My wife and I drove out to do the Octane Academy after she bought her FiST. They got to drive that and the Focus, and most of the people there had Focuses, but a bunch readily admitted the Fiesta was more fun, and the instructors all indicated they preferred it.

As they should.

That’s fantastic to know about. Thank you.

I hate that for something so expensive we have to choose between consoles for it. This has always been an issue with the wheels, and I understand there are all these licensing considerations, but it’s so anti-consumer and unfortunate. Some people are multi-console or shift between generations. Having something this…

I felt like my implication was rather clear, but I guess not. I want games that don’t rely on servers to stay playable. It’s been discussed up and down these threads. A lot of games with full single-player campaigns are still rendered unusable when the servers go down. It’s tiring.

Still a big difference between buying it a year late and requiring it be supported for a decade. I think the difference can be split.

This. The days of collecting classic games and being able to play them for decades to come is all but over. I’m not fully doom-and-gloom here. I love a ton of the advantages of modern gaming, and digital copies of games. But the idea that I could dust off an old console out of a closet and pop in some games for it is…

Account for every device you own is besides the point here. Having to tie your VR account to an unrelated social media account that can be very easily banned for very arbitrary things, locking you out of your entire device and all the games you owned, while also sharing your usage data with a company who’s known for…

I mean, this is a core reason I like Android Auto and CarPlay as concepts. I’d still prefer a much larger screen with an interface optimized for car usage, but outside of that, my phone is more than capable of being optimized to do all of this work. Let the car be really good at being a car, complete with dials and…

In fairness, those services you’re used to paying for can at least justify themselves by being software features that require a server infrastructure, security updates, and interaction with third-party services that rely on it maintaining up-to-date APIs and configurations. An argument can be made that it’s reasonable…

I *might* be able to accept an argument for subscriptions to features the item already has hardware for IF said features rely on advanced software that requires regular updates and interconnectivity with outside services. One reason more and more software has to be constantly updated is because everything is…

Met my son’s new teachers as he goes into high school in the fall, and his English teacher is heavily tattooed, and I was pretty psyched about seeing that. I think it’s both progress, and also a sign of the reality what generation is taking over. A lot of talented, passionate, qualified people are going to have…

I mean, when your company isn’t called DMC and you have no rights to that name, it’s a LITTLE hard to put that on your car legally.

Okay, but who’s going to guard the ear of corn?

500 is quirky and adorable which is why I excitedly picked it when I had to rent something. Such a huge disappointment. Everything from awful performance and handling to a sun visor that was so tiny it covered about two inches of the side window.

I’m sure the Abarth is better, but I rented a Fiat 500 and wanted to return it within a few miles. Awful, awful car. Spark was way better for its class.

Seriously, I was hoping someone would start this thread so I didn’t have to. In one of the photos I could *almost* make out the color of the car. The photography was atrocious. I’d LOVE a nice green on a car, but I have no clue from this article if it’s this. I have to take it at his word that the car was green.

Is the quote’s spelling of Guy Bennett-Pearce wrong and you didn’t add a [sic] or is your regular misspelling wrong?

Wait, we were? I don’t remember that. I remember a massive supply chain issue due to gigantic assholes hording things. And I remember being generally grateful that truckers were continuing to do their jobs. But I don’t remember thinking how heroic these truckers were for holding up major cities and streets and…

I have a Fiesta. I’d happily get something else in its size as my next car if it existed. Especially if I could get a better class version of it. Instead I’ll be forced to go larger, regardless of my interests.