I sold my ‘03 Civic Hybrid to a nice guy from Kansas a few years ago, he deadheaded (he’s a pilot) to my state to pick it up and destroyed it against a deer on his way home.

It’s the American way.

It’s a goofy product, a goofy price and an irrational seller - you’d have to be irrational to pay this kind of money for it used, let alone six figures for a new one.

This right here. This is the bizarre, stream-of-consciousness circumlocution that goes round and round the issue without ever landing on the basic, common sense answer. Cars are too fast. Speed limits are real. No one actually enforces the speed limits in the first place. Etc, etc.

So what?  What about it?

I’m perfectly happy with investors’ limp dicks if what gets them hard is massive artificially inspired consumption.

I’d buy it, keep the Yaris, and turn right around and sell the motorhome again at the same price.

An obvious solution, one that doesn’t take place overnight of course, would be to move more manufacturing onshore.  Less container traffic in Long Beach if the consumer goods are manufactured in Cincinatti.

I’m thinking if it was more of an industry than it is, you’d get evolve a streamlined process that could refurbish a car faster and more affordably than the current one-guy-in-a-shop approach.

Republicans who stockpiled them last year.

I’ve been saying for some time now that a growth industry would be major refurbishment. Instead of replacing cars, what about renewing them? It would avoid massive amounts of raw material processing and its associated environmental damage, and give owners the opportunity to upgrade existing vehicles to like new or…

Jeez. That’s insane.

There’s almost certainly more to the story than is actually printed.  They may have heard more narrative about the driver than we’ve been made privy to, perhaps germane to any legal case but for prejudicial reasons isn’t being made public.  Like, the driver has a history of moving violations, friends describe him as a…

Why, exactly, are there no maximum speed governors on American cars? We can buy cars that are capable of joining the 200MPH club directly off the lot. In a country where the highest posted speed limit is 85, wouldn’t a mandated 100MPH governor in all cars be reasonable?

Anti-dive in a trailing link? I can’t see how that’s even possible unless...

With no pedals, there’s no way to classify this as an e-bike.

My understanding is that arched frame members do a decent job of transferring shocks from end of the frame to the other without jolting the rider quite so much.  So it’s probably not just a design but function choice, though I don’t really understand the mechanics of it myself.  I’d go with straight tubes just to keep…

wink-wink, nudge-nudge

There are dumber cars to buy but I can’t think of one right now. There are dumber ways to spend $50,000, but...

I’m kinja’d so I’m going to borrow RDG’s coattails: