I made it through the entire article. It’s still a silly take. If he was intending to write a love letter to a loved piece of familiarity, he should have said so rather than use a bunch of misguided cultural analysis to make such an absurd assertion.

Yeah. There are so many irrefutable arguments to the author’s take that my head is about to explode.

It wasn’t a myth for me. I had a ‘95 Blazer and it was an unmitigated disaster.

Yeah but you guys could have bought a loaded VW All Track with a MANUAL TRANSMISSION for under $30K and you didn’t do that either.

Ordering a car you have never driven is in line with another rule I have, which is to never buy a new car in its 1 year of production.

The added urea consumption is pretty much the only thing I notice, and even then, times refilling the tank is so far and few between it hardly matters anyway.

The family Spyder never gave us much trouble, but let’s be honest, they do have a reputation for being temperamental.

There’s no reason to (at least for the V6). I have a 2014 Q5 Tdi (exact same engine as the Touareg) and there was almost no discernible change in performance or efficiency before and after the fix. I still get over 30 mpg on the highway and it still hauls ass off the line.

FIFY

Hot take: Teslas are really luxury. Sure the S and X are but they are easily outclassed by the interiors of price comparable cars. And the cars they sell the most of, the 3 and Y? Not even close. A giant screen and the ability to make fart noises does not a luxury car make.

Sure, but they’re probably rendered too.

Only if you want to keep it running.

I haven’t lived in a place that snows in a long time but if I did, I think after this storm incident I’d be keeping some emergency gear in the car to handle getting stuck for long durations.

So kinda like a Regera? That’s kinda neat.

It made sense at the time. They did it for efficiency and cost reasons since manuals were more efficient than automatics back then.

You can certainly have a manual in a hybrid. The original Honda Insight had one.

All new BMWs, because this...

Isn’t that really describing articulation rather than flex?

Agreed. There are 2 triumphs registered just on my block. With 2 different owners no less.

I asked a similar question when I saw that a 2010 Lexus SC430 still came with a tape deck.