The optics look bad because of the implied cluelessness, but the point of environmentally friendly cars that are more efficient and with less emissions isn’t to outlaw performance cars or stop making them.

Your putting WAY to much emphasis on the gender. Every shop does something like this to the new guy.

Meanwhile in Detroit

dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity

They have a lot of extra budget now that DeMuro is gone.

Erin is a badass auto-journo from the Motor City who just landed a sweet gig on this fine website, managing its staff of upstanding highly functional people and Jason Torchinsky.

Everyone else has poured $30,000 in parts and tools to keep theirs running.

At first I was all “What? This is beautiful. Look at that wonderful little Civic. Such a great little car. What a great family.”

Then IT CAME.

There was no reason to arrest him and impound the car ...

Oh get off the high horse. He was the only car on an empty toll road in the middle of the night, as if at least 40% of the readers on this site wouldn’t have tried the same thing at least once in their lives. Sure, hellcat, I guess that makes it vaguely newsworthy, but idiot... really? The only thing that happened…

He’s an idiot but honestly he’s pretty much doing what it was designed to do. It’s like getting mad at someone who popped bubble wrap.

Matte sucks.

BREAKING: The average person doesn’t budget and keep adequate track of their finances.

NICE TRY STEF IM STILL GONNA ROLL COAL CUZ THIS SHIT AINT GON HAPPEN TO NO NASCAR RACE AND NEVER WILL CUZ AMERICA RULEZ CUZ JESUS LOVES US AND OUR GUNS AND OUR TRUCKS HELL YEAH.

Agreed, its totally doable. Things get tight over 6' though.

I don’t know how big children are where you live. I have no problem fitting two adults in the back of my S3.

We use them to install new chairlift towers. They can carry a big bucket of concrete for the pad to anchor to as well as the towers and the structure at the top of the tower. Very efficient way to get this done in very remote places without roads and at very high altitudes.

There’s nobody in the car.

I was going to guess mirrors.

NYC to LA, and I looked for fares a month in advance.