Also interesting, no FCA vehicles. Though that’s probably because they were dumped as soon as the warranty was up.

Can you give me an example of the type of anti-Russian BS you have faced? I am asking genuinely, not to mock you. My wife came here at the age of 10 in the mid 90's and has lived in the Detroit area the whole time. She has never mentioned experiencing any anti-Russian or Immigrant sentiment in her personal life.

Same boat. I can’t tell the author or OP how they should feel, but my wife and her friends haven’t experienced anything like that. I recognize that a lot of Russians are great people (some are douchebags, but that’s kind of an everywhere thing), but their government sucks so badly. I can compartmentalize, and I’d like…

My wife is Russian-American and never once has she felt any form of discrimination or any sort of threat because of it. I have also seen zero media coverage thus far about any sort of anti-Russian movements in this country. This is much ado about nothing.

“Young Soviet-Americans have looked on as “Russia” undeniably becomes a bad word in the press”

This story is my story too, and that facebook group has just been a lifeline for so many of us. It’s truly impossible, I think, for people outside of this group to understand us. I know it sounds like a bunch of white people complaining over nothing, and I don’t think any of us believe we are somehow more threatened…

holy moly - that mark guy with the Q7... didn’t REALLY show in the original article, but the picture with him and the Q7 - I thought that was a A7 at first! goodness... I concede, he might be someone who really needs an SUV...

I think the non car people heeded our advice better than the car people who had grandiose aspirations for some magic-bullet clown car that can fit an entire herd inside a sporty two door. Non car people accept the reality that they cannot buy a brown, manual, diesel, wagon Miata, because these people do not want such…

The military will break your vehicle purchasing common sense. Take a look at any given lemon lot.

My whole family fits in there.. am I missing something?

Life’s too short to drive boring cars. It gets shorter in a mustang though.

“I wanted a BMW 7 series but got a Jetta instead”

This. This guy makes zero sense. he’s $17k over a $12K budget with the mustang. there isn’t a car on that list that isn’t $20k over his budget.

I had a small one in a rear facing seat and another in a front facing when I had my coupe. It’s actually pretty easy when you move the passenger seat forward enough and put the rear-facing there.

Hmm. Suggested a Cayenne. She got a Q5.

Budget: $8,000 to $12,000

“Hey, I need a car that’s family friendly”

That’s perhaps good for some things, but the REAL test of autonomous driving would be somewhere in the middle of the country, such as Texas, Kansas, Colorado, or the like, where roads aren’t paved, more than cars are on the roads, conditions can change in a flash, and even GPS isn’t much good...

I knew there would be at least one of you.

This is a cute take.