I know the story of the Beetle and it does not make it an animate object with feelings or biases. It is a car nothing more. It is not a racist car or a progssive car, it is a car. Cars don’t think. Especially cars with a distributor and points.

A beetle is an inanimate object it is not responsible for the politics of its designers. Mitsubishi made Zeroes and we all love the Evo as we should. It’s an aburd comment on your part to try to make a conversation about a car into something about the long dead assholes who conceived it. Ford was a Nazi sympathizer,…

Why????

I mentioned the A6 because you brought it up. I personally sold my A6 to buy an S3 after test driving an S6. So, I am positive you can’t say “nobody.”I might be the traditional A/S6 demographic but I thought the smaller car was a better drive. Though the S3 hardly a fast car. It’s fastish at best. The bigger S car…

It’s based on a mini. Mini’s are a blast to drive. Sure it’s not a purists BMW, but if it’s fun to drive, and affordable, I see no reason to care.

I sort of get that, I drive a manual.  But the 235 is a vastly higher performance car in every metric.  I would take the 235 over anything short of a Type R.

I have owned a few of these cars. It somewhat depends on trim. A loaded A4 is closer to an A6 than it is an A3.

No one overpays for a Stellantis.

This was very confusing. I cam to see the “Worst New Car Deals” and ended up reading something about the worst new car dealer markups. These are not the same thing.

There is no way I am giving these people my insurance information.  I am not even getting out of the car.  I don’t call the cops and report an accident, I call the cops and report an assault.  I will wait all day.

“The beetle (even new) was a legitimately shitty car.”

I had a previous gen and it was a really great car.  It did not have the tail out drama of some other cars out there and it was not going to be a great track weapon.  But, it may have been the best street car I’ve ever owned and I regret selling it.   Had it been a manual I am sure I would never have let it go.

Another counterpoint:

WAIT!!!.

Jeeps are so bad on road and so unreliable I can’t see recommending any Jeep. the only reason to get the 2 door would be if you were going to use it as a dedicated off roader. The short wheel base is good off road but makes it even more unstable and reduces its towing capacity for on road use. It’s not about the rear…

I get the two fingers down regularly from other riders. I never worried about specifically what it meant.  It just seemed friendly.  I rarely return it if there is any traffic about.  If it’s about safety, then the safest wave is no wave.  

I disagree with the “more support” angle. This is not going to be an on/off switch of a transition. Engines will continue to be produced for quite a while. Attrition and retraining of younger workers will cover most of the transition. This is not like cars replacing horses where the skillset overlap is very…

There’s two kinds of automotive stupidity. Harmful and harmless. Prop cars are harmless and if they bring joy to their owners I don’t have to understand. I wish their owners all the joy in the world even though I don’t get it.

The only thing that is more insane than Musks views on his investors stupidity, is the actual stupidity of his investors.

There are no boring cars.  Just boring drivers.