I really liked mine, too. Mine was a 2013, and I just needed more trunk space, but the reasons you give are all ones that I really enjoyed about it, save the active noise cancellation. I’m not sure mine had that. Another small annoyance with mine is that it was one year too old to get *all* the SiriusXM lineup. Bah.

I would have replaced my Lacrosse with a Lacrosse wagon in a goddamn heartbeat, too.

I’m curious what you don’t like about the interior on the Lacrosse? Having owned one, I really thought the interior on mine was extremely well designed and laid out, with the materials well chosen and put together.

I’ll step up and defend modern day Buick products. I owned a 2013 Lacrosse for a year before trading it in and really, really liked about 95% of the car. Mine was the “eAssist” mild hybrid type, and it got really great gas mileage for a big car with a small engine. Performance was middling, and regenerative brakes…

The Caliber is the only car I’ve ever broken by touching it, it was such a piece of crap. (Leaned slightly against it with my hand on the rubber ridge on the roof rails, and the whole damn thing slipped off its mounting.)

Accolade beat you to this one by 28 years.

People occasionally asked me if these stickers on my first car were legit. No they were not. The duct tape was though.

If someone hates cars and needs to drive, there’re three choices in my opinion.

Oh my god, I wish I had money. One of those Mitsubishi vans, or a Hiace would be amazing, but I’d want to drive it too much.

An engineering job takes years of study and hard work, which many, many people simply can’t do. Not because they don’t have the aptitude, but because they have families to support and don’t have the time. I do agree that Uber drivers should start immediately looking for other employment though, anything they can get.…

He’s not wrong, but he’s also the one making the stupid decision to put his living in the hands of people who are intentionally, steadily, and *publicly* working hard to eliminate his source of employment.

Hell yes. I know it’s weird, but I have a love of the Classic American Van, even have my own ‘84 Dodge sitting in the dirt half of my driveway waiting on a battery and a tuneup for this coming summer.

Another thing about Monopoly is that the rules are so loose and easily modifiable that people can internalize the rules (except the one rule nobody remembers about property auctions) and come up with variations on the fly to change things up.

“Welcome to Hardee’s Academy — can I teach you long division today?”

I think Martha Stewart’s advanced level of chill makes her a pretty great example of vanilla, herself.

I think we’re on the same page with this, yeah. The real problem is the entire procurement and manufacturing system.

And that’s just part of the problem, yep.

Sometimes you’re better off not reinventing the wheel and just upgrading it instead, because the wheel does the job of being a wheel so well. 

Intelligence failure, not weapon failure. Yep.

There are a lot of ways we could make it more affordable to keep older aircraft flying, first and foremost of them being “Don’t eliminate the ability to build new ones when necessary until you have the replacement in deployment.”