I paid $36k for a 2019 6-spd manual Alltrack with 1200 miles in 2021 (peak used car market). At 6000 miles the transmission AND starter failed. VW hassled me so badly over those repairs that I traded it in at 17k miles for an Ioniq 5 after yet another run-in with VW’s terrible service. I drove 3 different VW wagons…

Real “cities” rarely have subdivisions with HOAs unless it’s Texas (and condos obviously have them everywhere). It’s the suburbs where HOAs are commonplace.

THANK YOU! 🙌 You are the only other person here raising the safety issue. I work in medical device development & cannot believe this is legal or even acceptable to regulators *AND* insurors. The insurance companies will all have to contend with this regardless - both when insuring Teslas & when their non-Tesla clients…

Except that a Tesla with FSD can still injure/kill anyone it hits, even if they “just don’t buy a Tesla.”

No the difference is that we’re talking about a safety-critical, regulated industry, *not* consumer products like coffee makers. The FDA & European Medical Device Regulation typically requires medical devices that pose potential risks to be tested with a minimum of 15 actual end users per unique user group (whether…

Yes, my 2023 Ioniq 5 has one but I can’t upload any photos. Only some of the “pixels” are brake lights.

That was such a uniquely cool looking car when it came out in the 90s.

Anyone claiming that climate controls should just be set to one level & left alone doesn’t seem to understand that cars are literal greenhouses & subject to lots of variation in external conditions. It’s not like a house with large thermal mass to maintain consistency. I am *constantly* adjusting the heating/cooling…

I saw it at the car show recently and was even more disappointed. Completely uninteresting, kinda cheap looking, amd way too expensive.

I don’t think anyone is complaining about the *cost* of DEF itself... More likely is the reliability issues & functional bricking of a perfectly functional car that’s the issue. I owned a 2015 TDI Sportwagen & the DEF System failed, disabled the car, and had to be replaced entirely THREE TIMES in a span of 3 months…

😂 My car is primer grey (Ioniq5) & I love it. All my industrial designer friends like it too. Wish I could get it in that greenish/grey Toyota hospital scrubs color though.

I genuinely like those non-metallic putty colors. Like really really like them. Toyota & Audi have the best ones. 

My dream car in high school was the ultimate bitch bucket - a red VW Cabriolet with white convertible top...

This might be one of the dumbest comments I’ve ever received on the internet. Mrs. Trump? What are you even talking about? I’m a liberal by the way, that owned two TDIs, so I do know what I’m talking about.

VW manuals have always had REVERSE up and to the left of 1st but you have to push down on the stick to get into gear. 

You are way off in your dieselgate insinuation by about 2 decades. The efficiency of diesel (mileage & cost) helps make up for your soot spewing accusations as well. Not saying it’s a good price but your criticisms aren't really pertinent. 

The Exogenesis series from Octavia Butler. The Oankali are an indescribable, grotesque race that probably shouldn’t be given form. I can imagine every reader has a different vision of what they look like. That said, the human-Oankali hybrids would certainly make for fun SFX/CGI. 

Came here to see if Seveneves would get mentioned (and suggest it myself if not)! It would have to be a multi season series. The 3rd phase, where civilization is built upon a catapult ring of sorts would be the most challenging part to portray in its vastness but the rest of it was so visceral & plausible that it…

That's the whole point. 

A proper source doesn’t have to be from a “medical journal” but it does need to be peer-reviewed. If Cosmo is quoting a peer-reviewed study/ article/statistic then, OK... Still, it would be better to cite the original source on that case.