Ah, yet another calm, well-reasoned, not-at-all confrontational argument, I see. Yes, purchase confirmation for... a car I didn’t purchase. You got me.

...and I see from your other posts that you’re a contentious troll who’s willing to die on the hill that contemporary Kia/Hyundais are poor cars despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Of course you are.

Please do. At that price, you get everything the car can possibly come with. Drop a few options, and you’ll still get 95 percent of it for around $30K.

Hyundai Sonata 1.6 T Limited. Dead stop.

Or you could go Ethiopian and add... salt. 

This needs to be discussed more. National Lampoon is generally talked about in reverent tones, and is certain looked back on with misty-eyed nostalgia by Boomers, but in looking at it now, in 2022, in the context of everything that’s come to pass, what was it really?

Yeah, I commented about this in the previous previous article — Clarkson’s Farm is shockingly entertaining.

Along those lines, I’d nominate Goblin Works Garage. At first, I was like, oh a storied British garage making uniquely British one-off handbuilts with old-school tech! Wow!

LeBlanc was death. The new new ones with the “northern” cast, though, are really good, definitely the best chemistry since the original.

It really is! My son and I started watching it as a joke (my god, are they this desperate for TG spinoffs?!), but I ended up binging like four episode a night.

Too. Damned. Long. Every episode should be -- at most -- a quarter of the time it is. And, yes, his delivery schtick gets really old, really fast.

I actually think that’s the best car show on TV.

I’ve always loved UK Top Gear, but speaking of reviews, the one thing that does bother me is that the BBC and Ford obviously have some kind of deal because they’ve never driven a single Ford model that doesn’t receive gushing, hyperbolic praise from everyone involved.

Christ, finally, thank you. This is the issue. If you’re a shipbuilder and you’re down river from a bridge that has X clearance, don’t agree to build a ship that’s X + 5oft tall. Bezos had nothing to do with this.

This just in: I have that same fIREHOSE shirt. Signed by Mike Watt, no less.

To me, that’s what they’re for. During the day, the car gets hot and your head bakes, but at night they’re awesome.

I can take or leave the lane assist, but adaptive cruise control is the greatest automotive advance of the past decade. On Kias, at least, it works consistently and flawlessly — once you learn to trust it. (That first “will it or won’t it stop” leap of faith is tough!)

I know, that’s what I want a reboot of: the batshit insane Japanese version, not the tepid American reboot. The only thing they’d have to work around would be the Japanese women panelists from the original, whose food criticism was generally, “Oh, tee-hee-hee, I know nothing about food — can a man tell me if I like…

It actually is The Final V12, because in five years, only one of the 12 will still run.

Because for some of us, the advantages you present are disadvantages. For 99 percent of what I do, I don’t need ground clearance and a ton of suspension travel, but I still want to be able to carry a ton of stuff. And you can tow with wagons, just not as much.