A little surprising that they couldn’t have done more with the driver’s side carpet/floormat given out meticulously clear absolutely everything else is on that car.

Marky effing Mark as Sully? What the fuck?!?!

It would have had to be at least pre-’98 as I remember changing the combination on my Explorer.

Wow, the guy responsible for AC3 criticizing others for having a shitty story? 

He’s started strong. Looking forward to reading his stuff if this is what he brings to the table.  Welcome Lawrence!

Wh9 the hell is Lawrence Hodge?

So are pickup trucks these days, but that doesn’t stop a shitload of people buying them.

That was the point.  For carrots is wasn’t so much to fool people into eating more of them it was to try to throw the Nazis off the trail that they had developed radar.

Yeah but given the number of people I have seen rail against minivans when they are the best vehicle for the job I’m sure there are still some out there that would try to do something else. “I can just anchor a wheelchair in the bed of mah pickup, I don’t need no wussy minivan”

Not quite the same propaganda machine as for carrots

Congrats on Just Buying the Fucking Minivan. I am glad that you and your wife are in a position to be able to afford to get the vehicle your family needs.  Hope you get many, many good years out of it.

The issue isn’t so much how close the AV came to hitting any of the vehicles it is that the AV is accelerating while there is clearly an obstacle in front of it. 

Fair enough, and that makes it a slightly better test. That still doesn’t simulate actual human behavior though where we are constantly in motion, shifting positions, looking around, turning pages, picking things up, talking, having people move around the cabin, etc. It also doesn’t accurately mimic the receiving end…

It doesn’t discredit the DoD study, but that study was a test of the environs, not the impact on actual passengers. All that study did was to test in a controlled environment what could potentially happen in a plane. It looks like they used a static mannequin in a fixed position simulating breathing and coughing and…

I’ve told pieces of this in the past but here is how the best dealer experience I have ever had went. I had already done a test drive prior to this which is the only other real value that was added to the whole transaction.

A quick search shows you can get a Volvo V60 from as recently as 2018 for that price. Done.

yes

I bet with something like that I could figure our which green, or which blue I liked best but I would still have a challenge then deciding amongst the different colors.  It is great that someone is offering it as a problem though.

I’m pretty sure this is the setup for the next John Wick movie.

I don’t know how I would choose. Every time I look at that chart I see at least 3 different greens, 3 different blues, a purple, an orange, and a yellow that would be in very serious contention.