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There are so many things to be weary of...

You can’t really lay this at Porsche’s feet though. This one is on CART for outlawing materials advancement of CF (that every respectable series now uses).

I don’t know if this is a Ruby Rhod reference or not, but a star just in case.

Having ordered candy and things from Japan, I can verify everything you say here.

I cannot yet vouch for those (though having had other similar things (green tea Pocky) I can imagine), but the strawberry Kit Kats!!! Holy strawberry flavored Quick (if Quick/Nesquick were actually as good as it was when you were a kid), they are crazy good. You should try them. And then send me a case at low cost.

Now suppose you wanted to “add” more power and features such as cruise control...

Counterpoint: Japanese Kit Kats. Expensive as the dickens(?) to get ahold of, but MontanaJordanSampras-esque winning percentage.

This. This is enough. Kudos, good Sir.

With R top left and 1st bottom left, I would constantly be afraid of money-shifting every time I drove. Which isn’t a concern as I will never have that kind of worry to deal with, but nevertheless.

Those are both statements and they carry no weight of fact, which is what you seem to be implying though you did not say.

Neither link is a study about how backing in is safer. They are news articles with various links (which I followed) which discuss the idea. If you really think that is a valid source upon which to base an opinion, that’s great. I don’t. The news reports all sorts of stuff, doesn’t make it true.

The link you provided was to an organization supported by insurance companies and companies that use big trucks (oil companies, UPS, Coke, etc). And they stated (with no links, no support for the claim) that the IIHS (another insurance supported group) did a study and found backing in to be safer. That is a lot of…

1. I may have less visibility in reverse in general, granted. However if I am in a parking spot, I can turn my head to the sides. The longer hood means I spend more time next to cars and can only see forward for both a longer period of time and a longer distance. With my mirror I can see directly behind me and I have…

I didn’t see the post with the link as Kinja didn’t tell me it existed. My apologies. And I have done research and found nothing that indicates that your claim is the case.

And your reasoning works for your preference, that’s great (not sarcasm). But if someone was more comfortable the other way around, why would that be an issue? The differences between the two are not drastic in most cases.

And that’s fair enough. But they should rattle off opinions as opinions and not as facts, that’s all.

I appreciate the layout you’ve provided, though you see the length it took for anyone to actually say anything approaching this rather than just saying “it’s safer,” as if it were a fact. However, this still isn’t objective. And again, I’m not asking for objectivity, I’m saying that it’s not objectively safer, it is…

Maybe 1/4 of it had anything to do with gender. And as the OP included that in her post, I didn’t find it out of line. Especially considering there have been a number of posts on Jalopnik about being more inclusive in car culture. But fine, I could have left it out.

No, on both counts. But charming sentiment and grammar.