Wow, I’m humbled that my E90 suggestion got picked - and out of the greys too :) Any chance someone could approve me so I’m not grey anymore?

But I think anything that keeps evolving with newer versions/etc makes for a bad forever car.

My ‘09 E90 M3. The last naturally-aspirated M3, just enough tech but not too much, looks great and sounds great. It’s peak BMW (things went badly downhill after that) and supremely practical. It’s basically the perfect car.

Nah. I hate mint ice cream and I think strawberry ice cream is awesome. Yet if I were appointed to an ice cream oversight board, I’m pretty certain that I would be able to make decisions about ice cream flavors in a rational and unbiased way. People aren’t slaves to their personal preferences.

oof, definition of “fugly”

The entire rage against SUVs or sports cars or whatever is just a red herring to keep people at each other’s throats instead of noticing that passenger vehicles only account for about 15% of carbon emissions and are even less of an issue when you start counting the other more acute human health toxins that things…

We just need to make everything electric so it can be in whatever form factor you want and you (mostly) won’t be harming the environment.

Personal road transportation, including mass transit buses, accounts for 9% of global CO2 emissions. And 11% of US CO2 emissions. I can dig up the references if anyone wants to see them.

Oh man, so many! Pretty much anything new from BMW and Mercedes qualifies.

A naturally-aspirated large V8, with a manual transmission, in a 4-door sedan, at that price, is NP any day. Sadly cars like this won’t be made much longer (the Lexus IS500 is probably the last new car like this). Assuming this car is in good shape, it won’t depreciate any further (and might get more valuable).

And this illustrates why these advanced driver aid systems are problematic. People get used to relying on them, which inevitably changes how they drive. When those systems stop working optimally, some drivers will still rely on them (consciously or subconsciously), and cause problems.

There might be some friction, but if any progress is going to be made on the very real climate emergency we’re in, every little bit must be done.

This has nothing to do with heating up the planet. The small engines don’t use much gas, so the impact of banning their sale on CO2 emissions will be nil. They’re getting banned because of POLLUTION, not because of CO2 emissions.

Yeah, I don’t know how people buy new cars, it just doesn’t make any sense. I could afford to buy a fancy, expensive new car, but I would VERY much prefer to save more money and be able to stop working at some point. Buying a $50K+ new car seems crazy. Especially since most new cars are pretty crappy these days. Used…

And plant-derived ethanol is not the only solution, either. Given enough power (ideally renewable or nuclear), we could produce fuel from CO2 captured from the atmosphere. Replacing gasoline with a carbon-neutral fuel would be a MUCH better solution to CO2 emissions from cars than trying to force everyone into EVs.

Synthetic fuels may be expensive now, but costs will certainly decline. If synthetic fuels work, this would be a MUCH better solution to CO2 emissions than EVs. A direct replacement for gasoline would control the problem at the source and leverage existing distribution infrastructure, and would have basically…

But they will change their algorithms, and then when monitoring become standard, you won’t have a choice. Monitoring may make sense to you now because that’s bait that insurance companies use in the short term to normalize tracking of your driving. If tracking is allowed to persist, we’ll all get screwed in the longer…

GPS in cars is pretty useless since everyone has a phone with Google Maps that works much better than any in-car GPS. The only time a standalone GPS could be useful is if you’re starting your trip in a remote area without cell phone coverage, but that’s rare (and Google Maps has gotten much better at offline…

Totally. Also, allowing insurance companies to track driving and set rates based on this very detailed information defeats the whole point of insurance. The point of insurance is to aggregate risk, so everyone pays a predictable cost averaged over very large population. Setting rates based on individual behavior…