I’d go for the Euro version. 

I’m 41. Number of times I’ve turned on AM radio… three. Times I did so on purpose: zero. AM Emergency Broadcasts don’t matter if no one listens to ancient single channel audio tech. I have never heard an AM Emergency Broadcast. Might as well mandate Sunny Skies so we can communicate with smoke signals.

Jesus fucking christ do any of them come without a goddamn tv stapled to the middle of the dash?!?!

I would say that my recommendation would be for the Hatchback versions.  They cost a bit more, but they handle life a bit better.  It sucks having a sedan and finding a good deal on a TV and finding it won’t fit in the car.

Fuck Musk, the sooner that POS fades into history, the better.

There are millions of high school and university students

I can understand it. I’m 35, been driving since I was 16, so near 20 years. Riding shotgun for 15 years before it. I am keenly aware of the changes in driving behavior over the last 5 years or so, ESPECIALLY post COVID.

The operative word was “see.”

You see more agitated behavior because of all of the cameras. Not despite all the cameras

I’ve noticed that kids don’t really pay attention to traffic while they are passengers any more. Every second they are in the car, they are on their phones. After 15 years, suddenly they are expected to understand the patterns in traffic, when to be cautious, what to look out for, and they don’t have any experience to…

There is a whole mountain of nuance to this, but yes, part of parenting is forcing kids to do things they don’t want to do when you firmly believe it will benefit them in their development to becoming functional adults. Nearly every parent forces their kids to do something almost every day. Eating vegetables, putting…

As an “elder millennial”, I still find driving the part of my day that gets rid of my anxiety. But i don’t have to drive in terrible traffic every day...

Also... the fact that it’s wrapped but still has overcooked eggs instead of headlights gives me zero confidence in the quality of said wrap job. This screams “I have no money but wanted a Porsche.” Maybe if this was a manual it would be worth saving, but ND for an auto.

As safe as cars are these days, I’m a little surprised. Back in my Day(tm), we had to figure out how to drive cars with no airbags, traction control, ABS, pre-collision braking, or cross-traffic alert, using MapQuest directions to a Limp Bizkit concert taped to the dash while operating a manual transmission in the…

Wraps scare me, especially on older cars. Who’s to say it wasn’t crashed and he pulled panels from a junk yard, then wrapped it? This is no dice, even at that price. Tiptronic also kills the deal. 

Normally when faced with these kinds of things, I just move on to another store, but I was feeling a bit spicy that day and wanted to pin this guy down  with the actual regulations. Also, I got a blog out of it. 

Opposite. Many LE vehicles are run 24 hours between the 2 12 hour shifts (save for Sheriffs/Servers/Chiefs), and the evening folks often spend less time at the station/dispatch. You might have 15 officers rotating about 4-5 vehicles... and those include “spares”. We did often about 90-120 miles per day per car but…

Shocked I tell you.

And charge people for the privilege.

I’m a parent of a pair of Gen Zs.