I think the issue here is that for this particular owner, just parking a potential fire hazard outside isn’t a viable solution. Honestly, it’s not a viable solution for anyone. Do you want a potential uncontrolled fire to start just a few feet from your house? Is GM going to pay to replace the siding that melts, paint…

Yep! I love driving. BUT, not the stereotypical jalop style. I like being in my car, because it’s comfortable and it plays my music and I looooove going to new places. I love looking out the back window and seeing my bike attached, knowing that I’m gonna do something cool when I get to where I’m going.

Honestly, same here BUT the wildpeaks are actually designed mot to affect mileage and weight very much- add a set of these and you’ve got 90% of the gains one gets from going full adventurewagon with almost none of the downsides. 

Almost any “overlanding” modification to a Subaru Outback. Take a wagon with good enough abilities off road with the ability to get gas mileage in the 30s and drive comfortably across country, then add 1000 pounds of winches and racks and roof tents and bull bars and roof ladders and skid plates and big tires and a…

I mean, the world is actually on fire, COVID is back with a vengeance, Afghanistan is just... ugh and performative cruelty seems to be the flavor of the day for about half the country. Soooooo... just, ugh. 

I think what they mean is that you, the average driver, do not need more horsepower. 

For long distance solo driving where what matters most is being able to eat in the car without spilling anything on your shirt/lap, a meal that can be eaten one-handed without even looking at it, nothing beats the McDonalds 2-cheeseburger value meal. It’s as close to a perfect food pellet for humans as possible.…

Ah fuck it. We’re gonna burn this planet to cinders because we need to show everyone how big our dicks are. 

because literally no buyers want 2 doors. This is basically what you will get.

They discontinued them because “everyone who wants one has bought one and sales are going down.” OK, so it’s now ten years later and there’s a whole new crop of people who want an element...

Came here to say exactly this- the Element was ahead of it’s time. And I still remember getting a shipment from a printer for a trade show that fit fine in the printer’s Element but couldn’t fit in our rented suburban. 

I can’t believe you missed the best wedge car EVER, the second gen Celica/Supra. Especially with the louvers on the rear window, it was the most 80s production car ever. Plus it’s a toyota so reliability is probably not gonna be a problem.

Uncarpeted, un-stylish, rubber coated Trunks/hatches. Seriously, anyone who’s ever been to the beach knows that the carpet in the hatch is really only good for trapping sand for 2-3 years. Instead of carpet, give me a hatch that converts into a van-style bed when I fold the seats down. No carpet, no easily scratched…

Yeah, but that’s not a child safety seat, that’s just a booster seat. By the time your kid is big enough to use a booster seat, you’re talking about a $20 piece of plastic. Show me a back seat designed for kids that’s basically a fiberglass shell with nowhere for goldfish crackers to get stuck in.

Is it? Treat your kids like shit and see how they respond. 

OK, that thing is adorable and I want one.

If COVID-19 has taught me anything, it’s that we’re not probably fucked, we’re proper fucked.

I’ll do you one better: stop shaming people for wanting an automatic.

Well, they got you to look, and that’s the first step. But yeah, I’m also squarely in their target market as a middle aged white guy and that price is out of my reach. But hooray for harley- for the first time in my life they became aspirational rather than laughable.

Ducatis and BMWs and Triumphs can all be outperformed by less expensive Japanese bikes and that’s totally fine. Italian, German and English cars an all be outperformed by significantly cheaper American and Japanese cars.

But if you want an M3 (or whaterver it is today), you want an M3, not a mustang. If you want a…