Absolutely! Headaches aside, they have remained my favorite cars to drive. Ownership on the other hand does come with some big caveats. They are deeply needy, require obsessive maintenance, and most specialty shops are now few and far between if you get into something you can’t handle on your own. That being said…

I currently drive a 5 speed. I understand why it died.

Eh, I suppose even I have a bad take in me. :) I mean, I do *adore* terrible cars so it's technically on brand.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c09642 Looking though the actual paper, the authors attempt to account/control for that. They at least highlight the shelter-in-place period but probably are more limited to quantify the increase in work-from-home. 

We are still at the pre-IND phase on that program, mercifully.  Which is where it SHOULD stay until an actual path forward emerges.  But it definitely won’t.

And “goofus maloofus”...good one.

Sounds like Asimov’s Nightfall.

Look, using one of these fancy buses for “camping” is something that I just don’t get. You need a mobile living platform for a spell, I get it—actor on location—but camping?

Inventory is at record levels because people don’t want to buy a badly made car from a white supremacist piece of shit con-man.

I’ve heard this eyeball-roller more than once: owners told me how they “baby” their ride by putting premium gas in the tank instead of the correct regular grade. The whole idea of premium grade for higher compression engines to prevent knocking was beyond them—”babying” was all they knew.

But not being able to pay one’s bills is not an indication of one’s driving ability nor ability to not crash one’s car. So my insureance bill shouldn’t be higher because I’m poor.

A week tops at best. 

Nah. This was going to be my suggestion depending upon commute.

Honestly, I think a (much) truncated version of this would be a good exercise before taking delivery of any new car. I would assume that plenty of people, and this includes yours truly, have been guilty of assuming everything is in perfect order because the car is fresh off the transport. I’ve bought Hondas and…

This is really not a Tesla-Only thing. Anytime a company introduces an entirely new model there will be first-year quality control issues. Yes- that goes for Toyota too: The latest model Tundra had issues with timing chains detonating and the new Tacoma was recently featured on a Youtube video where the differential…

Manufacturers remove the shift know of their vehicles at just about every auto show I’ve attended for the past 40 years.

“ but for some reason, propulsion was not engaged when the emergency power came on”

It’s just that you said it was woven. If only textured, yes, keeping it clean will not be a problem. It’s still hideous, though.