While I’d like to think it’s a simple, stick, sporty car like the Miata (because I have one), I have to ask: what car are the kids obsessed with nowadays? Because that seems to be what drives nostalgia and determines the classics. That said:

Wow, you sure were right. And they politicized it at lightning speed, too. 

Certainly rich in irony.

I have an irrational desire to own one of these. When I’m time-killing on CL I always look. Having one of these things would be the ultimate stealth camper/paddleboarding rig. Park it anywhere, room to change, space for a bed, and no one would give it a second look. 

I don’t know if this crash will get politicized, but my big fear is that the Trump folks will use the news coverage of this tragedy as cover to do all kinds of evil shit behind the scenes and hope that the media don’t have the bandwidth to expose it. For example, don’t miss out on their just announced plans to…

You think Porschophiles look down on the 924? I can only imagine the distain they’ll have for redneck-built models rolling off the assembly line in Alabama.

Fox News is going to get ahold of this story, twist it completely out of context, and start ranting that the Apollo program was all Woke DEI bullshit and a national disgrace because all the astronauts were women’s underwear-wearing transvestites.

Not at all, my friend! I said “tend” to lean. I’m a car guy and I — as most of us do — have some crazy ideas about what’s cool. But in this case I was just trying to contemplate the mostly negative Jalop reaction vs this car’s success in the mainstream market.

Thank YOU for taking such precious time of YOUR day to to teach us all about brainwashing. I guess this is one of those “it takes one to know one” situations, eh?

I live in a big retirement area in SWFL and it kills me to see all the 60 and 70 year olds walking/riding around with their Pink Floyd, Prince, Rolling Stones, and even Metallica shirts on. 

I agree that people want nice CUVs/SUVs but I also think that buying into an EV and the changes that it brings is a big leap and not everyone wants to make that $65K bet. Easing into the EV world with a $30K car is a lot more palatable to many.

I once came out to my Tacoma in a parking lot and someone had left a bag of McDonalds trash in the bed. Was I a victim of a hate crime?

Exactly. If it was in fact “throwing his heart” and misconstrued as a nazi salute, he could have been out there the next days apologizing and promising not to make that gaff again. But what does he do? He sends a tweet making nazi jokes and then storms Europe pushing alt-right hatered and telling Germans that it’s…

Well, it will make the assholes easier to spot.

On behalf over every Prius driver that’s ever been tailgated by an asshole in a bro-dozer, and on behalf of every EV driver that’s ever been inconvenienced by a jerk parking their Mo-par noisemaker in an EV charging spot, and on behalf of every driver that’s ever had to choke on some douchebag’s rolled coal, I say…

To some degree, maybe. But in your situation walking down a dark road with a gas can only to pull out your wallet in some sketch gas station is just as dangerous as being in a similar situation in an EV. If someone’s going to kill or rob you, they’re going to do it either way.

Agreed. VW faces an uphill struggle not because of the EVs that they’re trying to sell (though the price/value for a lot of them is iffy); the reason VW has a problem is because over the past 35 years virtually every car buyer has owned a VW or known a VW owner and every conversion about these experiences involves…

How’s that? I could buy 2 Ford Mavericks for the price of one typical F-150. 

I would just love to sit in at a board meeting at Chevron or Exxon-Mobile and listen to the execs talk about their desire to spend billions more to extract new sources of oil that they could refine and then sell at lower profit margins. I bet they’re all just giddy about that idea... /s

Unless you’re a massive government agency, how in the hell can you get $2.3B in the hole? Either there’s incredibly stupid management involved, or it’s some criminal scheme to bilk finds from everywhere.