introduces some risk. Whether that risk is minimal, substantial, or too much becomes a personal decision based on a lot of variables. Like most complex questions, there is no one size fits...

They look kind of cool, but are they legal in the USA? We have some damn odd rules about lights and stuff.

There's always this:

Good to hear from someone who owned one. I considered one back in the day, and sort of wish I had given it a shot; the car looked so cool.

Indeed. Didn't the CR-Z have a manual? It wasn't the greatest example of the breed, but it had potential.

True, but the only reason to prefer ICE cars to EVs really is that third pedal. Especially once we start to get EVs at more price points and in more niches. Going ICE with an automatic does give you lots of performance choices, but for me once you ditch a clutch you might as well just go full EV...

Ouch. Glad you and your son are ok. Cars can be replaced, people, not so much. We live in a country where paradoxically automobiles are a near-necessity for most folks, yet we do virtually nothing to make sure people actually know how to operate them safely. Perhaps it's because cars are a...

I get ~25 MPG and have pretty consistently since I bought the car two years ago. I only drive about 8k miles a year, almost all of it from home to work and on errands, surface streets 35-50mph with a small bit of interstate tossed in. At six bucks a gallon gas is nasty expensive, but at least...