I’m aware that right now, when an essentially-avowed KKK supporter is president (legally speaking, anyway), would be an especially bad time to restrict free speech. It’s just a shame that freedom from violence should be a political issue. Arguably, it always has been, but I don’t see why it always need be, and now…

Honestly, I do understand this line of reasoning. However, defending one class of persons’ right to free speech and assembly when another class has far more basic rights—e.g., the right to freedom from violence and coercion—which are frequently violated seems like putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable, if you…

Ok, so let’s assume that you’re right—and frankly, I don’t necessarily disagree with the idea that violating rights is violence. What, then, should a disempowered group—in this case, people of color, LGBT people, women, the poor, or religious minorities—do when the group in power—in this case, fairly wealthy, white,…

Granting it’s been my only car ever, I’ve had a ‘06 Forester since ‘14, purchased with 118k on the odo. I haven’t had any major issues; had to replace a catalytic converter recently, but at least in terms of the engine itself, there hasn’t been any trouble. Granting that I’m pretty sure it was previously owned by an…

By this logic, could I conceivably be holding a bottle of wine outside the window, and it would be ok?

Don’t remember using the word “conspiracy” anywhere, nor did I mean to imply it. Just mentioning the styling rut that the automotive design world seems to be in. Nothing’s changed much for either brand for years at this point, and a lot of marques use such similar motifs that we have to discuss who started using…

Finally, someone saying that someone ELSE copied the Koreans, and not the other way around. Not that I necessarily consider it copying, but it is funny that Audi’s new design language is in fact Hyundai’s slightly not-new design language.

No, but it’ll provide a pretty entertaining way of making sure you don’t get to the stage of your life where dementia could be a problem. Just add water—snow, rain, slush are all fine. Pick your accident cause, and smile as you careen into a tree at 7000RPM and 70MPH.

Well, they are selling in the same markets to the same consumers, so why should they all be so wildly different, especially when different is usually expensive and often a failure? They have a few unique models: there’s no Hyundai equivalent to the Soul, no Kia equivalent to the Veloster or the Genesis Coupe.

Hyundai only owns about a third of Kia. They’re basically cooperative enterprises at this point.

I imagine that his superpower involves playing ice hockey in a really friendly way with the villain, while politely giving him lots free maple syrup so as to give him diabetes. I mean, anything harsher than that would just be un-Canadian, eh?

Indigo—those colors you named are too light (lilac and lavender) or too red (fuchsia). That interior is nearly blue, and there are far too few blue interiors these days; bless Hyundai for giving us some on the cheap.

Did the end of WWII and the MAD of the Cold War not show us that we can’t keep fighting each other with evermore advanced weapons? When you’ve got something strong enough that it can end tens of thousands of lives without even hitting its intended target, how can you argue that what’s needed is more offensive…

I can’t be the only one to think that this is actually not a good design; the proportions are terrible. It’s a shame, because the idea is fantastic, and so few things are genuinely bespoke anymore—and also not SUV caricatures of luxury—that for the execution to be so poor is a real shame. Also, its butt is smiling at…

I dunno. My ‘06 Forester, when the cruise control wasn’t working, would often find itself doing 90-ish on trips down to Boston without really meaning to. Lazy foot wants to be flat to the floor, maybe.

Do they slow down to genuinely about 4 miles per hour for even the most modest turn? Do they not start their turn signal until they’ve already started turning? Do they not let you into their lane when you’re holding up traffic behind because...I don’t know, a reason? Do they pass you when you’re already doing 75 (in…

Post-refresh Genesis Coupe 3.8 is pretty damn awesome. Camaro’s V6 is nice, too.

Honestly? Hyundai.

World’s 4th or 5th biggest automotive company, been producing automobiles for many decades, sitting on piles of cash amounting to many billions of dollars, and yet there seems to be no real ambition in the company to do more than make appliances.

I don’t want to start a whole thing, but even though I know I risk it, I worked a double last night and I don’t care.

Think about what bin Laden did that made him so deplorable: he organized the torture deaths of many, many people around the world. If death and killing are what’s bad, then why is our killing him a good…

Question, though: does the fact that the Lexus puts on airs about being something good not, paradoxically, make it more repugnant? Honesty is, after all, an admirable quality.