Am old British car will always feel old. If you refurbish an old German car it will much more modern.

This has been my daily companion for 20 years. Comfortable, fast enough, great handling, economical, and safe-ish. With A/C and a 5 speed it’s the perfect vintage car.

It would have been ok except for the genetic experiments necessary to shrink 8 year olds down to 3 feet tall.

Don’t you love how they counted the dashboard as storage space?

You do realize he is not from the US, right? No one from outside the US would call Michigan the Midwest, but we do.

You can have my Lotus when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Isn’t that the proper response?

So you can do inter-city public transportation (hugely expensive and not cost competitive with airlines or cars) or improve intra-city transportation (hugely expensive and disruptive). Neither one is going to eliminate the biggest problem = person-miles of commuters from the suburbs to the city. Investing in…

Because they were dirt cheap, economical to drive, super useful, and tough as cockroaches. Sometimes a truck is a work vehicle and not a lifestyle.

Automated seatbelts became popular in the 80s with automakers. Not so much the public.

Fuel is ridiculously cheap (and getting cheaper), partly because we subsidize oil exploration, extraction, and supply security. This makes commuting cheap compared to the alternatives. Many people are willing to sacrifice 2 hours of their day for a big house, good schools, and safety. Price fuel correctly and people…

Unions, gambling, and politics always attract the best of the human race.

The 80s/90s Impalas had no style whatsoever but in the 50s GM was a fashion house not a car-maker. I guess 60s Chevy found the happy medium.

Solstice/Sky were bad attempts to copy the early 90's sportscar craze initiated by the Miata. In typical GM manner, they focus-grouped and product-slotted themselves into an underwhelming product. When it didn’t sell well immediately they cut bait and ran.

Cheaper is not better. I have 9 cars and even I recognize that we should start pricing oil commensurate with its external cost to the world.

One of the driving factors of bigger wheels is that the vehicles keep getting fatter, requiring bigger brakes to stop all that blubber. Bigger brakes require bigger rotors, requires bigger wheels. Stop the madness!

Quantitatively is literally the wrong word.

Yeah, the only thing Idiocracy got wrong was the date. 

Touch the cars was the best take ever.

Let’s not bring reason into this! Well said.

I own 8 cars, all of which are garaged. Who wants to get in a cold / wet / dirty car all the time?