Yea, I think that if the interior color was matched with an exterior color that usually isn’t allowed, that could be cool. Or something like GTI seats in a standard Golf.  

Because its essentially a Charger and both cars still sell well. 

Yeah, have to agree. In this particular 300's case, it just looks like a cheap junkyard repair. Definitely not cool.

Answer to the question is no, in general they are not cool.

Unless its some unasked for free upgrade to a part from a higher trimline, then maybe it would be cool.
But when its something wacky and poor quality like this, definitely not cool.

Years later when you sell the car you have to convince the next buyer (if they…

This has crumple zones and front airbags, and is probably just as safe structurally as any other car of similar size sold in the US, and safer than those from 25 years ago.

I am sure many of us are driving “older” cars that would not do half as well... watching the front crashes where the cabin does not deform, and heck the windshield survived... For reference here is a 1997 civic

And yet this car is MUCH safer than the ‘84 Jetta GLI that I put 200K miles on. And that car was probably “safer” than the ‘89 Ford Escort that I had a 65mph T-bone crash in and walked away with a bruised shoulder. From forcing the door open after the crash. It’s also in another universe from the Triumph Spitfire I…

Hmmm. Perhaps I’m too laissez faire, and certainly the actual sensors involved may show a more serious outcome for vehicle occupants, but superficially, those crash tests don’t look nearly as bad as plenty of others I’ve seen. Having lived most of my life driving vehicles *without* side airbags, it’s not as if I…

“If you haven’t heard of the Ka before, you can be forgiven. It’s a teeny little subcompact that, for a while, was only available in Brazil but has since expanded to be sold in India, Mexico, South Africa, Argentina, and Europe.”

Having a bad day?

This. It’s like competing with the Chinese. Uber and Lyft drove taxi services into the ground. It’s a race to the bottom. 

Thats an uncalled for cheap shot. I don’t think the author is a regular writer here. He is just a guy trying to make some money while he completes his schooling. The blame for problems in the article and the misleading headline fall on Jalopnik editors (or lack thereof). This man trying to earn an honest living…

Some people need to get together to make an app-based ride hailing company that runs itself as a driver-owned cooperative. Seriously, it could work.

But you never tried to do it for an actual living. :-) 

TLDR: Author is a young adult who doesn’t understand how taxes and income is calculated.

This is what taxi drivers (including myself, on Jalopnik even) said when Uber and Lift came and destroyed our industry. Why are taxis more expensive that either of those two “not transportation companies”? Because cab drivers for our company ACTUALLY made $25/hour. Because we were driver owned and so the driver’s…

What always amaze me is that they have managed to offload what should be the single biggest expense of running a taxi service - the CARS to the suckers who work for them! And yet they have still managed to blow through epic amounts of money with staggering losses for years and years.

The labor force is a market where employers have nearly all of the power except in very particular situations. The reserve army of labor (the unemployed) works to depress wages on behalf of the capitalists. “Oh, you won’t do this shit job for peanuts? Unemployed Johnny over there will! Fuck you!”

Another group of Silicon Valley VC dipshits looking to “disrupt” another industry ends up making a shit ton of money at the expense of the working poor. Again. Nothing else to see here.

Thanks for sharing this, Kevin. Every Lyft driver I spoke with (when I was still traveling for work) had a similar story, but a still-rosy picture about how much they made. Once in particular stood out, not because his story was unique, but because I started actually doing the math while listening.