Ah, but you see, those things haven’t actually changed that much from how they were before—assuming “before” means within the last two centuries. People might’ve had to sew bolts of fabric together according to different patterns to make their own clothes; they might’ve had to take their shoes to the cobbler to have…

The two time periods are: pre- and post-automobile. In those two time periods, walking is to walking as horses are to automobiles. One is the slower mode of transit independent of any external means of assistance. The other is faster, but requires external means of assistance, and that means requires its own care,…

I know, I know, analogies are hard. Don’t worry, bud; you’ll get there someday!

Right! We are not reflective of the broader car-buying populace.

Unless someone’s erected barricades to your direction of travel, no one’s going to prevent you from going anywhere you want to (quite the contrary; putting everything too far away to walk or bike to is a prohibition against travel for the poor). However, no one is obligated to make it easier for you to go anywhere you…

The historical analogue to cars is carriages, but ultimately horses. How many people do you know who own cars who feel passionately enough about them to take care of them the way you have to take care of a horse if you don’t want it to die? Personally, I know none. I got my first car magazine when I was 7 years old,…

Yes; Paris is known for its plethora of Walmarts, McDonalds, and Starbucks.

OP’s never heard of induced demand.

I know this is a car that’s just...not for me, but can someone explain the appeal? Like Wrangler drivers, 90% won’t tow or take this off-roading. It’s otherwise just a box, and not a space or fuel efficient one, and being truck-based, it’s not going to be especially comfortable or fun to drive. I’m as willing as…

So disappointed to hear of such obviously discriminatory practices occuring in what should be a unifying experience. I can only hope that the BA Test Kitchen can be made into what we all thought it was: a place for people from anywhere—of any color or background—to come and share their cooking experiences.

....I mean, if you were just going to admit you were guessing at things in the first place, and could easily be wrong, you ought to have just saved us both the time. Ad hominems are a tacky way to do it. There’s nothing at all wrong with being wrong, only in denying it in the face of all evidence. Don’t let me keep…

....It’s not my opinion that you don’t know the thoughts of everyone who’s bought a BMW, Mercedes-Benz, or Audi in the past decade. Unless you do, in which case I envy either the amount of time you must have on your hands to talk to millions of people, or the telepathy you must have to know all their thoughts without…

Seems like someone hasn’t heard that old rib about the plural of anecdote not being data.... I don’t doubt all the relevant parties to this question (the Germans, Hyundai/Genesis, Toyota/Lexus, etc.) have done these studies, but I do expect they are for internal use, and not something you have personal access to.…

Because if your point was that German luxury shoppers aren’t cross-shoping Genesis, you almost certainly don’t know that beyond pure speculation and expectation, and if your point was muh Hyundai bad, well...I don’t need to say more, do I?

Just because it’s natural to value your own life above others’, doesn’t mean it’s right. We valorize people who are willing to put at risk or sacrifice their own lives for the sake of others, and then are willing to run right over the rights of others to not have their lives put at risk by a climate-changing world,…

Hey, it’s not my fault so many of my fellow Americans are f***ing Cro-Magnons who associate size with power and power with worth.

So why not elucidate your meaning, then? 

Would definitely be better looking if the grille was ~30% smaller.

....A.) Gridlock is not a sign of affluence. Lots of megacities in the poorer parts of the world are absolutely full to bursting with cars. B.) To the extent there is gridlock in Seoul, it’s because a lot of Korean urban planners are still of the modernist urban planning mindset (everything built around cars) and…

....Okay, but then how many $60K Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, Chevrolets, and Fords do you think they’d sell? (Speciality models and ridiculous pickups excluded.) If your implication is that no luxury brand that didn’t start out as one is going to be successful, well...Jaguar and Maserati and a dozens of defunct high-pric…