What a roundabout way of advocating for more traffic circles!

I’m okay with our electric car future as long as they sound like the VW ID-R. Or LMP1 hybrd cars on boost/regenerative braking.

When I saw these I immediately thought, “That looks like Terry Richardson’s work.”

As a motorcycle rider familiar with riding on the highway, I’m not sure this is even remotely true. My experience is that nothing kicks up rocks as bad as haul trucks (asphalt trucks, dump trucks, concrete mixer trucks, etc.), and semi trucks/trailers come in right after that. Waaaay down below them is pickup trucks,…

It sounds to me more like you’re describing a Hyundai - any Hyundai - rather than the Prizm.

Tell me about it... repairs and maintenance alone would have paid most of an SE Alltrack with MT by now. And then there’s the two 3 month periods where it was in the shop within the last two years!

If I had known they existed when I bought my current money pit - I mean MT 535xi wagon - two years ago, I would have!

There’s someone in Detroit Region SCCA who rallycrosses a lowered, red turbo’d RAV4! It’s stupid fast.

Does it also come in Manana and Fizzbitch? What about Shocklate and Rawberry?

I also want to know how they cleaned themselves after doing their business, especially when it was messy.

This idea is invalid because all cars should be targa hatchbacks.

Eh, it’s India.  I wouldn’t expect anything less.

You missed the point. Backup power systems are of course in place.

And this is why you always put the wheels or another backup method of restraint below the car in addition to using jack stands, with the hydraulic jack in place, locked on, with slight clearance to light pressure on the jack point or the side of the car you’re working on.

I can’t even imagine how bad it would be having open heart surgery or the like when a quake strikes. I wonder if the robotic surgery systems have built in safeties to address this?

‘N’o!

FWIW you can still (for now) get the VW Golf Sportwagen and Alltrack with a manual.

Jason,

Andrew, did you use a coffee mug to trace those circles?

My hot take is that tint is always ugly and annoying. ALWAYS.