underrated comment.

My daily is an FJ60 so speed _is not_ an issue. 

You never raced? Anytime i am at the drag strip, all i can think about is, man this would be nice with some more power.

My favorite car to drive has 48hp, so I got you beat. Although my old, 70hp Chevrolet Turbo Sprint was more fun, so I guess a little more power couldn’t hurt.

I find about 200hp to be the perfect happy medium. 250 if the car is especially sporting.

I hope they spend a ton of money on this and in the next 6-7 years something better comes along.

Still a resident here…and you’re still right. 

That one hits hard. One experience I can’t get out of my head happened in 2017. I was living in a house my mom “gave” me with two roommates. That’s in quotes because the reality was that she used my credit on a crazy subprime business loan pretending to be a mortgage...so I was on the hook for it.

Women everywhere deals with crap like this all the time.  At the gym, the grocery store, the mall...One scumbag down, how many more to go...

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!