I’ve never lost a key either. That doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

They are not superior in terms of complexity. I don’t care if it does always work, I don’t like having anything that adds complexity for no good reason.

I bought an 86 instead of a BRZ almost entirely because it has a real key.

I agree with that though.  I haven’t used my AC for years.  (Admittedly I live in Ohio. It rarely gets over ~85 here).

Completely different cars on completely different platforms.

Having a driveway or garage is a requirement for sure, but you really don’t need much else, as long as you avoid rust and don’t care about cosmetics.

A lot of the time you don’t know what’s broken until you start driving the car regularly.  (Or the alternative, it works fine if you drive it every day but starts misbehaving if you only drive it once a week).

With three electric motors, two turbos, and completely proprietary software trying to make all of it work together without breaking, it definitely is worse for reliability. There’s a legitimate concern that it would’ve been faster around a track without all the weight of electric drive as well.

I can at least second lack of parallel parking.  I live in a relatively large city (Columbus Ohio) and haven’t parallel parked since my driving test.

I actually kinda like the front end. Go figure.

That’s also my biggest complaint with the styling (before any accessories). It needs a single-piece door panel that widens to reach the back of the car. That taped-on scoop looks terrible, and you can’t just remove it or the door won’t actually be flush with the body.

Cheaper solution: Don’t parallel park.

The black car is the one at fault, and also the one that drove off without stopping.

I pay $850 (including taxes/insurance) on a 15 year mortgage on a 120k house. I guess a higher purchase price drives up the cost more than I’d expect.  Probably because even on a 15 year loan you’re already paying about 30% of the home value in interest.

If you think 1 in 5,000 is significant odds, you should play the lottery more often.

Ehh, double ‘basically zero’ is still ‘basically zero’, though.

I actually picked $50k because that’s approximately what I was making a few years ago, and it happens to be the national average. It left me with about $1k a month for the car budget. The main places your numbers are off are cost of a home, utilities, and food, all are about double what they should be for just one…

There’s a difference between being financially irresponsible and being single.

I think the answer to this problem is ‘stay single, and don’t live in CA or NY’.

Currently, yes, that’s true, but it wasn’t always true, particularly in foreign countries.