I hate you

It’s a shame your parents remembered to remove you from the car...

Since you are focussed on powerplants, let me tell you this. Over 60% of power generation in US is from fossil fuels. So even if your EV is not polluting while its driven, its pollution was already released in some distant power plant.

It’s an old, hard-to-kill trope like a lot of the Boomer Safety Spaces are. They need these as they’re dying off so they can continue on without guilt for the damage they’ve done to our world and left for the future generations to clean up, but not without their dogged resistance until the bitter end. That way they…

2nd Gear: VAGs reluctance to go fully electric unless forced to is probably due to them having trouble figuring out how to make unreliable electric motors since a big part of their brand identity is the gamble of being stuck on the side of the road.

I think my point was pretty well expressed in my first comment. People will pay more for flashy, less functional doors, but not for run-of-the-mill normy doors, so if BMW (and/or Alpina) are going to supe up a fucking minivan, then why change out the handy sliders for normy doors?

Yes they do, but what’s your point?

A particularly good point is that sliding side doors are infinitely more utilitarian and useful than swing doors, so unless those back doors do something uselessly cool simply to show off the buyer’s wealth, like swing up ala the Model X, fuck BMW (and Alpina) for not putting sliders on there.

It does, but it doesn’t. You’ll still be incurring registration fees, plus sales and excise taxes on every car you lease each year. Not to mention the constant inquiries into your credit report as they need to initiate a new lease every 4 months.

You’re probably never going to see this, but for anyone else reading your comment here goes:

The US doesn’t do it that way because they aren’t foolish enough to condense their defenses into 1 easily destroyed point. They separate the guns from the missiles operationally so they won’t interfere with one another, but also strategically so if 1 gets hit the other has a good chance of still functioning. Russians…

It took me 6.5 years, but I finally found this little gem of an article, and I see that you’re still relatively active around here (at least you were within the month, anyway) so I’ll give you the answer you were looking for: Sort of. The entire Navy calls them “R2D2 with a Hard-on”.

Yes, but probably only because of the possibility of cross-contamination by being sliced on the same equipment that contaminated meat is.

That’s when you sell it to the next pie-eyed convert and get yourself the Bolt. Which is exactly what my BiL did.

Is that pronounced Fast-Ass Golf or Fast Ass-Golf?

If I followed your directions, I’d flood my kitchen with butter since there is no amount of butter that gives me pause.

Have we seen one with a NA sized license plate yet? That’s probably going to look even more hideous.

You freak out over the truth about CRVs and RAV4s and then espouse the merits of a car that is objectively more interesting than either of them. You’re an odd duck. Do you honestly consider the CX5 to be in the same boring, gave-up-on-life category as the CRV and RAV4? I mean, they’re not super far off, but at least…

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I think the difference is that if they aren’t offering appliances in the colors at the time, the colors really aren’t defining the age. If appliance makers had jumped on that hyper color trend instead of just clothing makers, then I’d agree it was the 80's signature colors, but they didn’t. They sold boring white…