Even NHTSA put out a video discussing this exactly.

If im going to crash into a wall, sure, I’ll take the smart. But lol @ thinking you’re going to beat the laws of physics in a real world car crash with the 20 ton SUVS everyone has these days.

All of the fancy touch screens and bells and whistles. And anything that can potentially take away from the pure joy of driving, it’s what enthusiasts love.

I discovered that there is zero engine instrumentation that can be called up on the glass-cockpit displays. No oil pressure, oil temp, boost pressure, ammeter, voltmeter, coolant temp or anything else.

Yes! There is no need to be able to make calls, check email, Twitter, Facebook. Why wifi in a car?

Hold on, hold on. There’s a difference in image between an SUV and a minivan?

My boss found out and got me a cell modem so I could be more productive during the commute. I’d get to work caught up on emails and some paperwork done.

Even then, just get a little utility trailer to haul the crap around, which is what Europeans do. There is barely a car on that continent that doesn’t have a trailer hitch.

If you have kids, their impact on the world (not to mention their potentially hundreds of millions of descendants) will exceed the impact of any of your vehicle choices by many, many orders of magnitude.

Also, driving my 50 year old car does less damage than the average person’s 5-year replacement cycle for cars does.

VW’s smell like crayons inside

I’ve owned an awful lot of German (and French, Swedish, British and Italian) cars, and they are all perfectly reliable when you either buy them new and maintain them properly, or buy them used and spend the money and effort to get them up to snuff (because if they were perfect why would they have been sold?) and then…

True, I always suspected most jalops were fake car enthusiasts. Mostly techy guys who like to read about cars at their IT jobs, but don’t really ever drive or own fun cars.

also appears that Jalopnik has been infested with lame, basic, terrible drivers if you people can’t have fun or handle more than 300hp on the street. lol

Modern cars have too much tech for their own good.

The attention to detail that engineers at Porsche put into this 3.2 liter version is, plainly, impressive.

I don’t really see what the point of that was

the 1st amendment only protects you from the government, not your employer. Not sure why so few people can understand that.

You could be living in a country where you dodge landmines on your way to dig food out of a dumpster.

Which can be countered with: “That Constitution you claim to uphold? Yeah, you can’t really pick and choose which parts of it you respect. This really is one of those “all or nothing” deals and if you fire me for exercising my 1st amendment rights, I’m going to sue your ass.” That’s the American way. And I hope to…