Someone please enlighten me: For off-road use, is a manual generally preferred? Is there any reason to prefer an automatic?

I think it’s more that the Explorer is a blah car in the first place. Go back 15 years and the Explorer was the car of choice for suburban moms everywhere. It’s lost sales over time, but retains its essential blahness. Adding extra power to it does what exactly? The only people who are going to buy an Explorer ST are…

GMC Typhoon, anyone? I don’t see what the problem is. If they lower it and make it handle, it’ll just be a big performance wagon that’s a little boxier than other wagons.

The interiors are pretty much the only problem. I think the old-people-car thing is slowly going away. But if you look at the interior of a Cadillac and an interior of a Mercedes, the Mercedes wins every time. And that is a big part of how people judge cars. I want a Cadillac, but I would have a hard time justifying…

I wouldn’t mind seeing a Fiesta with 4WD and a rally suspension.

Male syrup, eh?

Yeah, the new Navigator has all the same luxury features, maybe more, of the Continental. There is a question, then, of why someone would buy a Conti over a Navigator. In other words, Lincoln is competing against itself in the limo market.

Thanks, I did not know that. Is this platform like VW’s MQB? The MQB underpins a lot of vehicles, including Audis, and, if I remember correctly, the primary shared characteristic is the distance from the front wheel to firewall. My point being that the idea of a platform can be pretty flexible.

They know they can’t compete though. When they launched this thing, they called it “quiet luxury.” As in, not sport luxury. They are trying to do something other than jam into an overcrowded luxury space. Cadillac itself isn’t doing so hot with its sedans despite the fact that they’re generally great to drive.

You know it’s not a fusion, though, right? I’m pretty sure they’re not even related.

Pretty sure they sold all of them here in the NYC area. It’s basically a limo. Which is bad, because that’s what the Navigator is. If they like the name so much, just start calling the Navigator the Continental. Hell, Continental Navigator as a ring to it. It would at least accurately describe the size of the vehicle.

I’m pretty sure they don’t use anything, because TIE Fighters aren’t real.

Punk is rock. Also Bad Brains. Learn your shit.

The banjo derives from West Africa. There isn’t a lot of bluegrass without banjos.

Don’t forget the tanks.

What distinction are you making? Saying the car doesn’t exist, but there are prototypes. The prototypes sure make it sound like the car exists.

You lost the argument miles ago. I’m sorry you can’t see that. The thing is, we’re not that far apart on what we actually want. The difference is that I’m not creating, again, some fantasy that has no relation to the real world. I like property. I like human rights. I like equality. I’m sure you do too. I don’t need…

Miles. There is no such thing as Natural Law. If you look at actual human history, human beings have, for tens of thousands of years, created many, vastly different societies. The huge majority of those societies would not recognize in any way those rules you are calling Natural Law. You cannot actually say that there…

“It has one, one tool, the monopoly on legal violence.”

Dude, this is the point: