“Ahem BSG..”

How can an employee of a reputable hotel treat customers that way?

you can use “Compare the Market” (Google it for pictures of meerkats)

This with proper bulletproofing:

What’s the upside, exactly, aside from being a bit different?

Edited comment after I realized what you were saying. You are the first person who I’ve heard of having a problem with kids kicking doors open into (presumably) your car.

As a website, we’re all but required to love cats. Jalopnik itself was born of the internet, and the internet loves cats.

Leafs burn too, although the cause here was undetermined

It will last short time...

I remember when CR gave a black circle to the LS1 engine.

You can’t justifiably give a poor score to a car you haven’t actually driven. It’s a logical fallacy. In order to accurately review something, be it a car, movie, or type of food, you need to actually partake in the activity. Otherwise, your review is utter BS and should be trusted by no one. Like the saying goes,…

The “you’ll want a minivan” comments make me shake my head. Wife has a Camry Hybrid, works fantastic for kids, even for trips. I suspect half the crap people “need”, they really don’t....

A used 2014 Ford Transit Connect Wagon. Seating for 7, style in the same square ballpark as the Soul, available with an Ecoboost I4 good for 178hp/184ft-lb and a posted 22C/30H/25Co MPG. High roof and low deck make sure it easy to load strollers, babies and your fruitful cajones. Think of it as a Mazda5+, except with…

They all offered worse handling and ride than the tire they replaced or the tire that replaced them. They all wore in an extremely short time period. They were all loud. None of them offered good wet traction. They were all absolute garbage.

So, we all have poor friends with a set of mismatched tires... If they need a decent cheap new set, what should we recommend? Who makes the best cheap tire suitable for normal road use/conditions? Let’s say they need to stay under $300 for a full set on something pretty pedestrian like a Corolla.

Who are you and what have you done with Kristen?

Just nothing Goodyear.

Coopers anyone?

I’m very much a value shopper. I buy cheaper, often slightly inferior versions of everything. But not tires. I buy the best tires. Driving, especially the traction and feel so dependent on the tires, is too important to accept even slightly reduced performance.

I expressed myself poorly. My initial comment was solely about the lack of economic and industrial pressures on the natural environment. I didn’t mean to imply there were no people around to clean stuff.