“Good luck with whatever.”

Nope, check 4:30 in the video. Hatchback is thankfully sticking around, as are the manuals.

Been listening to the show while cooking dinner tonight and HOT DAMN the chicken tax saga is some good storytelling. Definitely learned something new, and will be coming back next week. 

$600? I’m out here wondering what flavor of insanity leads someone to drop $1,000/mo on a rental spec Nissan Altima.

You just have to refresh the page. It’s because your browser only loads the first slide’s image in slideshow mode. 

For my money, I want the finest piece of engineering that 1995 could offer.

Fair! The criticism of convertibles is valid when, from an engineering perspective, the vehicle is a conversion from a coupe/sedan chassis. At that point, there are inherent weight, handling, and rigidity compromises. Having recently become a Miata convert, I can attest that a ground-up convertible design drives like…

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Coloradan here as well. It absolutely blows my mind that our system isn’t used across the nation. Sip coffee, fill out a ballot, send it in/drop it off, get a text confirmation when it’s been accepted.

Jesus Christ Rob, that second paragraph needs its thesaurus and art history degree back. 

Especially because their compacts have a shitty reputation here (see also: PowerShift transmission). From their perspective, it’s probably better that Americans forget entirely about the Fiesta/Focus during the half-decade you’ll be unable to buy one off a Ford lot before they reintroduce an electric successor. 

Range anxiety is sometimes well-founded. Let’s say I bought a first-gen Leaf. Every year, my range degrades because Nissan thinks cooling is optional. Then every winter, another 40% gets sliced off that. So suddenly my 28-mile commute is a nail-biter.

Same. I got to this one right as I started thinking “man, wouldn’t it be cool if the art complemented the existing lines and features of the car?”

I lived out-of-state for two years. Upon my return to CO, I thought everyone had suddenly turned into an asshole. Got rid of my out-of-state plates and everything magically returned to normal. It’s insane. 

Ohhh man you’re out in God’s country.

Colorado probably deserves its spot at #3 on the worst list, but it’s sure as shit not because of Coloradans.

Well this 6,400lb monstrosity is 100% likely to murder me in my Miata when the driver texts their way through a red light, whereas the GT350R is only at about 80%.

That being said, another wave of COVID-19 infections and/or a major economic impact could derail any market improvements for both new and pre-owned vehicles. While things are likely to get better within the next few months, it’s hard to say for sure.

Having two cars (with the same total mileage as previously with one) was an eye-opener. The day my daily started sharing a garage with a Miata was the day I stopped trying to find chameleon-type cars that could work both as office-commuters and canyon-carvers. 

I’m guessing you got a Clarity? You’re right though; ICE/manual transmissions isn’t the hill to die on when it comes to 99% of the vehicles out there.