Who compiled this list? Was there any logic behind it, or did you just grab random comments. LA? The city that is INFAMOUS for its complete lack of usable public transit and insane traffic? DC? The metro that’s always on fire? Yet you completely exclude NYC and Chicago - the only two usable public transit systems in…

How did the Wrangler not make this list? Every Wrangler is modded with the tackiest additions you could imagine and spend the rest of their days in a mall parking lot.

This is a universal issue in the US

Chicago (not Illinois): nobody stops at stop signs - even the cops. We just slow down and roll through. You only stop fully if traffic is really bad or pedestrians are crossing. People always roll through, sometimes barely slowing down.

Not sure what it is, but I think it’s a Gurgel? It was really tiny - original Beetle size. Spotted in São Paulo

This article provides a lot more detail and it makes sense how he lives: https://www.beyondships.com/Cruise-articles-Super-cruiser.html

There have been various periods in my life where I dropped everything for a few months at a time to travel: although it was backpacking, hostels, working remote, etc - not a cruise ship.

Not even a cell phone probably. They don’t really work on the boats or in foreign locations. He probably just uses wifi when it’s available. He doesn’t strike me as someone concerned with staying connected.

Very silly list. How did Mitsubishi escape and nobody realized that Fiat barely sells a single product in the US? But BMW, Jeep (the only stellantis brand that makes money/sense/has a future) and Chevy? Come on.

Were homologation requirements dropped in recent years? I feel like I haven’t seen a batshit crazy Homologation spec car released in at least 20 years.

Mistreating airline staff is such a cynically American behavior. Mix of entitlement, disrespect, flippant to authorities, condescending to workers and disregard for safety and well being of those around you. All of the worst traits of Americans on full display in a metal tube.

Exporter ia the word - not producer.

Any Ferdinand Piëch fever dream engineering. Like shoehorning a LONGITUDINAL 4.2 V8 and twin-turbo 5.0 V10 into the engine bay of a midsized FWD sedan chassis. This made the 2005 to 2012 Audi A6/S6/RS6 an incredible car to drive but horrendously complicated to maintain.

The seller states over $14k in engine, brake and air system rebuilds and less than 1000 miles on it… only ever going to a campsite 10 miles away.

I’m in Brazil and there is a news segment on TV about the wait times at a public free hospital in one of their poorer states has a 4 hour wait for their emergency room, due to covid. Some people were leaving to go to a private hospital because of it.

You neglected to mention the real reason it sold for $55k: it has 6,000 miles. Six. Thousand. You could pick up dealer demo “new” models with about that.

I did exactly this. Someone asked if I wanted to pay it forward. I didn’t know what it would cost, but I only had a $3 black coffee that the person in front of me paid for. I kindly declined, gave the barsita a $5 bill and moved on. I’m not going to accept anything for free and I’m not going to participate in this…

BMW does this for three reasons:

The Explorer isn’t even that bad. At least the real pipes are being used. They only did this so the tips didn’t get soot black from the turbo DI engine. On the Q5, there is are horrible plastic QUAD fake exhaust surrounds (that are blocked with plastic and have no depth at all) and the actual, SINGLE pipe isn’t…

You’ve heard of “Buyer Beware”. This guy failed the even simpler test of “buyer don’t be a total pushover when you know it’s all wrong”