I feel like “Archer” already covered this pretty thoroughly. 

I am honestly surprised the adjuster assigned to this claim let it pass because there are SO MANY red flags

Thank god we have another SUV with serious off road chops available here in the US, where as we all know, there are no roads at all and every drive requires 4wd as you pass the rotting wreckage of lesser vehicles that failed to make it out of the suburbs.

My city just dropped the speed limits in and around neighborhoods by 5mph and it’s great. That’s been paired with an effort to de-prioritize cars and re-prioritize pedestrians and bikes. Like, when they redo roads, they use the speed hump style sidewalk crossing where cars have to slow down rather than pedestrians…

I think you are falling into the trap that sitting on the couch is the only baseline for comfortable and uncomplicated. And thus, anything comfortable and uncomplicated is as boring and tame as sitting on the couch.

I disagree. The key difference with Saturn was the way they treated their customers. which is a thing with value, even if you don’t value it.

An adult car is the one that just works and requires as little maintenance, thought and extra money as possible, so you can focus on your career and your life trajectory rather than on the fact that your car needs expensive things. What do you value more- a cool car or the ability to save enough to go on an awesome…

I’ve said this before but I wish I could transport conservatives back to their vaunted golden age of unrestricted emissions and giant v-8s and see how long it takes before they choke on the fumes.

You would be surprised how much of what’s “fun” in an enthusiast car is actually code for uncomfortable or complicated.

It’s ok to say, I deserve to be comfortable and to be able to do a 7 hour drive without feeling like I just ran a marathon. It’s OK to say, yeah, I really don’t want to “feel the road” because the road is a poorly maintained piece of garbage. It’s OK to say, I want my partner not to hate driving with me. :)

For a lot of people, Just having A PRICE is a feature. Haggling sucks. It just does. It adds anxiety and awfulness to a process that does not need it. And it justifies the need for car salesmen. Which are 100% unnecessary. Because we have the internet, we’ve already done the research.

“Priuses suck.”

Honestly, most of the dumbest stuff I’ve ever heard about cars comes from enthusiasts and is best summed up as “there’s only one way to enjoy cars, and that’s my way.”

First gear tells me that really, the trick with electric is just getting over that hump or jumping into the pool or whatever metaphor you want to use- once you’re in, learning the new system is not difficult.

To be fair, this is almost exactly what I did for my last car purchase- Did everything online (it was during covid), just had to come into the dealershit to do the closing.

To be fair, that has probably happened multiple times with dealerships. And to folks who are mentally impaired, elderly folks with dementia, the list goes on.

OK, I have the perfect solution to the robocab problem: hear me out- First, you buy or rent a centralized location where your autonomous cabs can go for repairs and things like that. Then, you put the remote drivers IN the robocabs so they are available no matter what happens, even if there are connectivity…

Nah, fuck that guy.

To be fair, they were obtained by looting the people of Syria for decades so it all works out. And “But this classic ferarri deserves better?” Then Ferarri shouldn’t have sold it to Assad.

counterpoint: jeep enthusiasm does not translate into car enthusiasm. It either translates into more jeep enthusiasm or a hardcore enthusiasm for reliability.