Here in Canada it’s the Nissan Micra. Tiny, yes, but a competent and fun car for the size and price. 9988 canuckbucks for the base base 2019 model gets you absolutely NO frills besides the mandated rear-view camera (which is... kinda funny considering the car doesn’t get a bluetooth connection or power anything...). I…

Also my favourite, as far as unacceptable behaviour at the McDonalds counter goes: some boomer-raised trustfund-child housewife points to a McDonalds employee and tells her kids “see, this is why you should stay in school.” Excuse me, what? Back when I worked the underpaid high-stress retail job we were all…

It’s also doing numbers on the ecosystem and the ground water. I lived in Siberia for years and they would laugh if you told them you put salt on the road. The big roads get cleared quickly after snowfall; the backroads and streets just get left until spring. You don’t crash if you’re not a moron and drive for the…

I agree. I wish there were more well-made but SIMPLE cars. Every time I tried looking for lists of small cars to try out while I was car shopping for my first car this year, I’d only get lists made in the UK and Europe because they weren’t available here.

Fancy Kristen doesn’t need “premium”, she actually gets the real-deal premo, not this wanna-be crap masquerading as a valuable object.

Looks nice, seems like you’re sold on it already, so unless you’re actually willing to listen to someone with a very different opinion, you’re probably going to get it.

They look way bigger in real life. I walked past one the other day and the size of the wheel was pretty baffling in person. Not quite aftermarket tuner boy ridiculous, but really starting to edge that way.

I once saw a CLA with a light-up MB star AND one of those little stand-up hood ones that usually only come on the S-Class sedans (I’m guessing the owner added that one themselves? I can’t imagine Mercedes signing off on that car from the factory...) It was definitely one of those “So I heard you like Mercedes...”…

I technically lived with “ride-sharing” as my main option of transportation for about 15 years before getting my own car and there’s basically no way I would ever go back to not owning a car. Now, I don’t actually drive my car to work. Our public transit is decent and it’s $4 for transit instead of $13 for parking +…

My current (and only) car is a smart car. While I absolutely love it to bits, I do acknowledge that it has some, uh... flaws. I am hoping that I can keep the smart for a long time, but it’s possible that in the next few years, my partner will be getting his own car (whenever he gets tired of climbing into the…

And they are fantastic for workers who otherwise get shafted because some fat cat needed a third yacht for their second island.

I am not necessarily an expert on union law, but I am employed by a unionized institution and am part of a union.

Saudi Arabia will be hosting a number of high-profile car races and have reached out to the organizing body to ask them to find a way to add more female drivers (who usually do not get a lot of chances or even a shot at competing) on their tracks.

I read your comment and was like psh, someone was just having a good day and laughed too much. No way that’s actually funny.

There was a very interesting article a few years ago written by a woman about her experiences of shopping for groceries with food stamps while driving a Mercedes that really changed my mind on the whole “poor people with fancy items” look.

On the one hand, I imagine when ICE cars first came out, the relative household incomes of people who were buying cars probably sat pretty close to these.

So, the original creator behind the idea of a smart car wanted them to be electric, and he envisioned it to be a part of an infrastructure that operated on this principle. You use your tiny electric car to do 90-95% of your day-to-day business in the city. If you wanted to take a long trip on the weekend, or needed a…

I don’t get sick as a driver or as the front passenger so long as I’m looking out of the windows. If I have to look down and/or read something (as a passenger) I get sick REALLY fast.

What’s impractical about microcars? They’re everything your average city-dweller needs 90%.

It would probably honestly have to be a game she enjoys enough to deal with how stressful it is to learn to control your character.