I would, without owning a gun, be 100% in agreement with any gun group that made it their mission to be simply a gun safety organization. No politics, no us vs them bullshit. Just gun safety, which is something everyone needs to know.

Reasonable legislation?

This. I was raised with guns, and I attended NRA sponsored events as a child that centered around firearms safety. At 18 I was a “card-carrying member.” In 2008 I revoked my membership and seeing the radicalization begin, and I’ve been a vocal opponent of the NRA ever since.

It’s a shame most people are too…

No no no my friend. The NRA isn’t ‘silent’ on responsible gun control: they spend tens of millions ACTIVELY lobbying/bullying/threatening against every hint of responsible legislation.

Exactly. No wonder the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution declaring them to be a domestic terrorism organization this past Thursday.

NASCAR, an organization that makes major safety changes pretty much every time there is a high-profile death associated with racing, will now withdraw its support from the NRA, an organization that does jack fucking shit to improve any safety measures, and in fact calls for more lax standards, whenever there are…

Maybe if the NRA didn't move away from gun safety and responsible use to calling for the murder of brown people and liberals....

Its a common tactic taken by authoritarian organizations.

Srsly. Those guys will never be your friends. Get a “My Other Car is a G-Class” bumper sticker for the Corolla and bank that $30k, Brad. 

THIS. It ticks all the boxes.

The right answer is unquestionably a used Lexus LS or GS. A few year old GS 350 AWD F Sport is pretty nice looking.

Is it unique and cool in some way? Sure. Is it remotely reasonable to consider as a reliable, relatively affordable year-round daily driver? Not a chance.

If he just wants a cool hobby car to start conversation and drive to the airport once in a while, great, but that’s not at all what he asked for.

I mean, couldn’t *one* of you have given him a reasonable answer?  The only non-troll answer is the Acadia, and he literally said he had no use for an SUV.  I get that there’s a comedy element, but I thought there were supposed to be a few helpful suggestions?

In the US, even if they were plugging PURELY into a Coal fire plant, due to the efficiencies of modern power generation, the per mile CO2 emissions cost of this vehicle would be significantly lower than if it was maintaining its Petrol engine.

This is not new information, come on, leave the late 90's to early 2000's…

Came here to kvetch about the bloated rockers; thank you for saving me the time.

Maybe if they painted the skirt black instead of body color it would help?

Do you think giving it a matte black finish would help?

See you’re looking at it the wrong way. They didn’t ruin the Beetle, they created a source for more spare engines and transaxles for the Beetle!

They made about 21 million of then so there should be a few boxer ones left to enjoy, if that’s your fancy.

Because using an existing type 1 chassis eliminates the need to meet modern safety standards. This will probably be much, much lighter (and far more of a deathtrap) than a whole new car.