A turbo-charged Christmas wish list...
By David Menzies
Finally, it’s Christmas. And in keeping with the spirit of the season (i.e., doing a slow burn due to the realization that you once again didn’t get what you wanted), here are my Christmas gift wishes for members of Auto Nation. Hopefully, Santa was good this year – less “no, no, no” and more “ho, ho, ho.”
For BMW: A new driver interface. Despite a couple of revamps, iDrive remains as maddening as ever and the time has come to admit defeat and give iDrive the uBoot.
For Chevrolet: A Camaro convertible.
For Dodge: A Challenger convertible. (Why must we always wait longer for the ragtop versions?)
For Ferrari: Lower prices. Or are the prancing horse people completely recession-proof?
For Honda: Bring back the CRX already!
For Jeep: Discontinuation of brand-diluting vehicles such as the front-wheel-drive Compass and Patriot.
For Kia: A spellchecker. Regarding the two-seater Forte, what’s the deal spelling “coupe” as “koup”?
For Mercedes-Benz: Post-it Note labels on Mercedes turn signal levers reminding purchasers that this complicated device should indeed be flicked up or down when turning and/or changing lanes.
For Pontiac and Saturn: Um... never mind.
For Saab: An owner that knows how to market this brand. Translation: whatever General Motors did the past two decades, do the precise opposite and perhaps those cars will indeed sell.
For Subaru: New spokesmen. In other words, no more therapy-inducing images of super-sized sumo wrestlers getting wet all over while washing cars.
For Volvo: Proper names for models such as S40, V50, XC90... all right, already – you sunk my battleship!
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