What you need is transit which is -better- than driving. I take a really nice commuter train, daily. It costs me about the same as driving, and takes about 5 minutes longer each way. I use my laptop on the way to work, getting about 40 minutes “ahead of the game” by the time I get there. There’s a coffee stand…

Yeah. And what’s really amazing is how different the people are, from location to location, without leaving the province.

Funny. Willing to bet that Lexus was actually responsible for, ooh, maybe about 2-3% at best, of the design of this.

To be fair, 200hp in a floppy, shitty chassis with lots of torque steer and awful brakes? Sounds terrifying enough!

Left a plastic water cooler jug on the passenger side floor mat of my Civic, with the sunroof open. The jug acted like a magnifying glass, and burned a massive ring into the carpet, fusing the two together permanently.

Actually, an ED Cabrio would be neat as hell!

Very cool - good to know! The 2008s still look great here in Vancouver - there just not enough heat / UV to really affect car paint. We normally get about 20 years before a car’s paint starts to fade. But I had quite a few issues with my 451. Clutch actuator failed, and dumped the clutch so hard a few times that it…

Oh neat! You had the burgundy 450, the blue/silver 451 and the white/orange 453. What’s the fourth one? (They’re so cute!)

And you only need a two car garage! I seriously miss my 2008 Smart Fortwo Passion, in yellow/silver. Probably one of my very favourite cars.

It’s a cutie! But I’d rock that every day. Especially in that colour scheme.

i3’s are so, so deeply cool. Their packaging is amazing. And they’re genuinely pretty good to drive! Had one for a week as a dealship loaner and loved it.

On an S2000 specifically?

That’s crazy. “Sure, let’s just piss away a few tens of thousands of lbs of fuel, throwing the carbon into the atmosphere for -nothing-. Because rules.”

I’ve driven both now. I agree on the Model S, it’s definitely not a driver’s car - it’s best cross-shopped with maybe a previous generation 5-series or an A6. The Model 3, on the other hand, is a _blast_ to drive. Think BMW 340i with the M-package. The steering feel is like nothing else on the market, in that segment.

Definitely a small-town mentality. Once you get into a fairly big city, anywhere where people will take advantage of something, they will.

Seats are terrible, but I’ll agree with everything else. It’s a horrible road trip car though - there just isn’t much highway stability there. Backup camera? Hehe, utterly no point in it. Back seat? Ehh... it’s borderline useful for one person back there, completely not two. Mine’s more or less permanently folded…

You’re seriously missing something: decent seats.

The 2nd generation Fortwo. Especially the Fortwo ED. Driven a Smart? They’re terrible. But they’re also so, so much fun and they have -so much- design and personality in them. I don’t care what anybody says, I love these cars.

You’ve clearly never used a smart key. They don’t last years - maybe 18 months, at best. They’re actively receiving and transmitting the entire time the battery is inside - which is how they simply work “by magic” as you approach the car. Their power demands are far, far greater than a conventional key. And when it’s…

Those trucks were just excellent. Fantastic in-city daily drivers.