Jay

Hopefully there will be money allotted in the budget to finally hire an English phonologist who can help them come up with a decent car name if they sell it in the States.

Meh. I'm too spoiled by the greatness of "Dan Stevens" and "Peter O'Keefe."

@BoxerFanatic

That's what I was really hoping for, a liftback version of the Koup. The rear lines of that car with a hatchback version is just what I'd be looking for. Genesis coupe as well.

@LS2LS7

If Leno had changed his mind 3 years ago, 2 years ago, even 1 year ago, that would be one thing. But he changed his mind months after everything was already switched around. Changing his mind years ago would have created a bit of a bump in things but would have given everyone time to work things out. Doing so now has caused a huge train wreck because of the way everything has already been laid out, and it goes against everything he promised.

And yes, it very much does matter what Leno said in 2004. He gave a serious public vow on air to his viewers, and maintained that attitude for years, only to suddenly renege on that in the last several weeks just because the show he moved to afterwards started tanking. It shows a serious lack of character.

It may be difficult to put yourself out to pasture, but that was Leno's choice. Favre unretired but got traded to the Jets because the Packers already planned for life post-Favre and wedging him back in wasn't feasible with the plans they laid out, the way they drafted, and it wasn't fair to Aaron Rodgers. In the short term that worked out for Favre as the Vikings are doing so well. And in the long term, it'll work out for the Packers as they still made the playoffs this year and have a young quarterback to develop and build a team around. Likewise, if Leno said he wanted to retire or go to another network, he could leave and be successful elsewhere and give O'Brien a chance to grow his show, and they could both do well with little drama. But instead he's choosing to muck up a situation in a way that he promised he would not do.

And O'Brien certainly DID have dibs on the show. That was part of his contract...he agreed to not leave the network for more money five years ago, and in return, NBC promised him the show. That's why they're going to have to pay him $40 million or so to leave, because they had a contract for him to take over when Leno left.

First of all, while NBC did negotiate with Leno to transition the Tonight Show to Conan, it wasn't entirely a forced situation. There were several ways NBC was looking to keep Conan from going elsewhere, and that's the one Leno decided to agree to. Leno said on his show that he decided he didn't want to do the show forever, stating "only one person could do this show into their 60s, and that was Johnny Carson, and I'm no Johnny Carson." He willingly decided to give up the show. And NBC gave Leno more than "a couple of years." They gave him five. And his Tonight Show wasn't #1 the entire time it ran. Leno had a very rocky start (much like Conan is having now), and Letterman beat Leno in the ratings for a while at first. But NBC gave Leno a chance to build and grow his show, and eventually he found his audience and flourished.

So now Conan, having been promised for 5 years that this job would be his, and having turned down very lucrative offers from other networks in the process to make this happen, inherits the show and finds himself not getting nearly the support Leno got when Leno first started out. Not only is NBC pulling the plug on him without giving him a chance to build his audience like Leno did, but one of the reasons Conan's Tonight Show is having such a tough time building is because of Leno's 10 o'clock show, the ratings of which are bad enough to ruin the ratings for local news affiliates and their 11 o'clock news broadcasts, and thereby destroying the potential audience leading into Conan's show.

Leno, on air, said that he didn't want to see anyone go through what happened when there was the fracas between him and Letterman. He then said, "This show is like a dynasty. You hold it and then you hand it off to the next person, and I don't want to see all of the fighting and who's better and nasty things back and forth in the press. So right now, here it is, Conan, it's yours."

NBC is screwing a lot of this up, so it's not entirely Leno's fault and I'm not saying he's "a villain" in all of this. But in everything leading up to this, Leno said he was willingly getting out of the way, and that he respected the show and everyone involved, and didn't want to cause any more animosity. If that were true, he would get out of the way, and be as gracious as he was when he said he was stepping down. He's choosing to wedge himself back into an affair after he said he was finished with the show, doing exactly what he said he did NOT want to do, going back on a lot of agreements and promises, and messing things up for Conan, who waited very patiently for a long time to be given this opportunity when he could have gone elsewhere years ago. So while Leno may not be "a villain," he has appeared to be extremely disingenuous about this whole affair.

I don't know why the sedan just can't have the same grille that the hatchback does.

Either way, I want the hatchback far more than the sedan anyways. Can't wait to see this on American lots soon!

I like how the video repeatedly makes a huge deal about things that every car already had. Warning lights in the instrument cluster! Woooo!

I'm already interested in just the standard Fiesta. If they actually built this and gave it the right motor, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

I had an '01 Elantra that had cupholders in both the center console and in the map pocket area on the doors. I didn't really use the door cupholders much but when I did, they were actually very good at holding tall cups and bottles. The center console cupholders were easier to reach, though.

Had a Ford Taurus with a pop-out set of cupholders just below the radio. It was very slick, until you realized you couldn't operate the radio if you had a drink there.

The custom Hummer at least had some semblance of cohesion. This is so awful that just installing the mods required haz-mat certification.