Better is usually subjective when talking about cars. When I say 80's and 90's cars were better, I’m not talking about safety features. I just enjoy driving them more. I’m all for better safety features.

I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever criticized their ugly, boring, penalty box cars for being unsafe.

Cool, so we’re going to have way more expensive, heavy, flaky cars with more distracted drivers “in control” of them. Swell. Just swell.

Yup.
Learns driver survived that wreck, starts shopping Altimas.
See Altimas.
Accepts death.

All of the vices of a motorcycle, combined with all of the vices of a car, but none of the upsides.

By all means buy a BMW that’s out of warranty.

I’m not a “Miata is always the answer” kind of guy, but for $30K I’d need some real solid reasons to buy something as compromised as this instead. So, are there any?

I feel like I’m being blinded more and more frequently, from behind and in front.

Why was there not a amber rear turn signal law with this bill? 

I feel like debating the specifics of the dealer adds is the game. Every single dollar I’ve gotten knocked off of dealer adds has still resulted in me getting those dealer adds anyways.

To me there are 3 types of cars: appliances, “flings”, and forever cars. You don’t worry about miles on appliances; their whole purpose is to soak them up with minimal drama. You don’t worry about miles on flings because the whole point is to have as much fun as you can before the tab comes due. And you don’t worry…

Let me address the common complaints, one by one.

I live my life with the expectation that my coworkers, family, loved ones, friends, strangers, fellow drivers, my politicians, are selfish lazy assholes who couldn’t drive out of a paper bag. Is it judgmental? Yes. Is it hyperbole? Yes. But does it mean I have my ass covered when I need to? Does it mean I am able to…

Do NOT, and I repeat do NOT, get a Jeep Patriot (or Compass, ComPatriot?) As a winter beater. It is a BAD IDEA.

And for accuracy:

Came here to say the same. I presume it’s actually much larger, but with no scale reference, the proprtions are spot on Focus hatch with shitty body kit.

I’m weirdly in the same boat. The irrational part of my brain says that this seems like a great price for a cool, old-school SUV. But the logical part of my brain won’t stop shrieking about how this is a pile of old, out-of-warranty, British “engineering.”

so why the constant harping on a protest with a bunch of LARPers in costume?

“A) what law(s) prevent you from recovering your property and B) how would the police know you went and recovered it from a thief”

Once again:  ARTICLES LIKE THIS ARE WHY I VISIT THIS SITE.