“So, these are ‘floorboards’ down here?”

Nice article...

We occasionally get some damn good things when companies let the engineers play.

Lived there for 8 years, I agree

They did once make such a thing, and I bought it new.

I like how you didn’t bold the “little bit useful” part...

There are enough young single people who are not particularly rich and are now living in urban or urban-ish areas who‘d love a sporty little thing that can be a little bit useful, a little bit fun, and a little bit efficient.

calling it “seductive,” “athletic,” “aerodynamic” and complete with “best-in-class load space and luggage capacity.”

LOOK AT ITS HAPPY, SURPRISED, STUPID WITTLE FACE

I’m probably going to have to repeat this a million times in the comments... but one of the criteria for “good” headlights is that they also don’t glare the crap out of oncoming drivers.

And miatas being mostly driven by people who don’t fit in them.

Since OEMs are Gaming the CAFE system with using light truck classification for corssovers, the solution is simple. Either eliminate the light truck classification or add a tow/cargo capacity requirement to push the crossovers into the passenger car category where they belong.
This would eliminate the benefit of…

Neutral: add a yearly registration fee of $0.50 to $1 for every pound the vehicle is over 3000.

Fuck, yeah. They’d find me on the flight deck, sitting in the captain’s seat making prop plane noises and surrounded by empty mini bottles. My first words to the rescuers [maintenance folks] would either be “I’ll never get over Macho Grande.” or “Surely, you can’t be serious.”

Seriously, everything I’ve read about this is pre-spun for a civil damages suit. She was moderately inconvenienced and partially at fault. I hope she’s merely fairly compensated.

“Maybe Air Canada can look into compensating for some therapy.”

My guess is that, being Canadian, they were too polite to wake a sleeping passenger. 

I’ve driven all over this country and I’d disagree.

Each state/city has their own quarks. Orlando’s (and Florida’s dense areas as a whole) is made difficult by a mixture of very young and very old drivers, a steady flow of transient (tourist) drivers that are unfamiliar with the roads, constant construction, and a…

I would still bet Florida Man / Woman to win the Darwin Award. It is to be expected Florida Person will try to sabotage Florida Car for the lolz.

Neutral: