I’m always surprised to hear about Chinese-Japanese and Korean-Japanese families considering large swathes of Chinese and Korean people still hate the Japanese for WW2.

That’s what I thought. I get about 15.5 MPG City hauling the kids around, but my friends with the big Honda Odyssey were doing about 17. My feeling was that if I needed more space, I bought a carrier for the top of the car. We’ve used it twice. Mostly all the stuff we need ends up in the car, and I have gotten some…

The new Infiniti Kotex. Absorbs indefinitely.

+1 for Japanese girlfriend

It’s an evolution, it’ll be a crossunder..

You pull the tiger’s tail, you get the teeth. Physics doesn’t lie.

If we actually wanted to fix this we could - Roll cages, 5 point harnesses, helmets and HANS devices. But no effing way people would put up with that!

Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you for this spot-on comment. Give me (a safety conscious driver) value for my money. I’ll wear a 5-point safety harness if it’s safer and cheaper than an airbag. Then, you can sell me a car that’s either cheaper or has more relevant safety features.

I had a buddy who kept a diver’s knife driven into the passenger’s dash on a Datsun 610

It’s more like that evil Goofy disney cartoon from decades ago. I think it will get better when we get out of a high traffic congestion area of the country. He’s a better driver when it’s not like that.

What you really want is a pair of 120 watt white halogen flood lamps mounted at eye level pointing backwards. And, yes that would be illegal to turn them on, but standard equipment on most jacked up pickup trucks used as “auxiliary backup lights”.

I like to think there is a very special place in hell (full of spikes, Nickelback and stinkbugs) for people who tailgate in bad weather.

In that case, just give that person more space. You won’t go backwards, and you’re still moving. Removing the space for fear of someone moving into it defeats the purpose of the space.

They will make both versions. There will always be the traditional front engine corvette for the faithful, this mid engine one is the upmarket one to take on the supercars of the world. A FR platform can only defy physics so much, MR is the ultimate layout for all out performance.

Still could be a Cadillac. Or a glorious Geo revival no one saw coming.

I’m thinking it’s more a case of hydroplaning due to going really fucking fast in heavy rain, combined with that car’s big fat tires (oh, and probably also a guy behind the wheel who had no business being there, especially in that kind of weather/velocity. ...And possibly also Vodka, because you know, Russia...)

Has more votes than your comment, so is that the answer you are seeking?

I would like to formally thank our driving brethren in Russia for their widespread use of dashcams and their willingness to post said footage online.

Pretty sure it’s a pelican, dude.