Fine. How do you know? Run a laundry service for a Viper club? Habitually find yourself in relationships with Viper owners? Own a one man waxing place with valet parking?

Oh man, as the owner of an aging first gen Fit, the hybrid version of this would be the ideal replacement as a family errand/sometimes commuter car.

I think this is a poorly written article. As far as I can tell, the numbers they cite per year are inclusive of assaults by both drivers on passengers,

One is by drivers. The other is likely by passengers on the driver or other passengers. At least that’s how I read it. 

I always wanted a Transit Connect RS. Would be one of the sleepiest sleepers of all time.

I have a Honda Fit that’s actually a bit older than the one being described here. I’m not worried about my son’s safety, but as mentioned, you don’t want to be in front of a rear facing car seat when riding in one. The Fit gets most of its amazing amount of space by being relatively tall inside. Doesn’t really help…

I wouldn’t choose a rig as big as this personally, but I’ve traveled plenty of places in developing countries where I saw equally large and bigger commercial trucks on some pretty sketchy roads. I don’t think that these are really for off road exploring. They’re more for driving places with really shit roads, then…

Is this counting fleet sales? I’m kind of surprised that the Transit Connect is so low given how many of them I see as work vehicles.

How is the wall-feel compared to its GM competitors?

I think it looks fine, but one thing I’d worry about is the visibility. One of the things that I like about my first gen Fit is that it has extremely good visibility basically everywhere. The apparently higher beltline makes it look like that might be compromised here.

I believe that “new set of wheels” meant “a new car” not “aftermarket rims for the current one.”

You may very well be right. But they also might have been in a really different situation when they bought the Kia. People finish law/medical school eventually! Well, some people.

Oooh with that new grill design I bet they can fit lots of extra oversensitive airbag sensors.

So there are a couple of reasons that we can’t just make those assumptions.

The problem is that this isn’t eliminating all models of cars that have average ownership times of less than five years. They are eliminating all individual cars that were held for a shorter time from their calculations. So 1. It inflates the overall averages because it just doesn’t count cars owned less than five…

Yeah I agree and suspect that a lot of the cars would still feature. But bad methodology always gets me (I’m a quantitative social scientist), so I couldn’t let it pass.

The methodology is pretty misleading. It excludes cars that were owned for less than five years. So really this a list of how long people keep cars if they don’t sell them in the first five years.

According to data provided by the Women’s Sports Foundation, 3,415,297 girls played high school sports in the 2017-2018 school year. They made up 42.8 percent of participants. That means girls are provided with 1.15 million fewer opportunities to play sports at the high school level.

I actually like the GLB. It’s a boxy utility wagon masquerading as a CUV.

I have a Transit Connect too and overall like it a lot. I’ve had a few maintenance issues (ball joint in the rear, axle shaft in the front, cv boot in the front) that might be born of me using it for purposes that often take me on to not so nice dirt roads, so a ruggedized version like this Toyota might be my…