It’s impossible to to really study, but I’d say that has more to do with actual crash safety than crash prevention. Cars in 1990 were built a lot different. Airbags were only really in luxury cars, the structures were weaker, and the load dissipation on cars was worse. Not to mention the terrible side-impact safety on…

You’re wrong. They’re asked to meet a standard, not to pass a test. The tests are used to see, with the limited resources available, if they meet this standard. Cheat devices are specifically designed to pass the tests without meeting the standards. It’s not even exploiting a loophole, it’s just flat-out cheating. The…

I’m surprised it didn’t go into limp-home mode doing this.

I’d assume they’re measuring the speed with GPS. Most speedometers aren’t very accurate in stock form. Even brand new cars often measure 5-10% out.

I like to call this the San Francisco merge. In gridlock traffic, you nose your car into the small gap between two cars in the other lane, start signalling once you’re halfway into their lane, then you give them a little wave to thank them for letting you in, even though all they could do is let you in or crash into…

What? You mean gas isn’t going to be cheap forever? What am I supposed to do with my 8 MPG full-size SUV that I use to drive only myself to my office job every day, with the occasional trip to Home Depot for a bag of screws, that my lifestyle absolutely required?

So, only the 250 GTO counts then?

One of my good friends has one, and he drove a 90's-era Accord before that. Says he often forgets he’s not in his old Accord. They’re eerily similar to drive normally, apparently.

I guess electric SUVs would make the issue of gas prices negligible. My real issue with SUVs is more about their size, and less about their efficiency, though. They really weigh too much and sit to high off the ground to make it safe for any small car on the roads.

I’m sorry, but I didn’t realize all the SUVs on the road were driven by the 1%. Thank you for enlightening me.

Because people who buy M3s and GTIs aren’t putting my life at risk every time I try and pass them. Anyone who drives a compact car in city traffic knows this. The absolutely absurd height of SUVs right now makes me invisible when I’m beside them. You have to drive defensively, and you just get in the habit of getting…

Reverse (Shouldn’t this be neutral?): How much longer with the SUV craze last?

Neutral:

Finally, a movement I can get behind.

In the magical land of Canada, where the government doesn’t hate fun quite as much, and there’s only a 15-year import rule.

Vancouver? $30k? RWD?

Man, even a Spark costs nearly $30k to own for 5 years. Who’s spending this much money on the most basic of transportation? How does this market exist?

“Sorry, officer. My foot slipped off the clutch”

I wonder how well-preserved this is in that synthetic resin. Imagine, hundreds of thousands of years in the future, finding a perfectly-preserved Mercedes G-Class buried in the ruins of an ancient civilization.

Imagine wanting your YouTube channel to grow so much that you torch your own DeLorean just so you can be interviewed by a washed-up YouTuber like Ethan Klein.