I ask myself the same. The new Civic got larger, which is fine since that positions the Fit as Honda’s compact car.

Can confirm for college campuses. I’m a student driver at the University of Georgia (yes, they have a 180+ student driver fleet because... why not?) and our goal is to transition our entire fleet of buses to electric within the next 3 years. We’ve had test runs, and they’ve been fine/promising.

It’s the anonymity that’s empowering trolls to be toxic online. I guarantee you most of those folks online wouldn’t dare say the same garbage from their mouths face-to-face with a real person offline.

At least Kinja comments are somewhat more self-moderated because of the starring system, and also cause the commenters themselves aren’t total asshats in general.

At least electronic parking brakes take up less physical space. I’m okay with these. They also give manufacturers the option of having their cars automatically apply them upon parking the vehicle, which is good practice (but unfortunately something most folks do not do).

I stopped blessing people (or the equivalent) years ago. Nobody I’ve ever met - be it close friends or just casual acquaintances - has ever cared whether I said anything after sneezing or not.

It looks like a damn whale. Whoever thought taking the Model S and inflating it up to SUV size should be fired.

You get used to them eventually. They have different designs for each of the gears, so you end up knowing which is where by the “feel” of the design (i.e., the angle/slope/size of each button). Kinda like you don’t ever look at your keyboard or game controller after you’ve gotten to know them.

Totally agree. I think the pictures look beautiful, and gorgeous enough to be on some Flickr car page.

It truly is awesome. But one must keep in mind the higher costs of maintenance for said luxury vehicles. Sometimes, the savings in up-front pricing for that gently used luxury vehicle isn’t necessarily worth it in the long haul.

I feel like it’s a different type of assholery with Lexus drivers, though. Kind of like most SUV drivers: incompetent out of ignorance and/or inability.

I don’t really think we’ll see the days of user-replaceable car batteries (the one on EVs, I mean). Well, in the sense that said batteries would be *easy* to access and replace, anyway. They’re already replaceable, just very difficult to do without taking it to professional servicing.

Pretty much this. You can go even further, and note how people don’t even seem to understand the values of cars very well.

Different culture, different parenting.

Which year model? I just did a cursory google for “Rav4 cabin noise,” and got a Consumer Reports article (and a Jalopnik review!) stating that it was much quieter than the Honda CR-V, and Jalopnik themselves wrote that it was reminiscent of a Lexus in terms of road noise.

Ah, gotcha. Sorry to hear that.

Didn’t they say it was for utility or something like that? I *kinda* get what they mean by that, but at least update the look of that digital clock. It needs to look more... *modern* (and less cheap).

What? You kidding me?

The Rav4 has lots of issues, but road noise isn’t one of them. It’s one the quietest vehicles out there.

To each their own. My friends like to nag on me cause I like Toyota’s, but that’s because I like:

Fair enough. I see your point.