Honestly, I’ve avoided even visiting LA when nearby because everyone tells me the driving is so horrendous. I get anxiety every time I hear a LA driving story. I’m from Chicago, where traffic is quite bad. That’s how bad LAs rep is.

Also, a person who drives slowly for 20 miles, until you pass them, then they start speeding up. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve went around someone only to have them right on my ass a minute later. “Why didn’t you just go that fast in the first place?”

I need not respond to this post as you pretty much covered the most pressing issues on this topic. 

It literally took the recyclable bits of every Luv truck ever made to have enough salvageable metal to make a single 14.5 oz soup can. I don’t want the soup from that can.

And leaving his house in pine boxes. 

Also how I felt in my beige-over-brown, 4 door, 1982 Ford Escort, Automatic, winner of this legendary worlds-slowest drag race. If a light turned red as I approached, this feeling of dread came over me, as I knew the lengthy and depressing process of acceleration was going to start yet again.

I supposed it’s no less productive than a twitter replies war, where faceless individuals battle in a forum where there are no winners and where all contestants regurgitate the same set of stale facts until everyone leaves unsatisfied, solved nothing and only solidified everyone’s preexisting points of view and…

At this point in the life-cycle of capitalism in particular, the masses are at the mercy of the wealthy minority, what with the introduction of unlimited PAC money to politicians. Now the bastardization of our democracy and much of society is complete. Sadly, these fundamentally-flawed transactions seem to go about in…

This thing gives Optimus Prime a boner. 

I like that Toyota is still rocking that 2003 Camry instrument panel and infotainment. The 1987 Timex HVAC display is particularly retro. 

Ah, the ever-expanding proliferation of n’er-do-wells and idiots; the bane of my existence. 

I never drove or worked on a gas-engined Luv, so I have no “hot take” on those. I was just stunned at how slow the diesel ones were. I actually rated them as “dangerously slow”. Whenever we drove that thing I felt like Arnold in Terminator 2, when the protagonists were in that S10 landscaping truck and were run down…

It was composed from my heart. Or what remains of it. 

The most annoying thing they do is drive a BMW or Audi and think every other car is just an autonomous obstacle that they must overcome. 

If you even considered buying it, at any price, you’ve never driven one. A single 2 mile test drive would change your mind. Every red light is an anxiety-inducing event, every merge makes you wish for mercy, side roads are the only option, as these are illegally slow for expressways. A friend of mine who had one was…

Do what I did: Get a Hyundai Santa Fe. It’s so obtuse and vanilla that it sends no message. You’ll hate yourself but nobody else will notice you.

LOL. Great observations. We just moved out in September. Don’t miss it! Although, out here in the FAR northwest suburbs, the food scene is TOUGH!! I may need to get back to the city just to get a decent meal now-and-again.

I commonly saw them without a cloud of blue smoke behind them; when they were on a flat-bed. 

These cars were terrible and I hate them, but at that price, in that condition, I could live with another one of my bad decisions: NP.

Yep. It seems like Chicago will have 2 classes soon: Those who live in 2 million dollar houses/condos and those who live in neighborhoods with a half-dozen homicides per month.