Do millennials have a better perspective on life or do they really want frivolous stuff like diamonds and fancy cars and just say they don’t because they can’t afford it? For the planet, I kinda hope it’s the former.

A millennial misspells millennial. How ironic, symbolic, and meta.

Subaru’s take on Active Lifestyle.

Most Europeans do drive on the left side of the road. Only England, Japan, Australia, and some other Commonwealth countries drive on the right.

This is how the Japanese think of Europeans.

My gut reaction to this is the same as Bill Clinton getting a BJ in the White House. What is the point of being an engineer on the Corvette if you can’t do stupid stuff with it? My reflected reaction is that both took stupid and magnified it to reckless. This is why we can’t have stupid stuff anymore.

Or with a little perspective, who cares? This affects no one but the royal family and the remoras that make their living off them.

What’s to say that young people who grew up with earphones haven’t adapted to not hearing their surroundings? Or that the newly deaf are already adapted? Should someone with an ear infection not drive? What if their car heater is broken so they are wearing ear muffs? My point is that once we accept driving without…

The average deaf person is probably more aware of their surroundings than a sighted person with headphones. Heck, probably more aware than the average sighted person period. My point is that while driving with headphones may not be a good idea it is hard to argue that it should be illegal if it is widely accepted that…

Deaf people can drive.

And deaf people can legally drive, so there’s that.

B-J auctions - old fat boomers with ‘60s restomods. BaT auctions - Gen-Xers with 70s / 80s European and Japanese imports. I’m starting a Gen-Z / Millenial car auction site for 2001 Civic automatics.

I would 86 the Toyobarus and substitute the ND Miata. Possibly the only sportscar ever that reversed the scourge of age bloat.

I never said it was a good deal. I just said people should be free to make their own bad decisions.

Sure someone could run over me in a giant SUV. That keeps me awake! If you compute the probability of an alert driver actually dying in a crash it is pretty darned small. But if that’s the way I go out so be it.

Drive up was back roads. Drive home was flat out 80mph down I-75. Car ran like a top. At no time did I feel UNSAFE!

There really is no defense for an auto “journalist” to not research a simple fact about Prius in an article about Prius.

Someone at GM accumulates enough power to try something new. With enough momentum they get it into production and it starts to pull marketing dollars from other programs/divisions. New things are hard to sell and service so the dealers get upset. Soon the long knives come out. R&D, support, and marketing dollars are…

Up to now it has been 4xi.

GM has periodically experimented with innovative design. Corvair air-cooled rear engine, Tempest rope drive, Toronado FWD V8, Fiero mid engine, EV1 electric, Volt hybrid. They spend millions to finally get it right and then the next CEO cancels the program. The only exception I can think of is the fiberglass Corvette.