Some of the pockets do have a heavy elastic chain-thingy holding the top closed and it’s possible to “snap” them hard enough to be startling to the person whose spine is two inches away. I imagine that could be enough to start a back-and-forth, though as I mentioned the particular catalyst is pretty much moot in a…

The way this article frames the incident is kind of dumb: “a guy got a bloody face just because he placed something in a seatback pocket”. 

To me, it was more that the author is a sucker for detailing jobs. 

I hit NP expecting to be in the vast minority. Cool to see the results.

“Satisfying” is such an interesting term for a car metric. Is this the same as getting a JDPOWAH “satisfaction” award? Are we saying that people are “satisfied” (as in, yeah, I got what I expected, I’m satisfied, two-and-a-half stars), or satisfied (as in, post-raising-the-X-Wing-Yoda grunts).

You buried your own rebuttal in the story. There is more to define “luxury” than badge.  

Probably lens distortion more than anything. I find these dashcams with the fisheye view terrifying to watch in general. Everything seems like it is flying by at weird angles. 

I got on a plane in Chicago Tuesday night — it was “only” -4F at the time.

Thanks for being the pedant so I don’t have to.

I’d say both sides are being pretty Cavalier with their reliability claims.

The Euro-owned SIXT rental car company recently opened an O’Hare branch and they gave me one of these just a couple of weeks ago for $2/day more than a Kia. I can’t really call it a “meh” car — nice looking, decent German handling, enough zip in sport mode to make for very confident merges — but it was definitely “meh …

Extend this to an entire country, and you have Japan.

WHAT is the deal with the audio on this clip? Not the in-car audio, obviously.   — “Dude, is that your stomach?” -- is somebody at Jalopnik using some copy program to grab clips and leaving the microphone on during the transfer?

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three all rights do make a left. 

I’d like the French horn trills from the “Overture” from Tommy when entering Sport Mode. Not least because they used to use it behind the US30 Dragstrip radio commercials (Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!)

That’s some next-level metrics. 

I’m not sure when the “golden age” for any marque had much to do with whether they were making a profit or not.  

Man, I love that painting.  

My Brother In Law had one of these back in the day and I drove it quite a lot. A pretty nice car, as much a sleeper as its marketing promised. He took good care of his and it still had disintegrated by 2005. Not sure I’d trust this one to last a week.  

At least he didn’t say “buttered”