The risk of an accident is primarily affected by the driver. However, the consequences if said accident are very much impacted by the vehicle.

Any car over a certain horsepower actually.

It’s not necessarily how “difficult” it is to drive: it’s the consequences if you are in an accident. Being heavier and taller puts your bumper right at head height for a normal car with proportionally more force. Teenagers (and some people in general) are just more likely to get in an accident. You should be able to…

I think that they mass of the vehicle and the height of the center of mad ought to be the determining factors. Anything over 5500lbs with a center of mass above 24 inches ought to require a stricter license. I might add horsepower in the mix as well. It’s not that they should be banned, it’s that you should have to…

The kind of person who raises their kid to think it’s ok to do 100 mph down beachfront residential streets?

I mean, this isn’t that far off from the actual movie. The only real difference is that the stupid kid is a malicious son of a mobster instead of a rando moron. But who knows, maybe this kid has a mobster for a Dad too?

Plot twist: father is John Wick.

Yikes. Those are both cars that would be hard to part with.

My grandfather would but used Mercedes AMGs. Newer than this but still old enough to have depreciated. He had the money to buy new, but paying half the price for 90% of the car was just too big a difference for him.

Is the force 1 a Viper motor?

I’d imagine it’s like a mustang with interior and exterior material choice that has more in common with a high end Jaguar than a Mustang.

I don’t think they sold it with a straight 6 nearly as long as they sold the Viper with the v10. And it was never “oooh... Six cylinders!” V8s had been a thing for a while before the first Vette ever showed up as a concept.

I think esp. a paddle shifter option, either the real dual clutch deal, or a fancy torque converter like the muricans seem to like.

Something something threat to national security something something Russian collusion.

I think you may have gotten unlucky. Our first one I’m pretty sure was wrecked before we got it, and our little RAV 4 may or may not have been fraudulently represented as having half the miles it actually had. We haven’t had to do anything mechanical on either of them (any of the three actually).

She does seem to be mad whenever I untie her...

We were both working full time with the small kiddos (one of whom was a new baby). I was commuting an hour each way, then swapped jobs to another that was an hour each way. I just racked up the miles faster than I realized.

They actually sold reasonably well. The second gen was much worse, however (chintzy interior).

As an owner of a Matrix XRS (the 180hp six speed variant), I must say that I believe I do know how good it is. It’s our second (the first was a base Vibe, which unfortunately my wife totaled).

Thing about “ruining” a Corvair is: they’re not “classic” in that way that a 69' fastback Mustang is, or a Ferrari 250GTO. There were a bunch of them made, and they were kind of odd ducks even when they were new. That’s not to knock them (I would consider myself an admirer), but rather to say that if anything, the…