This is a step down in size from a CR-V.

The HR-V has that clever back seat/gas tank under the front seat thing but the shape is non-boxy which compromises cubic feet in the back. And I found the NVH/ride unacceptable, if a step up from the awful that way Fit it is based on.

A Forester is the next size bigger but very quiet and ride well. I actually like the CVT - totally smooth obviously and doesn’t do anything much that’s annoying. A Crosstrek is the same thing but with a lower roof and less room. They even share the same dashboard. 

I find myself liking the Forester’s ground clearance in just very city driving. Need to take a shortcut that involves driving over a curb? Sure, why not? High curb at the front of a parking lot space that would have scraped the old minivan’s front spoiler making me wonder if I just tore it off? Not a problem. Also the…

Ohhhhhhh. I was reading “fastest selling” as “best selling” and was a bit confused by some references to it.

I hate it when people don’t know the difference between its and it’s.

You can type a ü by holding down Alt while typing 0252. I guess German keyboards have an umlaut key or something. 

You sound nice. 

I think the toy inside the Kinder egg qualified as a kiddie choking hazard in the US. I’m surprised that it would be up to EU regs. Little kids do put stuff in their mouths. 

So, that’s a “no”.

In case you think those have gone out of style the very new bathrooms in the very new transit museum in Vienna (check it out, I mean when they let us back in the rest of the world some day - but be sure to carefully check the days it’s open first) have the shit shelf toilets.

What’s up with that? I always just replaced the rubber strip and in the last decade or more all you can buy is the whole thing for 10X more. Replacing just the strip part worked a little differently on different cars but it was always easy. Once I bought some long rubber wiper strips at a parts store that you were…

I don’t know the stats, but I never had a train problem in Germany or Europe in general. Of course once in a while someone jumps in front of a train in Brussels and the whole trip goes in the toilet. 

I cannot explain it. My family had not much interest in cars or any brand loyalty. But as a small child I thought that the postwar Chevy truck was ugly. A local store did deliveries in the van version, which I thought was particularly bad. I thought the same about the postwar design Chevy cars.

*alluded*

Every time I see a current model Jaguar XJ, old as that design is, I think that’s how a high end car should look. They tried to make something beautiful and not a different version of all the competition. If Jaguar had leaned into that look instead of trying to be more mainstream in subsequent designs maybe they would…

All those Japanese and Korean cars have been stylistically copying BMW and Mercedes for decades. BMW hasn’t thought of anything new other than following the pretending to look hot overall trend.

Also a big piece of oily dirt in your eye. 

You’ve been shot down multiple times. Stop. 

No, because in NYC we social distance and wear masks.