Prior to the pandemic, we had started renting larger vehicles for family road trips. I don’t need to drive around in a Suburban most days, but for a long road trip with people and space? It’s a nice temporary change of pace.

Engineers are great and all, but without top design professionals and solid product managers you will get nowhere with all the talent in the world.  And how  many products do Apple and Google snuff out because they either fail at it or fail to grasp the market?

I got rid of my ‘94 Escort wagon when the exhaust needed extensive repairs and we inherited a nearly brand new vehicle.  I might still have it if not for that free vehicle.

Two kids who were in seats.  Mazda 3 hatch MT is all I needed.  Plenty of room to cram all the kid crap for weekend trips, never even got a roof rack.  And it’s still going strong at 13 years.  It just started showing it’s first rust, which for New England and the Mazda rep seems pretty darn good to me.

I assume this thing completely sucks at crash tests in the US.  I can’t drive fast hardly ever in Massachusetts, we should have our own crash test rating.  And I should have this car that is so cute, yes you are car, you’re so cute!

I loved those old light Subaru wagons.  Great on most road conditions around New England a hoot to drive.

This. There are many hill towns in Western, MA that still have miles of dirt roads. Accessing one of my favorite swimming holes requires going down a road that my Mazda 6 did not love. It made it, but a little extra clearance would make me feel better about not scraping my front bumper off.

Cowboys fans likely.  They get the swiftest of punishments in Philly.

That Jetta R line does look enticing, but the photos show it has ~4600 miles.  Lousy dealers gaming the search engines.

I stated this in another thread, but for some reason the Taos has a $600 higher destination charge on the VW configurator. Out the door price is basically the same. But point well taken that in the US, there really is no savings for getting the car. What I can’t say is if the Golf is built more solidly than a small…

That’s a little surprising.  Maybe the Golf comes with more discounts than an SUV in the US to make that premium more explicit.

It’s a little tricky, but for some reason the destination charge on a base Taos shows up as $600 more expensive than for a base Golf for me, so they’re the same price.  Base Golf has a 6 spd, so really, it’s a great deal in comparison.

I like the look of the Taos.  It’s probably the closest thing I can get now to the wagon I want.  

Can confirm that the prius is a prime target in metro Boston. Plenty parked on the street getting hit. 

I doubt they're missing out on revenue with prices like this. I'm sure they'd love this level of scarcity and lack of price competition to continue I definitely. 

I'm 6'4" and drive Mazda 3. With nobody behind me, it's pretty comfy, plenty of legroom. Only small children should sit behind me though. 

Welcome to the realization.  Here’s part 23 of Hubert Horan’s takedown of the scam and labor law arbitrage that is these shitcos: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-twenty-three-ubers-already-hopelessly-unprofitable-economics-take-a-major-coronavirus-hit.html

The taxi industry successfully fought off unionization and turned cabbies into independent contractors that kept what they earned after leasing the cab from the co. and probably slipping some cash to dispatch for good calls.  It was okay, but not great before Uber/Lyft.  Those shitcos figured out how to inject more…

Elon is lying to cover up for cheapening his cars and deleting features in the face of  a chip shortage.  The radar delete is a far more serious misdeed, but hey we logged the lumbar support, sure!

My wife’s Uncle always had a BMW 7 series.  He said it was the most comfortable ride for the tall set (he’s about 6'3").