Ooooh. That will be my next car after my rich uncle dies.

Even August is a terrible time to start sales of a new motorcycle model in the U.S. Anyone who buys one with a loan or lease (if applicable) will not want to have such a short riding time before winter sets in (other than in the most southern states) and payments continue. This bike is not going to be an all-weather…

Just watch some 1%er get shocked by this revolting news, and go all coulomb...ine on us.

The big (for me) question: is it a hatchback (fastback if you prefer)? 

I know someone who is a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy: unnecessary surgeries, and lot of other dreck. It is a confounding disease, and it left scars—literal and figurative—on the person I know.

For a fleeting moment, I was relieved that this article is not about U.S. health care.

How sad. :-(

If they offered it as a hatchback....I still couldn’t afford it. But it’s what I would want if I could. 

Are you like the author? Do you drive your car even when you know something is breaking that is a safety issue? If so, then you do so. If not, then his blog post is not the reason to stay away from motorcycles.

That’s overstated. I have logged literally over 100,000 miles in the rain. Ride responsibly, keep your motorcycle in proper running condition including tires with plenty of tread, wear proper protective gear including raingear, and you can ride in the rain. 

“You’ll probably take it for service soon?”

It’s complicated when family is involved. A cousin of mine is a retired cop. I want to think that he was one of the good ones, and he probably was. He once told me that he went into law enforcement because he viewed it as an alternative form of ministry, to do good works in the community.

An old-fashioned quote, since formatting tools still aren’t working (Kinja code):

Kinja editing. 

For the paycheck.

Oh, but she’s not racist. She’ll even tell you so. She’s just not politically correct.

ITMFA. Then arrest him, try him, convict him (I hope), and jail him.

Night of the Living Dead is the first and last zombie movie to interest me.

The issue is not so much that the elevated rights-of-way were removed. It is that they were removed without first being replaced by subways. *That* is the problem. 

Neither you nor the owner mentions what the Dieselgate* status is of the car. Did it receive the recall treatment? If not, is it still licensable in all 50 states?