Oh. My. Goodness. I just imaged searched that thing. I need bleach for my eyes.

My wife’s ‘12 Focus has the same transmission. I’ve noticed it’s “jerkier” for her than me. The only difference is driving style. My wife likes to idle forward, then gently give the car gas. I plant my foot and go. Have you noticed similar behavior?

...What? I’ve driven both a tiny Toyota Corolla and a huge Dodge Ram 4x4 through deep snow. The size of the vehicle has nothing to do with it. If you drive like a moron, you spin; it doesn’t matter if you have 4WD or a big car. Don’t drive like a moron.

The Focus is like $2k more expensive, has more room, and gets only 1 mpg less. So, yeah, I don’t know why you’d get a Fiesta, either. (Except for the ST, which is a fun little pocket rocket.)

You and your roommate don’t know how to drive in the snow.

What stigma is attached to small cars?

The rear window on a late-model Ford Fusion/Mondeo sedan gets a lot of crud on it when it rains. It really could use a rear wiper.

Counterpoint: A retractable leash, when set to the “locked” position, is essentially an adjustable-length lead that lets you have multiple lengths at your disposal.

Yeah, I got a 72-month loan at 1.9% for a brand new Fusion. Just made my 36th payment, and at 50k miles, I’m pretty sure it’s not halfway to being “worn out.”

Now, if you take a 72-month loan at 10%, you’re an idiot.

I honestly don’t understand how my high school economics class could spend 4-6 weeks teaching the basics of household budgeting, credit, etc. but no other high school could be bothered.

I totally see your point, but not everyone wants to drive around in a $500 piece of shit.

No, you “get” far more energy out of petroleum fuels than it costs to get them out of the ground—that’s why it’s so hard to find alternative fuels.

The twisting thing doesn’t work for clingstone peaches. At. All. At least, that’s my experience. All it does is smash the peach halves into pulp.

It costs more energy to create a pound of hydrogen than is contained in the pound of hydrogen. It is very inefficient. That’s one of the reasons Musk says it’s “silly.”

Beyond that, however, is the fact that hydrogen—since its molecules are so small—is very difficult to transport. You lose a lot of hydrogen simply due…

The iPhone uses orders of magnitude more energy than the Nokia, you dimwit.

ICBMs are to be used for a first (or retaliatory) strike.

My daily driver is silver, because it doesn’t show dirt. My Mustang is grey, because I wanted my sorts car to be understated and evil-looking.

Sedans are unsafe in bad weather? Whaaaaaaaa?

Fitting with the long tradition of the Accord being one of the only even remotely engaging mid-size sedans you can buy...

Losing photos wasn’t the issue; all the photos are still on Photobucket. The issue is that 3rd party hosting has disappeared unless you pay $400/year, which broke forum threads across the Internet.