“So, there is definitely no room for citizens to protest the publicly-owned body that runs a public service to improve its service by means of pointing out its flaws, holding it accountable, and forcing internal change by political pressure on elected officials? The only effective means of fixing the MTA is to (1)…

You: ”If you think the subway is BETTER than the alternatives, keep paying your fare. IF you think the alternatives are better, stop paying the fare and find alternatives means to either, get to point B or make point B come to you.”

THIS. I am already bored as a passenger if i’m not talking to people. I will be SOOOOO bored all alone, unable o do anything but sit and listen to music for hours on end...

Unless they get sick from looking at screens in moving cars. Like me.

I get horrible motion sickness from reading and looking at screens in automobiles and boats. Not planes though.

You Americans only got the current gen, right? My mom owned one of the early ones when i was a kid in the mid-late 2000s! She traded it after the second fuel line blown up in her Chevy Meriva. Now THAT was a sorry penalty box.

It’s stupid(er) not to try.

I’ve never bought a new car, but if i were to buy one day, i’d do my best to go for a manual wagon or small manual sedan. I’m thinking that i’d end up buying the VW has Voyage or something like that from another brand, in case another dealership made a good enough deal, even though I personally prefer the Voyage.

This is the correct take.

That’s less then 80K miles mate... 100KM is 62,4M

My god. Those officers must have been pissed.

Maybe for the US it was underpowered, here in Brazil... it was just normal and average.

Bad? Not here in Brazil, here it was just plain, boring and usual. Reliable enough, roomy enough, powerful enough, just... enough.

“a car that has a shooting brake version is auto non-meh.”

THIS is the correct take. You just nailed it. And i f***ing love Frank Sinatra.

Behold the Dodge Charger Hellkitty

“And as others have mentioned, amber tail lights are entirely unnecessary.”

Still better then the Ford Pinto, which translates to “d*ck” in Portuguese. You never want to say that the “D*cks came with a fatal flaw” or “Ford recalled the defective D*cks” which is what happens when we talk about the Pinto’s exploding fuel tank.

I was about to link that beauty.

This, very much this. She better have a nice personality.