"Treat her like a fucking human being. JUST LIKE YOU WOULD WITH A MAN."

As long as you don't put too much on, and turn your knife into a waxy mess

So it's a good car, but is it better than the Avalon/Taurus/Maxima that it competes with?

Its's is has been appears to be fixed.

My suggestion:

Fair enough, thanks for the explanation.

What's the kink have to do with it being RWD?

My wild-ass-guess is B5 or B5.5 Passat.

What could possibly go wrong‽

If you pull in forward, you need to go out backward. I find it easier to back in than to back out.

You know, I really don't mind that purple convertible.

Any car that's conspicuous in the area where you're driving it. Driving a Rolls through the ghetto, driving a ratty old beater through a wealthy area, ricing out your car with a fart can exhaust and a huge spoiler.

One of my engineering professors started his career doing work with safety and risk management stuff. He always would emphasize the point that there is no such thing as zero risk. You can achieve a very low likelihood of something happening, but the possibility is always there.

Not in my mind.

My mom like it because there's more room for her crap in the center console area.

It probably uses very little gas in neutral. My car (2012 subaru impreza) will burn 0.18 gallons/hour when it's idling. Your kia probably would use it at a similar rate. But, if you leave the car in gear, you're using 0 gallons per hour. Really, it's unlikely to have made much of a difference for you either way.

You can also turn a gasoline car off when you're stopped.

Re. driving downhill in neutral:

Also: The UPS truck has to hit pretty much every road anyway, so making only right turns won't take them too far out of their way. But when I'm going to work, it is an inconvenience to drive in the wrong direction for a few blocks.

Roundabouts are a ton of fun to drive through, and super-efficient. There's one not far from my house which I go through occasionally. But every once in a while, someone gets terribly confused and doesn't know how to use it and goes the wrong way or just stops in the inner lane.