This seems like an accurate take to me. I’ve driven a Festiva and an iQ on multi-day road trips*, because I am a masochist who loves small cars. A Fit seems like it would be a step up!

We bought a new Fit before they were even available at the dealerships in the USA in 2006—and have owned it since. It is a great car, reliable, reasonably zippy, great MPG, roomy for it’s size. All things are relative and I have had some pretty tiny and tinny cars, I would not call the Fit terrible on the highway, but…

“it’s appalling to see the bootlicking jingoist poppy garbage that country has turned into. It’s a damn shame, honestly. I’d sooner take a hundred opportunistic marketing folks who accidentally plug into the zeitgeist before another Toby Keith”

Isn’t the HR-V just the Fit with a little lift and plastic cladding around the wheel wells? 

I own a Fit and I’ve taken it on road trips that long. It’s not a problem... it drives decently well and is fast enough.

I have a friend who was born in Senegal, he thinks it’s really weird how much we Americans show the flag.

My mother taught me to drive.

You speak like you’ve never had to drive a 80s or 90s shitmobile with an auto.

Manuals can make boring cars fun.

My diesel manual Chrysler Voyager? If that had a four-speed auto, I wouldn’t touch it with a 20-foot pole. With the five-speed? It’s epic!

A MANUAL Fusion?!

I think this really goes to the heart of two different strands of car culture. If you’re fascinated by rarity for rarity’s sake, yep, rare manual versions of otherwise mundane cars are a treat, and a balm for the jalop soul. If you’re into cars that are somehow special in a sense that’s not just about rarity, but…

I know they’re unpopular as a ‘fake wagon’s, but lifted AWD cladded-wagons are a pretty surprisingly capable category and definitely my pick.

Remember the old days when you actually had to have real money to start and run business? Yeah, me neither.

That’s fine. I don’t want any ‘apps’ in my car. Functional software is sufficient.

I booked DMX at a show in Atlanta around... I want to say it was Halloween 2011. Anyway, I didn’t really know what to expect. At that point in his career, DMX was something of a novelty name to add to a bill. Our other acts that night were all pretty standard EARMILK fare, and our audience was probably just old enough…

DMX and Prince Phillip were always so competitive. From rhymes to stage presence to funerary transportation.

I'm surprised nobody had mentioned the Hagerty YouTube channel. Absolutely killer production value, and some of my favorite presenters. Sam Smith, Matt Farah, Jason Cammisa, etc. 

Regular Car Reviews. There are other car channels on youtube?

It should be AT LEAST as expensive and difficult to get a driver’s license in the US as it is in Germany. Real driver training or you can just stay home, walk, or take a bus. And I don’t give a shit about the poors. They are fucked anyway.

Everyone thinks the BRZ needs a turbo. It does, but what it really needs is a rear hatch and maybe some T-tops.