Sound to me like someone needs to move closer to work. Since when did it become the norm to spend "hours upon hours" commuting? I think my 12 mile commute is a bit much, although many might call me a lucky duck.

Yes, it would. Any number of people would be more than happy to sell you their mistakes...er...SUVs.

Promoted for the first paragraph, but you're forgetting that most people DO NOT NEED more car to run to the grocery store, to work, and the occasional trip to Lowe's for half a dozen bags of pine bark, which fit just fine in the trunk of my Honda Civic, which is a pretty damned fine compact sedan, by the way.

In short, know what you want, and know what you're willing to pay (but don't tell anybody). It's how men go shopping for nearly everything else. When it comes to cars, who keeps reminding us of this? Women! My wife's ideal car is a base '09 Corolla with old-school window cranks. I gotta agree with her on that. …

Or you could brown-bag it, fatass. Who goes to Wendy's anymore?

FWIW, auto trans gets more or less the same mileage as a manual nowadays, especially the ones with five or six gears. My 1.8 liter Honda Civic cruises 60 MPH at about 1800 RPM and breaks 40 MPG highway.

Bless you, sir! Those Aero Snap windows were driving me batty!

What you and OP said. I mean, it's not like he was given some kind of state funeral and all that. Wash him up, wrap him in a sheet, and dump him in the ocean. It seems kind of "Sopranos" to me, and that's the way I want to remember the bastard.

Could it be that it looks like one from the street? I think the point was, he was hiding pretty much in plain sight, and Pakistan was not much help to us at all.

I was kind of wondering whether hard drives blend.

I sort of like this one. It looks more like the old Beetle, especially from the side, only stretched a bit. I especially like the wheels.

Condescending? Lighten up, Francis. Seriously. I was just saying that this deal has been around for awhile. You sacrifice a LOT, but you get that new-car smell. I suppose if I ran a pizza delivery joint, I'd buy two or three for my drivers to not deliver pizza to certain neighborhoods. But for myself to drive? …

Yep, that fifth gear on my automatic slushbox makes all the difference. My wife drives a Corolla (4 speed AT), and she wonders why my car is so much smoother and quieter and all that. I tell her that fifth gear means a lot. I need to be going at least 65 to get the engine over 2000 RPM.

But CNN is still making a really big huge deal about this like they were Fox News or something. So don't blame the Gawker. Seriously, though, the standard was five miles apart. They were three miles apart. Not exactly "dangerously close." More like tailgating a teeny bit, then correcting for it as soon as you…

Actually, the base model lists for that. With no AC, not even as an option, no radio, and a five-speed. Yeah, it's a car. Just. No fun, but it'll get you from A to B.

'10 Honda Civic sedan - 41 no-shit MPG at 70-ish MPH. With the A/C on.

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The car worked on 37 HP because it had tall, skinny tires that didn't require power steering, a large steering wheel that make doing without power steering a little easier for those with scant upper body strength, and a body that barely weighed 800 kg. Two strong men could conceivably lift one and turn it sideways in…

Promoted for being funny. Exactly 12 and a half cents' worth of funny.

Yeah, but we can't all be truck drivers or Wal-Mart sales associates. If we're doing everything with the goods we buy except actually making them, you're cutting a lot of hard-working people who aren't quite talented enough to be engineers out of the labor market.