We’re becoming spoiled for choice in this segment. Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, Acura, Infiniti, Jaguar, Volvo, Maserati, Cadillac, and soon Genesis. Some only kind of compete, but all at least kinda do. Should be interesting.

The real hypocrisy is a bunch of politicians flying more-or-less private jets around the world to meet in person when everything they're supposedly doing could be done much more efficiently via telepresence.

Do my eyes deceive me, or does this wagon also have the mythical rear-facing third-row? 7-passenger seating capacity in something that is inarguably a car? A car which runs and costs only $1200? NP.

I honestly don't think any other car sounds better. I'd die just to have one drive by me at part-throttle.

I remember seeing a Crayola-orange Rio by the waterpark in Hangang Park when I was there. In truth, all of the colorful cars I saw were pretty bright—orange, yellow, pink, neon green. Not that there were a lot of them.

Two things: first of all, the infamous Rodius was actually designed by a British guy (although yes, you'd hope they'd have the sense to bin the design irrespective of anything else), and second, it's been redesigned.

Indeed, I do.

In a perfect world, I’d like to imagine that the wealth that often comes with being a business person would afford you the chance to drive whatever the hell you wanted (if you care at all).

If I had to guess why it’s so bland—the totally dispassionate upper management of Hyundai/Kia aside—I’d say it’s probably because Korea’s rich people, like the vast majority of rich people everywhere, are very boring, and want at best what everyone else has, but in absence of that, they want what at least some other…

I think the answer to that question is pretty obvious, and has been hinted at by others. It’s the whole Clarke’s third law thing. Figuring out precisely what technology we’re going to have to make a certain action possible billions of years from now would be like a caveman imagining and explaining, in modern…

Such a breakthrough that, as Party-vi said, it will carry fewer people, and also cruise at lower speeds.

Unless it's substantially more efficient and less-expensive per passenger, I don't know what makes this such a big deal.

...Is seaux fauncay not the point of luxury? I mean, the "1st Edition" Bentley Bentayga comes with a Breitling watch for crap's sake. Luxury has always been ~50% about, "look how big and shiny my penis is", and by that standard, flying a bunch of automobile bodies across the ocean on one of the best passenger planes…

Agreed, but hell, where even is the liftback? The trunk lid on this is even more comically short than on the sedan. Gonna be doin' squats just to put stuff in there.

I’m only still living at home because, well, it makes sense. I pay my mother $500 a month in rent to sleep in a room that’d otherwise be unused, which helps justify her still having as big a house as she does. I may eat about 1/3 of my meals at home and have my utilities paid, but in exchange, I cook, I clean, I do…

Either?

Then why are you wasting your time and energy defending the willfully-lowbrow aspects of the South?

Well, maybe if we Yanks weren’t...I don’t know...better in basically every quantifiable way, or probably more to the point, if y’all didn’t make such a big fuss about how “unique” and “special” your culture is, it wouldn’t be so prone to stereotyping and exaggeration?

Thanks, man; I hate getting idioms wrong. Makes me look like a real idiom.

...Where’s that thing that said most BMW drivers didn’t know that their vehicles were RWD?

Well, I don’t think “don’t sell more than 1,000 globally” is going to appeal to most automobile manufacturers as a way to skirt emissions requirements.