There was a time when I would cheerfully shit on the Kia Soul. Then I was t-boned by a lady driving an uninsured G-Wagon who blew through a stop sign while talking on her phone. My Saab survived the encounter, but the incident did nothing to improve the historic Swedish-German enmity.

It makes me irrationally happy that you get to see the car that you loved owning for so long just by looking down the street.

They don’t have to. They are forced to because every other car is a giant SUV.

Why do big ass SUVs always have to park next to my xB when I park far enough back to leave a spot on each side?

They’re the only ones that fit. The person driving the Suburban has a door as long as a billiards table and so parks very close to the right edge of the space so as not to ding the car to their left. Meaning the only thing that can fit to the right is something small. I’ve seen this happen so many times sitting in…

“I feel like the Soul is one of the few remaining cars of a class of classless economy cars that once existed — Volkswagen Beetles, BMC Minis, Citroën 2CVs, Renault 4s, and so on — that were inexpensive but could be driven by anyone, rich or poor, famous or anonymous, equally.”

Bad take is a bad take.

Kia Souls are fucking great and if Americans weren’t insecure to the point of frantically committing suicide via autoerotic asphyxiation while furiously sobbing against the backdrop of “Proud To Be An American” played on endless repeat, they would be half the cars on the road. I’m prepared to die on this hill, fucking…

I got the original in 2009. We put 120k on it in ten years. Perhaps 10k of that were forest service roads. It was a beast. We popped a stove, dishwasher, and water heater in it on different occasions no prob. We traded it in because it was time, nothing broken ever, but it was time.

I like Torch’s maxed-out Soul, but if you instead put a sliding rear door it’d make a handsome successor to the Mazda5!

I cross-shopped a 2020 V60 lease vs. 2016 E350 purchase. The V60 is a beautiful car, but the Mercedes made more sense financially.

I just finished cross shopping Volvo and Mercedes, needed a used wagon to replace my beloved Forester XT. In the end went with the E350 because it’s in the good part of its depreciation curve. But I did the math on stretching to a V90. 

I know it’s a personal preference but I think you picked the better looking car, going with the Volvo over the Merc. 

For a supposed echo chamber, I’m just astonished these legislators don’t hear the shit that comes out of their own mouths.

I would like to point out this mistake:

As the owner of a v90 cc this will suck. At the time I purchased I wanted an e63s wagon but with the need to also purchase my wife a vehicle we went by Volvo just to look. Ended up buying her a xc90 fully loaded (she totaled it “Volvo saved my life style” she and my son were fine) and I also bought a fully loaded v90…

Philip Roth took the wrong date, but his idea sticked: there is a plot against (democracy in) America after all. And, just like in his novel, it was the Republicans torpedoing democracy from within.

“If you’re intentionally cause harm this bill won’t cover you, that’s not what we’re trying to do here,” Representative William Lamberth said in a recent hearing on the bill.

Of course the "right" would probably think this is a free pass to cruise on over to that annoying little protest in his/her town and hit the gas, then claim they were scared of said crowds. Also...is that a Camry with a freaking LANDAU top.  Love those.

As a native Tennessean, this makes me so fucking ashamed. Why is it that my home state also has to go along with blatent, racist bullshit? It makes me ashamed to tell people I’m from there.