Worse than that, it just looks like nothing. It doesn’t look like an Explorer. It doesn’t even look like a Ford. It’s one of the blandest blobs currently in EVs right now.

The reality is that most shops and most dealerships do not work on vehicles with manual transmissions anymore.

why when they have all of those free customer cars to practice on??

And I read Ann Arbor as meaning the driver was likely a student, which may not be true.

Yes and no. The justice department can still come after you if they determine you committed any crimes. But typically, yes, leaving the company pretty much washes away the ick.

They all look like that up close

Depends on if you’re talking a performance hybrid or an efficiency hybrid. If you’re going for the latter then you want the engine, when its running, to be sitting in its peak thermal efficiency range for the power demand, and having a CVT that allows it to operate at pretty much any RPM in relation to transmission…

Slower.  Because Lexus.  Tehy gotta leave enough overhead for the bigger engined versions. 

At 21 I was driving a $400 Ford tempo I got from an insurance auction. Had to replace the front valance, hood and fender and tried to match the color as best I could with a rattle can.

In NYC and LA they’re all just Ubers

This is poetic and absolutely spot on.
I think, because of the size of those boats, the short people driving them don’t even hear when they run over kids/small adults.

Plastic upholstery on those seats, too. No leather available:

Same here. These tacked on simple rectangular screens over the steering wheel just looked tacked on and typically don’t flow with the rest of the screens in vehicles. 

“See more women in the Flight Attendant role in general so the brain takes shortcuts and just assumes.”

but they said stewardess instead of flight attendant

Perfectly said.

“everyone has a form of unconscious bias”

I just drove a 2011 retired police Tahoe for a week out in Colorado.  It was weird.  It was fine for getting around in shitty weather and hauling our snowboarding stuff around, but I was so happy to drive our 4Runner again when we got back home.

I came here to post this. These behemoths should require a CDL to operate, or maybe just be banned from parking lots.

No alternate universe necessary, just go to Ogdenville or North Haverbrook.