Why do car designers insist on putting more lights inside the car? On the dash, on the door, in the footwells, on the wheel...

Yep. I would have never looked at one as a younger person, but now that I’m older, it’s like, hey a four seat convertible that you can get basic GM parts for, everything works, it’s clean, was kept in climate controlled storage for a decade, and a low price for all of that? NP for sure!

It’s funny, in their latter days Oldsmobiles were watchwords for generic, uninteresting design, but that broad, simplistic styling has made them age into pretty solid examples of 90s/early aughts design. I like this.

I too feel as though I got rear-ended by the government just last night.

I felt the same when I read that section.  I don't recall the MazdaSpeed 6 being controversial.  

I have this pipe dream where sustainable fuel production grows to the point where it is cheaper to create it instead of pulling oil out of the ground.

first it was sportswashing, now it’s the car wash.

One heck of ad campaign if we’re still talking about their spokeman decades later. 

I’m impressed and disgusted at the same time.

Yeah, that’s the real story.

Marketing killed the minivan, which is sad, really, because they’re superior to compact and mid-size SUVs in every single way.

Probably my favorite thing about being married with a kid is how it broke me free of the obsession with being “cool”. People are too worried they will look lame in a minivan. Fuck that. I am lame and IDGAF. I’d rock a minivan if they were available electric. I only have 1 kid, but a van is like a driving swiss army…

My neighbors 2 doors down had a Yukon before they even had their first kid. By the time they had their second and the first was a toddler they got rid of the Yukon and replaced it with an Odyssey. I imagine they finally came to grips with the reality that minivans are far superior vehicles for suburban families with…

Vulture Capitalism will ruin everything good before we kill it off. 

A lot of these vehicles are overpriced for what you get, the Hornet is a neat little car but the MSRP is at least $5K too high to start off and rapidly goes off the rails, the PHEV is just insanely priced for what you get.

Gonna vote for the humble station wagon. I’ve done several cross country trips, but the best ones were done in a wagon.

If we had listened to Jimmy Carter, worked on efficiency, occasionally put on a sweater when it got cold instead of jacking up the heat 50 years ago, instead of following reagan’s “fuck it, burn everything and crank the AC” policy and all the GOP policies of ignoring the climate ever since, can you imagine how much…

In my 40+ years in the workforce I’ve witnessed countless times when the very rumor of layoffs results in the best heading out the door first because they are highly marketable. The competent and “loyal” employees then go through an emotional roller coaster where they try to kiss up to management while destroying…

Exactly. I work for a paycheck on the bad days, and because I love what I do on the good days. I’m not going to be a cheerleader for the company because I’m FORCED to be.

Maybe its because I am in a bad mood today. Maybe its because I am now a middle aged male. I am not at company number 9 in my career. I spent well over two decades in the tech industry and now work at an older established financial firm. If I could retire today I would. None of the companies I worked for really care…