And light bars.  Screw people who drive around with light bars on.

Did you read the article? or did you immediately forget the other critiques of mass truck ownership? Like how they avoid certain charges levied upon the inefficient cars you’re comparing it to. Or perhaps the fact they kill more people a year directly through hitting pedestrians and smaller vehicles? Did you also…

If your truck never left your property to utilize a shared space with the public, then people would likely have very little concern about it. It’s the whole shared space thing that turns it into a discussion.

You don’t agree that on the whole trucks get worse gas mileage, handle worse than sedans, do more damage in accidents, and cause more wear and tear on infrastructure due to their greater curb weights?

We should probably just scrap the light truck qualification or make it a lot more stringent. I don’t really see why a jeep wrangler needs special treatment when it comes to compliance.

For every contractors F150 there’s 100 (1000?) small SUVs getting 30% worse mileage doing a wagon’s job. 

Trucks could be way more…

Hah, are you wrong. Drive a Miata. And hear all the chick car jokes? Or a Fiat 500, and have people sneer that you are in a tiny cute car, not one appropriate for you? And have you not heard motorcyclist called organ donors, on a crotch rocket, and yet you say nobody calls out motorcycles? And all those non-tree…

I’ve always found it weird that people concern themselves with what other people are buying.

These same questions never get asked of people with sports cars or people with motorcycles.

I just wish appropriately aimed headlights were a thing.

But if you took the five minutes to read the article you would recognize that your decisions have an impact on others beside yourself. A fundamental (and rapidly dying) component of a functioning society is recognizing that pursuit of personal liberty does not include the right to impact everyone else’s to their…

It pains me to admit, its true. I love my SAAB wagon, but its not as painless getting kids in and out as my wife’s Pilot. I’m tall so its me bending over more with the car. that being said, I’m holding on to the car for dear life because I enjoy the driving experience more. But I totally get why CUVs are popular. I…

I was being more convinced this may be a car for me with every paragraph.

Others - Power to weight ratio, driving pleasure.

The reality is you’re not sacrificing anything for daily driving, really. It’s not hard to get into or out if with kids, it’s actually easier to load stuff into, there’s plenty of room, and it looks better. Did everone really decide getting into and out of non-SUVs is hard? I’m genuinely asking.

This is the type of car (like the Avalon for Toyota) where VW loyalists will want something nice but don’t want (or care) about the luxury badge.

yeah, it’s a lot of money, I agree.

Counterpoint: $46k is way too much for a VW with 268hp. 

Broadly speaking, something like a generation plant should be for 500 year events and smaller things like a single towns station for 100 year at minimum. There should be safety factors built into that to make it technically even safer. While that sounds nice and I understand not wanting to plan beyond historical limits…

10 years ago, El Paso decided to significantly improve the robustness of their grid and power generation in response to a cold snap that winter. They have mostly been unscathed but have seen the same weather this past week. Take from that what you will.

Don’t forget- there was a small group of people that got enormously wealthy off this model- while the average person probably saved a couple dollars a year. These people will walk away scot-free.  They should lose all the money they’ve made in the past 10 years during the time they should have made improvements.