Manual transmissions. There, I said it, and I’ll happily turn in my “enthusiast” card. Clutching in stop and go traffic was a literal pain in the ass that I’m perfectly happy never experiencing again.

Fumbling with paper maps and printed directions. It’s incredible to think how systems like CarPlay have made that whole process a trivial 1-sentence request.

Putting a key in the door to unlock it then putting the key into the ignition to start it. The car I drove 14 out of the last 15 years at least had keyless entry but now that I’ve experienced the life of just walking up to the car door, having the doors automatically unlock when I put my hand in the handle, then…

The First Model Year rule isn’t always hard and fast. For example, the new Toyota Venza is basically a re-skinned RAV-4 Hybrid, which itself has been around for a few years already. The drivetrain, frame and suspension are going to be solid. The only truly brand new items on the Venza are body and interior.

Would you prefer “They got what they wanted” instead?

So how many of those employees who died from Covid deliberately shunned getting vaccinated? (“Waaaaahhhhh! I’ve got my rights! The guvmint can’t tell me what to do!” Screamed the willfully ignorant simpletons.) All of them? If so, then they got what they deserved.

I’ve always thought Colorado had a pretty good plate.

Hasn’t this been covered to death here? Since you’re new to the States i guess we can give you a pass. And the answer is, and always will be, New Mexico.

While I support the right on red, having been a pedestrian clipped by drivers who don’t turn their heads before accelerating takes away any passion I have to fight for it. Way too many drivers just look back for cars and try to punch it without checking

Just wait until Owen encounters his first Michigan left or a Jersey jug handle. Bonus points for surviving the hillside strangler in Illinois just west of Chicago where three interstates merge and use about only 3/8 of a lane to do so. Also, just driving anywhere in or around Detroit and making it somewhere without…

It was always ‘fun’ playing road crossing roulette when I bicycled everywhere trying to guess if the car was going to turn right on red without first looking back to be sure no pedestrians (aka me) approached the intersection. Only got clipped a few times, no firm hits.

You won’t find lane reflectors anywhere that regularly plows the roads for snow. Otherwise the plows would just rip them out every year. Once I moved somewhere with almost no snowfall, there were lane reflectors everywhere.

I have to wonder how many of these “new” sales are ex-service loaners that had never been actually registered because they had dealer plates on them.

Jalopnik: Oh no, sedans are dying, why are people choosing CUV/SUVs over Sedans?

Also Jalopnik: LOL these cucks bought a Sedan in 2020.

Had one of these as a rental, thing was the bomb. Enormous fuel tank and you could fit like 3-4 made guys in the trunk.

“the final model rolled off the production line in February 2020" ...

This is an abomination! GM selling off out of production vehicles based on a 10 year old design!

All things considered, the last Impala was actually very nice. GM finally woke up and made a decent sedan. And then the Sedan market died. Yup. GM.

Their wives did not want to dive their trucks that were covered with bow hunting window stickers, trump flags and camo rocker panel trim.

I don’t think this is surprising that people bought them. The Impala is one of the classic old-guy sedans that I’m sure not a small number planned on being their last car and keeping them forever with sedans really going away and not wanting an SUV. And premature death of a car because of mechanical failure or…