Youngish Boomer here. (Ok, not really young, but young for a Boomer.)

Thundercougarfalconbird

This. There is a big difference between adding bicycle infrastructure and adding good, effective bicycle infrastructure. Lots of cities slap a line of paint on a road and call it a bike lane. Hell, the major city near me touted a whole mess of new bike lanes, but they put them in the wrong spot. So there’s street…

“Can’t get there from here” is probably a good summary of the biking infrastructure in many places. Not functionally designed for effective/safe transportation - but recreation for people who have greater confidence in sketchy situations.

But the Ruckus is much more expensive and more importantly, requires insurance/registration/plates (in most states)

I do drive a crossover (though that’s 90% because my wife was insistent for some reason), but I’d be hard pressed to fit a dishwasher in it, I think.

Same, I guess. Just recently got rid of my manual - largely due to a longer commute to work (car was 13 years old, so I had concerns on its reliability for the long commute, and riding the clutch during Houston rush hour traffic was just terrible).

Same boat.  Bought a 23' Tacoma rwd and love just lazily cruising to the trails with my bike in the back. Turns out its way less anxiety inducing to use a reliable and stock vehicle to get around while getting your thrills on things that dont disrupt my day to day life when not perfect.

So... as you get older this changes.

You figure out the ones you actually want to avoid, and then avoid them.

Just wait another 17 years and you can import the VW Up!

Volvo’s in the right headspace

Dutch Reach

What does declining to speak to a “reporter” at an F1 race (who was told multiple times before reaching her to go away but persisted in true paparazzi fashion) have to do with her knowledge (or lack there of) F1? This accusation that by rebuffing a grid interview you obviously don’t know anything about F1 makes zero…

I guess no means no unless Brundle is doing the asking.

But the fact that people don’t want to BE attentive while driving shows how dumb an idea it is to have built all of our transportation needs on driving. Hell, we car enthusiasts SHOULD make this argument more often: the types of cars being bought are clearly not ones made for people who drive because they like to…

Equinox. Indiana Winters can suck 

If you want a car from this side of the decade, you are looking at $10k-$15k. Dealershits really fucked us through this covid event.

Exactly what I said. A early to mid 2000s Honda for $5-6k would be the perfect choice, manual or auto, they’ll all be slow with their 115hp 4-cylinders.

The 15,000 car is now what the $3500-5000 car was to us 20 years ago.