Haha, you are so triggered. Relax.

I track my cars though, so the alternative would be a RAV4 + a track car that would get even worse combined mileage, or the one car that does both.

I know, right? Probably should just ride a fixie around since my commute is only 4 miles each way.

It would be mass cremations, not burials.

Current US fleet size is nearly 300 million vehicles. Around 30% (~90 million) are CUVs. Additionally, 41% of all new car sales are CUVs, so the fleet mix will skew even more heavily towards CUVs as time goes on.

You even admit in your post that a wagon or hatchback could do the job. Do most people need that additional space more than once or twice a year? No. You can rent trucks or SUVs cheaply from Home Depot or your local Hertz/Enterprise/etc for those special use cases. Or ask a friend with a truck to help.

I was responding to someone who said they had 5 kids. In that case, you have to either drive a van or a large SUV, which are functionally the same. Otherwise I 100% agree with you. See my post below on added US fleet fuel consumption because of CUVs. It’s ~3-4 billion additional gallons burned per year.

Just about isn’t the same.

You were wondering why there is hate directed at SUVs/crossovers. The reasons I highlighted above are some of them. Also, they make it harder for those of us driving cars to see and a lot of times they cannot see us.

And yet they are demonstrably worse at everything that makes a car a car except for maybe slightly more storage space.

It looks awful and exactly like every other economy car these days (Hyundai et al). The original is much better. Maybe polarizing, but at least that means that some people like it.

+1 for puns

Except the S85 is about the furthest thing from an F1 engine, but I get your point. #pedantic

From the government and is collected by taking a small percent of each paycheck from employees and employers (2.4% from employees, 4% from employers). It’s the same as collecting unemployment in the US, but European countries (generally) have a longer eligibility period.

Yep.

Price is very, very high. Similar cars are going for ~$70k at dealer auction.

I don’t see AMG GTs with clean titles and low-ish milage getting to 40K for a very long time (much longer than 3 years). They made too many initially and flooded the market, leading to low residual values, but they won’t drop another 30k.

Which 911? An AMG GT S will run rings around a non-GT or Turbo 911 and is cheaper. A 991.2 GTS might be a close comparison, but they are also a lot more expensive than an AMG GT S.

You can find ‘16s with <25k miles for $65k all day on Manheim. Clean title, not a lemon. Crack pipe pricing here.

Sportscar racing naturally ebbs and flows. It’s boring to me these days because the racing so heavily influenced by BoP. If one manufacturer makes a brilliant car, any advantage is quickly BoP’d away.