The thing is, I cannot bike to the point that it is real exercise because that involves working up a sweat. Biking is a thousand times healthier than driving (assuming you’re safe from toxic people in brodozers and Jeeps and far away from the semi-conscious in crossovers), but I wouldn’t equal commuting by bike to…

Did it for years, got sweaty a lot of times but always as the result of crappy planning on my part. Leaving ten minutes earlier was all it took.

I was trying to think of something both embarrassing and depressing, that was the first suggestion my brain sent up and I’m sticking to it.

I have only seen the SCG street cars at various shows and they feel very half hearted and rather depressing - like watching a drunk man masturbate. Or like some kids’ sketches in the margin come to life, except by the time they’re being built he has already moved on to the next thing. The Boot was kind of cool, but…

Pretty sure that “faring better” is the correct spelling, unless I am misunderstanding something. Was it already fixed?

Yep. I have worked adjacent to restaurants where the staff steal and drink on the job, and it becomes very hard to change that culture because the only employees who stick around are the ones who want the dysfunction.

With the staggering income gaps we have nowadays, the only way not to have rampant crime is to overpolice. Next up: death squads.

I mean, that’s exactly what the cops are saying, but that doesn’t mean they’re correct. What is needed is to diminish the income gap, and to have a functioning police force (ie, not power drunk nazis). Hopefully narrowing the income chasm will bring with it a change in outlook on criminality.

My mom is 72 and drives a Honda Fit with a manual, which she bought three years ago to replace another manual.

Thank goodness you don’t have to stop your EV to charge it.

Honda Fits and Yarises are insanely expensive; the needs of used car buyers and new car buyers/leasers are wildly different nowadays.

Oh man, can’t wait to see someone swap this into a Civic. Or even better, into a ‘57 Chevrolet.

The best part about the 240 was how narrow it was; it allowed me to make it through very tiny gaps in NYC traffic. Once, a Camry tried to follow me past a garbage truck which blocked the street in Harlem and the Camry hit the truck and maybe also a parked car... I felt bad but it was also satisfying.

I miss my 240 Wagon, but they went from being affordable cool for the cognoscenti to being BaT fodder for the wealthy. I was distraught to realize that 740/940 Wagons are nearly as expensive.

And then he designed a vaguely chamfered potato.

I assumed they just didn’t realize it was mid-engined and didn’t account for the center of gravity - but I also don’t know jack about how to jack up a car.

Absolutely. My neighborhood in Queens has a very high proportion of cabbies and Uber drivers living in it, and the amount of Uberbombs (piss bottles) in the streets is just going up and up.

I can’t speak to the actual taxes and fees, but they would have to undergo inspections and meet safety requirements, worker conditions, etcetera. It would be a Good Thing, but presumably hard to enforce without violating the rights of actual Panamanian boat owners.

Half true - some do it because they want to pay less taxes and not have to deal with inspections. Some do it so that they can register cars that are not yet eligible for importation.

I know. Florida is inching ever closer to that.