Brandon's review of the 2026 Mazda CX-5 ranges from damning it with faint praise to totally ripping it a new one over its design flaws. It gets good around 37:00 (yes, the video is way too long, but like he said, if you're considering spending $40,000+ on one, it may be worth your time to watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHo5CLV8CQQ

Subaru took the Outback, a wagon that appealed to women, turned it into a boxy macho-style SUV despite the company's own focus groups telling them not to change it, and raised the price by $5000, and now is astonished that sales of it have nosedived: https://www.autoblog.com/news/subaru-ditched-the-wagon-and-outback-sales-dropped-over-40

@TechConnectify's term "user-hostile" is the perfect description for automakers doing dumb things like burying the odometer in a touchscreen menu -- and not a new phenomenon, like when Ford and various others moved the horn button to the end of the turn signal stalk in the 1970s. Sometimes "because we've always done it that way" is a perfectly reasonable explanation of why not to change a critical user function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhEWdBgZYo

MBI had the gall to disclaim the IBM logo as a registered trademark of IBM, but then just flip it around and use it as their own.