I used to drive an old pickup that was built in the Pleistocene, before antilock brakes.  I learned that while a horn can convey to another driver that they’ve done something idiotic, skidding tires are soooo much more effective in this capacity.  

I once paid a lawyer to contest a ticket but never have I done it myself. A friend did though, he was clocked 15 over or something and when he asked to see the radar gun the cop told him he’d already cleared it. He decided to contest it. The day he was pulled over it was absolutely frigid...like 15 below. His defense…

I was in my early ‘20's, living in Kansas City in an apartment that didn’t have covered parking. I had a car and a motorcycle, but I kept the motorcycle in my parents’ garage off in a suburb, and would head over to ride it when I could. The first nice day of spring I headed over there to get it cleaned up for the…

I’ve been traveling 70+ on a perfectly clear road, only to crest a hill and find the other side has sheet ice from the wind blowing snow across the road and previous cars squeezing it into ice.  I’ve since learned that winter preparedness means (among other things) bringing a change of pants.

The worst since Reagan Bran!

I seem to remember seeing a car commercial with a car just driving lazily down the road, but in small print along the bottom of the screen it said “Professional driver on closed course. Do not attempt”.

This is nothing. Comer now has credible evidence that Joe Biden himself did not scrunch down the inner bag, which directly led to half a box of Cheerios becoming stale.

No mention of the tighty whities of the guy wiping the window in that top picture.

A neighbor’s relative had one and would drive it into the neighborhood occasionally. Normal looking guy when standing nowhere near the car, but behind the wheel just looked like a twat who is trying too hard. I know: feature, not a bug.

Around here it’s “I’m gonna buy a Jeep, I’m gonna get a yellow lab, I’m gonna put a bandana around the dog’s neck, and I’m gonna drive around with the top off and my dog riding copilot. Then I’m gonna trade it in on a Rav4.

I thought the same thing as I read down the list of reliability issues. Everything but the seats!

+1 for the Top Gear USA props.  They get a lot of grief being compared to the original, but it was a hell of an entertaining show, and entertainment is what its about.  

Granted, it was merely half that size, but driving across NM one time with 60mph gusting crosswinds we nailed a monster tumbleweed head on in our old Impreza (3 bikes on the roof meant we could barely hit 60 floored in those conditions). The tumbleweed was unavoidable...wasn’t there, then it was. Broke a couple of…

I thought I found a really good deal on one but then this is what arrived...

If I had the cash I’d have a garage full of them

Like you said, perfect on paper. Out of curiosity I checked the local dealer’s site to see what the hybrid AWD version of these are going for. Same price as the hybrid AWD version of the Rav4

Any answer other than yours just seems like entitlement. Game over, we can all go home.

Not the sub 30k Tesla?  That’s fictional.