That’s true - but you’re paying $17k for a 13 year old car. How many miles does that GTO have? Has it been owned and garaged by a 90 year old Grandma, or thrashed and put away wet by a 16 year old punk? How much does it cost to rebuild that V8 when it falls apart? And good luck getting a decent loan to pick up that…

Buy the Stinger and swap the KIA badges for BMW ones before you get home. She and 99% of the other people with that ‘Why would you drive a KIA’ opinion will never know the difference.

My best friend’s Mom had one. I loved that thing - I even slept in it once when we borrowed it to drive to a party. The exhaust note at idle on the V8 was superb, even if it was a bit underpowered. 

I’m pretty sure all pre-2000 pickups smell of sweet and sour pork diapers

There’s even a picture. C’mon Torch

Kudos to the track crew for their speedy response as well. They were mere seconds behind Dad.

I would kill to pay $2.42/gallon.

Yes. ‘But, dude, it’s a Kia’ is the common response. I think it’s time to shift the perception.

I’ve seen 2 in person since they came out. Drove behind a gray one yesterday... Goddamn they look good. I’m going to buy an AWD GT despite all my friends telling me otherwise.

I don’t understand why your gripe is with the scooters - go yell at the city and state governments that refuse to update BART or the NYC Subway. If my choices are a shit-stained BART, a shit-raining subway station or a flimsy plastic $2.50/ride scooter, I’m taking the goddamn scooter. And that’s not Bird’s fault, no…

By the way, just to give you a sense of the world we live in now, if you Google “car seat headrest” you’ll almost exclusively get images of this guy 

Named it California, invited journalists to test it in California, not sold in California. Brilliant!

Agreed, except those three platforms are owned by three separate monster entities, all vying for global domination. You can’t back down in a war for the world.

Average interest rate is FIVE percent? What is the average credit score? That’s ridiculous for a new car!

Show up to the airport nine hours early? Why? You know just because you’re not at the airport you don’t have to be racing around the city trying to see every sight. Just sleep in or grab a beer at a nearby bar.

I find it ironic and maddening that the auto industry has the gall to sue the woman who owns the car because the manufacturer of the car built a fucking fire hazard.

It’s an error by the author, because right after that part about ‘junked’ is this:

That’s what surprised me the most about the first sentence of this article. Why is Torch using synthetic?

Yes. I’m the only one that drives my car EXCEPT when I take it to get washed or valet. I hate when they move it - you can never find the exact slot you had it in the last time and it feels foreign for about a week afterwards.

My roommate had this happen basically in reverse when we were in college. Someone stole his bike and he was driving through town a few months later with his Dad (who is very large and scary) and saw his bike. The kid riding it played dumb, but luckily my friend had written his initials on the underside of the seat in…