I think it would age a lot better if it didn’t start at $60,000. I don’t want special editions of it, I want accessible editions.

Need to replace the taxis with tuk tuks too

I wish more office buildings had a shower. There is zero chance I’ll bike to my Houston office if there isn’t a shower I can use once I arrive. 

Bold assumption that Americans are willing to adapt in the face of death/danger.

The good old struggle of park rangers and trash can lids - dealing with the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.

I also enjoyed “This vehicle has never been misused or taken off road” - I know what they mean, but isn’t off roading the proper use for these?

Trump’s businesses maxed out their H1B visas right before his previous admin put new limits on them. The GOP donors love cheap labor way too much for the GOP to actually do anything to take that away. They’ll just complain about immigration during campaign speeches and move on. 

That makes sense. Looking at a map, Santiago looks like it has the same issue the Los Angelas has here, where it sits in a valley below the mountains/near the ocean, so all of the smog gets trapped in the city.

Are those smog laws a local thing where you live? I thought most states capped emissions requirements at 25 years or had a classic vehicle loophole that let older vehicles like this operate outside normal emissions requirements.

This is one of those things where I wish we had a legal system that punished companies for lying, but I also have trouble feeling sympathy for anyone who thinks any version of a Durango is a collectable. At best, the engine will hold value, but the SUV carrying it around is pretty expendable. 

If I get to keep it forever for free, then I’d take one as a sacrificial option to learn how to mess with an engine and feel zero sympathy when I accidentally kill it. I’d feel bad ruining an old Corvette or something like that. An EcoSport? I can let my kids guide the process and who cares what happens. 

Monster truck. This is more for me than anyone else, but if every gets to drive one, then that means I do too. 

A comment above explains that it is not a bonus in the American sense for an Austrian salary, so potentially just a bad translation there. However, there are employee contracts in America that include a pre-determined end of year bonus. I have a guaranteed bonus that can increase with certain metrics, but still have a…

This probably isn’t even the dumbest reaction from a sitting Republican. MTG’s call for violence might be the most dangerous, but a senator retweeting a prop from Star Wars is far more stupid.

Seems like the dealer paid [$4500 X cars leased] for a bunch of advertising that generated a good amount of foot traffic while also getting unwanted cars off the lot. 

Exactly why I didn’t get a Sienna at my last purchase. The moderate gains in MPGs and potential at reliability simply wasn’t worth the rest of the hassle. Especially since our cars only do ~5000 miles a year and we keep up on maintenance. Helping someone look for a Rav4 killed my interest in ever returning to our…

The Armada/QX-80 is the car I’ve long had an irrational love for. They’re big, stupid, and inefficient at almost everything. Hardly any different than buying a truck just to use it like a sedan. Doesn’t stop me from enjoying the hell out of cruising around when I get one for a rental. Thought really hard about picking…

Having driven both this and the Jetta as rentals, I really wish the market had some level of rational purchasing and went with the far superior Jetta. At least my main Enterprise guy knows I prefer a good sedan so he can “upgrade” other people to these inferior compact CUVs.

The best Crosstrek she can afford. Then she can head up state in winter for up statey things with her potentially wealthy bosses/coworkers in this new roll. 

I still hear people complain about how cars used to be safer because they used more steel. A lot less often than I heard that in 90s, but it still leaves me dumbfounded every so often. They’re not even all boomers, either.