Aaron, I can understand your reaction to a degree, but I live in LA where we have seen foolish ideas like road diets, expanding bike lanes by removing lanes for cars, deliberately requiring new construction to have inadequate parking spaces and spending billions on a high speed rail project that would do nothing to…

Outside of NY, Chicago, and...that’s pretty much it in the US, public transportation is pretty much utter shit everywhere else. That’s why cars are everywhere here.

If you want people to abandon private automobiles willingly, invest in GOOD public transportation. There can not be strikes to interrupt service. It can not rain underground. Crime on the bus or subway needs to have zero tolerance. Otherwise, the government will undermine public confidence in the service and…

Marginal rates are not relevant. What matters is the effective rate or what people actually pay. That number has not changed very much over time for various reasons.

Pretty sure that’s the album cover for an early aughts punk band called the New Left Urbanists that never quite got off the ground.

Aren’t you supposed to LIKE cars on this site?

I mean, if we’re talking about what cars aged the most gracefully, I still maintain that the RX-7 FD could have been sold with the same body today that it had all through the 1990s (and if pop-up headlights were still legal, damn the regulators).

Current asking price is $134,998, or the cost of a modest house in some areas.

I’m highly biased, but I’ll take my 15 year old Viper for that price with the 1 in front removed. Good looks, V10 power (and torque), and only comes in a stick, all in a price an average person could actually buy one day and not just dream about. Admittedly you are going to give up something in comfort, but if it’s…

(Ok, just because this scene popped into my head just now ...)

Fun fact... wait for it... I used to be a hand model and that’s my hand in Zoolander

This is silly. We don’t need to use the roads for this, just the right of way. It’s land that’s already public and paid for. Most of the time people don’t use the shoulders of the road. In areas where this is most feasible, like desert areas and places with abundant sunshine, embed photovoltaics in the shoulder. …

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I completely agree with you, but, most that I talk to about SUVs say they like the high driving position.  So, it’s become an arms race of who can be taller. 

Also dont forget, a base model Kia now gets adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist, and blind spot monitoring, but MB, Lexus, and BMW charge you thousands for it.

Oh man. Its Altezza tail lights all over again. You are going to see Chevy S10, Daewoo Lanos, Mazda 3, and Toyota Corollas with LEDs behind the grill and you will see kits for sale at Autozone. 

The reason for this is because the “distronic radar” sits directly behind the star and generates errors if a thick illuminated star is used.

im 48. I like seeing Italian exotics which are supposed to be fun have fun elements to them. I think its cool. I wouldnt do that to a Rolls but on a lambo or ferrari, sure, why not?

It’s like an Amazon one-star product rating, but from the factory.

I think the funniest part of the Mercedes Illuminated star is that you can only get it if you cheap out on options that really matter, like adaptive cruise and automatic emergency braking. You are literally making your MB shittier from the factory for the sake of adding the “look at me” emblem.