To be fair, the salesperson I dealt with last year was excellent. He knew enough about the vehicle I wanted to be modestly helpful and did all the legwork for me to find the right car, within budget.

I’m with your niece on this one. it’s all fine once your actually inside =)

Just thought I’d throw this out there, confirming yet again what we know already. Cars (and people!) are getting bigger.

I don’t think Honda was trying to cater to pretentious audiophiles when they created this car.

If you’re going to take a risk by offering a manual in 2021, you better offer it in colors you know Americans will gobble up without issue.

It’s a $22k car... you really think any of your listed brands would come in it?  Get a bit more realistic on what to expect for your money.  Bose is perfectly fine here.

The central tunnel trim differs between the manual and automatic. They probably didn’t want to subdivide the production of the manual one into different colors, since the manual format is already a low percentage as of itself. And the color of the trim dictates the color scheme of the rest of the interior. So generic,…

The manual transmission doesn’t interface well with red paint /s

opting for the manual locks you into a white, gray, or black color scheme

The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale - far and away the most achingly beautiful car ever made

Total viewership for Formula 1 in 2020 was 1.5 billion viewers. That’s from your own link.

One 10 second Google later....

That was, as they say, “some years ago”.

I too wanted to be an automotive engineer and ended up with a history major. Welcome, friend. I hope we get a lot of stories about weird dead-end race cars.

Sounds like they are doing the competitive events once they reach the cities.

You are liberated from the grays! Use your powers for good and have fun! :)

Noted on both counts. If this comment gets more than 5 likes, I’ll drop my car list.

I have loved the F1 content and conversations that Elizabeth posted so if we could keep that up, it’d be awesome!

Welcome from the folks in the grays. Good to see an enthusiast get the position. (-:

Everyone give a warm welcome to Ryan! I've known him for ages and can vouch for him — he is a legitimately Good Dude. I also know that he's too humble to mention that he's co-host and producer of the Motorsport101 podcast, which is delightful and which you should all check out. It's an absolute pleasure to have him…