To be fair, my friends who had babies and Elements said the doors were not great for getting kids in and out.

100% disagree. “Lack of power” is just the acceptable answer. It didn’t sell because it looks like a minivan and it does not in any way shape or form look cool, overlander-y or butch. And sadly, most American men don’t have big enough balls to drive something that doesn’t look butch. It’s got a smiley front end, it…

I mean, it has the same suicide doors as a Honda Element so technically not a 2 door.

But, and I say this with all due respect, Pontiacs were all horrible plastic covered garbage. Also, 100% agree on the solstice, I think it and it’s saturn doppelgänger were the prettiest convertible made in the last 20 years.

I have a friend who swears by them but he’s also had 2 engines self destruct... but even with that he still loves them- that’s a big statement.

I didn’t get e-bikes until someone lent me one just for a quick ride- with the system off, it felt like a 50 pound MTB. Turn it to level one, and the weight goes away. Level 2 and it’s like you’re having one of those perfect rides where your legs just feel unstoppable. Level 3 and you realize this must be what it…

I mean, Putin did invade Ukraine and that did cause massive disruptions to food (because Ukraine makes a LOT of food), fuel (because Russia supplied a lot of oil and natural gas) Supply chain (as most companies pulled out of Russia which caused all sorts of global issues) but yeah, it’s all Biden’s fault.

I look at the fact that the Trump administration opened up more lands for oil exploration and exploitation than anyone in recent history and the industry response was... crickets. No one wanted them.

Umm, we do produce our own diesel. It’s just that all those diesel plants decided that now is the time to do their maintenance. And we do produce our own oil. And we get the bulk of our imported oil from Canada. We are not dependent on the saudis. We get more oil from mexico than from saudi arabia. In fact, we used to…

Yeah, because the Biden administration forced Russia to invade Ukraine and then forced all the refineries into maintenance mode.

So, correct me if I’m reading this wrong, but the low supply is because plants are offline for maintenance, and because Russia decided to make themselves a pariah state, right?

The Honda Element. It was the perfect sport-utility vehicle with the emphasis squarely on utility. A flat floor and low load height meant you could fit things in the Element that wouldn’t fit in a suburban. Fit 2 mountain bikes, your girlfriend, all your camping gear for a week and a dog in it comfortably. Bags of…

Nah, I’m saying that most people who need trucks for work won’t be too upset about changing to EV. And the folks who are upset aren’t actually using trucks for anything more than blue collar cosplay.

As a borderline old man I get what you mean. My girlfriend and I had a conversation a while back because she was sort of upset about the fact that my daughter kind of off the cuff calls herself queer- her problem wasn’t with queerness, it was with the fact that she lost friends to AIDS, she remembered their struggles…

To be fair, he’s earned his arrogance- He survived the AIDS epidemic, he saw being gay go from being criminal to barely tolerated to accepted and fine, he saw gay relationships go from criminal to “go ahead and get married”- that kind of stuff leaves scars and those scars can very easily present as arrogance and…

My former father in law was a retired dairy farmer. He owned 2 cars- a first-gen toyota yaris 2 door and an old as hell f-150.

I mean, these were the same people who bemoaned emissions controls, catalytic converters, airbags, ABS and unleaded fuel.

It was back in the 80s when cassettes were king. I had an ammo box full of casettes (they fit almost perfectly and looked soooo cool). Put them on the roof of my mom’s new car, which I was borrowing because suburban punk, got in the car, and drove off.

Oh fer fucks sake, you live in texas. Just buy a used beater truck. Spend 10K on something to haul parts and drive through water and if it gets ruined, it’s practically disposable. Then spend 50k on something nice.

But, it’s not being blown out of proportion. A company is essentially beta-testing their product in traffic, and overselling it’s abilities to do what they promise it can do, and is extremely combative when it comes to fixing the problem. Thus, it deserves attention from the NHTSA that it’s getting and hopefully this…