You haven’t met Miss Mercedes have you?

Want your roads built and repaired? Taxes
Want your education paid for? Taxes
Want your military? Taxes
Want your public works (water, sewer etc...)? Taxes
Want your public parks maintained? Taxes
Want your State and Federal parks maintained and protected? Taxes

ok. then. let’s not pay any taxes. you build your own road to get to places. You can’t use the road I or anyone else build. I’ll charge you stupid amount of money to use mine if you do. Or you could just home school all your kids. don’t even think about having the military power of the U.S. Sure you probably have…

You see Toyotas clogging up the left lane, I see pickups and full size SUVs. It’s all about what annoys you personally the most. You only see what you hate, and project on that.

But driving a F150 around is not fun now and not fun back in 2003. In fact I would say 95% of commute driving is not fun, even in a ‘fun car’.

Minivans are the cargo shorts of cars. They fit everyone with plenty of room to spare, they can carry all your stuff, they’re comfortable, and they open in cool ways.

But it doesn’t.

Do any of your bro-truck friends actually do any of those things by any chance?

I get that same feeling buying old shit that is new to me. It is a much cheaper habit. Off to craigslist to see what idiot is selling their recently deceased uncle’s woodworking tools for almost free to make room in their shed.

Check the time stamps buddy. Car pulls into bay at 12:54. The 2:11 time stamp is when the car is running on the lift to set the fluid level.

Find me a better suited car for hauling my 4 year old, while still pulling 40 mpg(I have the hybrid), I need my push button start, sun roof, and gadgets, able to fit a shit load of cargo in the back with seats folding down, and keep it under 30k. Simply stated we buy them because they work best as a family hauler. I…

The whole ‘teen car’ thing is so ‘Murcan. In most of the rest of the world people don’t automatically buy their kids a car, and between purchase, operating and insurance costs, there’s no way kids can afford to buy their own. Heck, there are countries where you can’t even drive until you’re 18. Instead the rest of the…

It’s probably fair to criticize an M3 as somewhat selfish, but the GTI gets 30+ mpg in a very practical package. Look we are all free to make our own choices in this country, but our collective over-consumption of resources and energy has a detrimental effect upon all of us. National and economic security, local and…

The fact that the public is gobbling up these things at such a rate is really just proof that gas is too cheap - now is the time to hike gas taxes and actually fix our goddamn crumbling roads.

YOU. DO. NOT. OWN. THE. ROAD. IN. FRONT. OF. YOUR. HOUSE.

The runway has huge run up areas. They can’t land on those, but they can be used for the takeoff roll.

You would think that they’d have learned their lesson after the last era of “peak SUV.” Every “young family” just had to have a leviathan with 3rd row seats, because their 2 sons had “outgrown” the quaint little Expedition they bought 2 years ago.

Seems like you’d be really great at dinner parties.

Exactly. Torque at-the-wheel benefits from the mechanical advantage of your gearing (in a traditional gas car with gears). So for a quick back of the envelope calculation...

If they’re using 18650 cells without some battery enhancing tech, that battery pack would be north of 2500 lbs.