Cool story bro...I like these.

You shouldn’t, because it looks good!

is this a safe space to admit that I don't hate the look of it? 

I really don’t see a problem with this, unless someone genuinely believes it is an ICE car and buys one without realizing it’s not. EV car manufacturers will need to find ways to differentiate trim levels in their lineup, and using a naming scheme comparable to what customers are used to is totally fine in my book.

He wasn’t black though.

oh, totally.
And that’s really what the “defund the police” movement is all about. When you’re a hammer (or an armored vehicle), everything looks like a nail.
But of course it’s willfully interpreted as “we don’t want any police at all and we want violent criminals to run the streets”.

He might have a gun!  Don’t want to put ourselves in danger!  See Uvalde, TX.

By the fact this equipment was used as opposed to say....a simple fusillade of hollow-points, we can surmise the likely race of the driver.

Unarmed (presumably...doesn’t actually say) individual posing no immediate (once immobilized) threat to the public = let’s go in as fast and strong as we can.

I think he was white, so that wasn’t an option.

They have long been a guilty rental pleasure of mine. Especially the Hemis. Just stupid fun. And even the V6s are really good to drive.

I graduated in 2005 and I approve this message. I fucking loved my Ford fucking Ranger so much.

I graduated in a rural area around ‘05, replace G6 and Sunfire with Grand Am/Grand Prix and remove all the “for’n trash” from that list and you pretty much have my high school parking lot.

I could write a 5000 word article on high school car culture in mid-2000s rural Ohio man I swear.

My first thought when reading “cigarette car” was Pontiac Sunfire with a lay hanging from the rearview mirror, and smells like tanning lotion. That was the standard hot girl car from 2007-2010

I’m from a rich town. The slutty girls in high school all had Bitch Baskets.

MOTHERFUCKIN’ FORD RANGER
Also your high school experience sounds like a feverdream lol

This is great, but around here we’ve always had an unspoken list of what we call “slut cars.” Every generation had their own set, I’ll use my graduation year as an example:

Your sister is indeed a hot girl with that car history, respectfully.

My sister was/is a hot girl and she smoked American Spirits (of course). She used to have a Chevrolet Beretta with a broken thermostat, constantly failing alternator, and drooping inner roof, until she replaced it with a Subaru Justy (2WD, 5-speed). But I think this supposed phenomenon is mostly an effect of the…