This is true, but modern track laying machines can revitalize rail lines in relatively brief periods of time; the process in the U.S. is several decades behind modern standards, and part of why rail looks so disproportionately expensive here. In Korea’s case, however, the problems are more immediately political.

Partake in it with a friend, and you’ll be surprised just how rewarding and developmental an experience it can be.

Forget EVs. Most people don’t even know how hybrids work.—i.e., that most offer ~50% fuel economy improvements and that they don’t need to be/can’t be plugged in. Nevermind plug-ins, and people think either Tesla (i.e., expensive) or have golf carts in mind when they think of EVs. Consumer education on cars—you know,…

I’m hoping and praying that they actually finish the PRR T1 being worked on. Far and away my favorite, most ominous-looking train, a duplex, (possibly apocryphally) capable of 140mph. Just so much awesome.

The automakers should be advocating for higher gas taxes, too. They can’t be voted out of office.

Apparently, the names “eG80 and eGV80" have been trademarked, and there’s been a plugged-in G80 spotted in camo around Korea, so we can at least anticipate a plug-in hybrid, if not a full-on EV, very soon.

Glad that wasn’t just me. I saw someone else call the outside of it green, and I was starting to worry about my vision.

German shooting brake with a mid-rear V2, rear wheel drive, fun to drive, ALSO dangerous handling.

I mean, it doesn’t sound like me, but it sounds like a good time.

Absolutely agreed! No need for these massive, space-hogging yards of 150 cars all in silver, black, or white, none of which is exactly what you want. I think it’s a rare thing that people go to a dealership and need a car NOW; why not have dealers help consumers pick which colors/options they want and then order the…

Throwing a fit? I’m sorry, I thought I was mostly being funny; I guess I’ve got a crappy sense of humor. I’m a huge proponent of the idea that words only mean what we say they do—language is definitively arbitrary—but they must mean something, or else why do we use them? When something is genuinely ugly or…

It’s not pedantry. You were trying to be glib and diminishing, and were hypocritical instead. We all make mistakes, man.

So it’s displeasing, but not so displeasing that it isn’t forgettable. Are you sure you remember what it looks like?

Nope, you can’t have it both ways. If it’s boring, that means it evokes no reaction. If it’s ugly, well, that’s a reaction. Personally, I’m not crazy about the front--it just seems way too big for the car--and the DLO-fail rear quarter panel wrankles, but you can’t call the thing, as a whole, boring.

There’ve been spy photos of what appears to be a plug-in hybrid floating around the internet; I’d anticipate some kind of electrical system being added to this and other cars, especially as H/K already have a 48V hybrid system in use on their cars, too.

My only problem with the whole class language thing is that it treats wealthy people as if they are different from the working class. If they are different, maybe they are entitled to hoard resources like they do? Of course, no, in fact, they are the same, just lucky by birth or other circumstance, and they don’t…

...Well, at least we don’t have to be the ones calling you what you are. And I’ve got no problems with big people, if being big makes them happy, but if it doesn’t, do something about it; don’t skirt the problem and make us all worse off in the process.

Because there’s no reason to buy a vehicle for 1% of your needs that you’re going to be using 100% of the time, unless you want it. As a sportbike rider even into his 60's, my dad does not like a big car. We made it work because it makes sense to do so, because it works well for every other time.

...Um, technically, yes it does. It’s called making do, and not crying about being temporarily inconvenienced. 

My parents are from the different ends of upstate, but I’m a New Englander, which I’m sure will do loads to change your assessment.

Weird. My 6'5.5" self, my 6' father, and my 6'2, 6'5, and 5'11 brothers all crammed in a ‘12 Mazda 3 hatchback for a 9-hour drive to Buffalo years ago.