If a little “curb contact” busts a ball joint or breaks a control arm, your car is a piece of shit. Go walk down your street and you’ll probably find curb rash on 9 out of 10 sets of wheels. Then note how many of them also have busted ball joints.

“Elon is literally saving the world”

I sort of assume you could get a Badlands and just talk a dealer into swapping some 35's on it and be in the same setup.

That’s adorably optimistic

1. You can push-start a manual.

I definitely steered with my knee while clutchless shifting and holding my phone/a sandwich on more than one occasion in high school. I was also an idiot.

Until you have to scrap the vehicle due to a transmission issue. A friend just scraped his Jeep Compass for the very reason. Consider my 2001 VW Golf. I just replaced the clutch for the first time at 167K miles.  Very happy to row them gears.

I have been stopped by an unmarked car and have been put in there in several countries (in Europe). For a normal traffic stop.

Come on dude. I’m not a fucking journalist, and I don’t have to watch every word I say.

Calling BS on you. Drive a manual and you have one less hand to screw around with your phone on or eat or put on makeup. That moving left leg means you can’t properly hold that big gulp between your legs (re-reading that, my new porn name for it is “Big Gulp”). You have to anticipate hills, slowdowns, passing maneuvers…

That right there is bullshit. Anyone that drives a manual knows that.

Ahem.

I love manuals, but the benefits of having one have become practically nonexistent aside from “I like the feel” and that it’s a pretty good theft deterrent.

No, it’s called perspective, which both you and mostly Erin, didn’t bother to have.

I am always happy to criticize the NYPD and have attended many a protest in my lifetime, but facts matter in a story like this and it does a disservice not to include more information. There is record of the person involved vandalizing public safety cameras around the city. Now, we might try out the rhetoric that…

No, OP is right.

Just in case the judge is on the fence about whether this constitutes Unlawful Detention, or Cruel and Unusual Punishment, I’d like to point out that this is a Kia Sedona.

Yeah this is nuts.

Despite NYPD’s claims, the videos posted of the event show no bottles or rocks being thrown as these men snatched up the protester and hustled her into an unmarked minivan, though clearly marked cops on Trek-brand bikes can be seen maintaining a perimeter around the kidnapping