Guys, guys. VW had the scoop on this years ago.

Who could blame them? It’s a nice change of pace from Bronco roofs and EV startups stealing money.

Counterpoint: Luckiest car company - Mazda.

Mazda 5.
They are incredible little mini minivans. You can get them with a sweet dash-mounted 6-speed manual. Their cavernous interiors are amazingly functional, and useable because every seat can fold flat individually, or leave them all up for decent 6-person seating. The sliding doors are perfect for loading kids…

Classics.
Pros: Cheap, I bought mine for $11000 (Canadian). Reliable, easy and cheap to fix, looks amazing, is a hoot to drive around, has basically finished depreciating, and is supremely comfortable inside. Plus, people let you in and are super kind to you on the road.

Wagons in general. Americans are stupid

2015-2017 Chrysler 200

This vehicle is the gun with which Mazda shoots themselves in the foot.  All they had to do was plop the ol’ high-revvin, oil-drinkin’ rotary “range extender” in the bonnet and call it a day.  So instead of a $500 chargepoint credit, they could have have given the driver five hundred bucks of pennzoil, which should…

Throw in the usual battery degradation after the first couple of years and this actually becomes a golf cart with a nice interior.

I wish cars like this had an easter egg where if the airbags go off while traction control is disabled the sound system plays this:

My mom’s mom had a ‘57 Imperial convertible with a 392 Hemi that my then-16-year-old mom would drag-race. When I was a kid she was driving a Peugeot 504 Estate with a 5-speed; it was like carpooling with Sébastien Loeb.

My mom had a life-long lead foot starting with the first full auto transmission Buick in the 50s. I went back to Cape Cod to help her buy a car when she divorced my father. She was 86 at the time. Her reasoning for the divorce was that after 60 years she realized “it wasn’t going to work out.” She bought a Toyota…

“My mother (a Jalop before Jalops were a thing)“

My mom had one too while growing up. The thing could move!

“Buy”, right.  This is Detroit, push one from around the corner.

How hard is it to be declared a church?

JFC.  Doing those kind of speeds on a crowded freeway is complete lunacy.

so now there is video proof of reckless endangerment, can the tech get charged by the police?

Wish it had been one of those Chargers with the multicolored flashing lights, that'd have been great.

Please. No one is buying your blasé take on this. If this were your car, it’s possible that you wouldn’t mind a mechanic redlining it, but I don’t believe for a second that you’d be cool with them racing it on the street unnecessarily risking damage to your car, other cars and pedestrians while cooking your brakes in…