Yeah, what women were in the running for the job? Transportation Design is a small field globally and there are very few women in it. I would also imagine that most of the ones that do exist are on the younger side and haven’t had the chance to advance their careers far enough to be appointed design heads. Also, with…

As the rare weirdo who has no interest in Porsches and would buy a Lotus over one without even a hint of consideration for the former and agree that the Evora is a great deal used, I wouldn’t actually pay that much for even a new car, so yeah, it’s a very selective fanbase.

Of course, they do have some kind of…

My older nephew is a nervous type and was very timid and terrible behind the wheel (crashed into two garages!), so my BiL and sister had him take a teen emergency driving course or whatever they call it that’s like high-performance-driving-light and it transformed him. By that, he’s collected a bunch of speeding…

Around Boston, until the traffic came back (though the problem drivers still exist where the traffic isn’t), it’s a mix of people driving like they’re looking to recreate the last scene from “Vanishing Point” or dangerously slow and frightened/indecisive/confused (and probably driving a CRV). The latter category are…

Exactly. I had a guy at work ask me if I didn’t answer the phone the day before because his number shows up from an odd place. He knew he called while I was driving, so I told him that, even if I heard it go off (not with the windows down and music up), I don’t pick up the phone when I’m driving. Only exception was whe…

I won’t even ride on the street unless it’s my rocket bike because it’s very noticeable and it makes people laugh. If you make people laugh, they don’t want to kill you (like they do when I’m riding the almost cruelly ironically named road bike, which is the last bike I ride on the actual road due to it attracting the…

Haha, D’oh!

Since they seem to keep a transmission design at least 20 years, they’ll probably go full electric before the CVT is dead. The CVT replaced a 4-speed auto in most models (they had a 5-speed in the 6s).

1980s Subarus would like to say, “Hello!” but they’ve all rotted to shit by now.

Most cash I ever had was $10k to buy someone a car and I not only hid it in the vehicle, but drove like I was smuggling biowarfare viruses in fragile containers. My fear was about <1% the possibility of being robbed by a civilian criminal with the rest on a criminal cop and I’m a white guy in a fairly anonymous newer…

Before the detail about the child support, that was my thought and my corresponding headline rewrite would have been: Fucking Moron Gets Prayed Upon by Notorious Criminal Organization.

But being that he owes that much child support, he can fuck a wood chipper and never have to worry about child support for any…

I think this is going to be a problem for a lot of other brands, too. In a distant past, I would optimistically posit that maybe design and interesting interiors would become a thing as a way of differentiating a brand, but with everything looking more the same in vehicles with inherently rigid and uninteresting aesthe…

Any kind of RV seems like a circle of hell to me in so many ways, but anything with one of those disgusting portable toilets is ND. I was a boat mechanic briefly, but long enough to have more than enough experience with those horrible things. The boat I’m building will have no facilities but for an emergency garbage…

This. Maybe I’m just not familiar with this type because I don’t even date stupid women, never mind marrying one, but most I dated, if trying to get me to move on a dead project, I would imagine they’d google search a relative value before even approaching me, then “suggest” that I sell it and that I could likely get $…

It’s not a truck as much as a replacement for the Fiesta/Focus/Fusion with more utility than the latter with the starting price and mileage of a decently optioned former.

Yeah, this is largely a single replacement for their 3 dead cheapest cars. It is 8" longer than the Fusion, which isn’t small, but certainly not huge by current standards, especially for what it offers in utility over the Fusion, yet can be had as a hybrid that gets the mileage of the departed smaller cars for the…

This is essentially a replacement for the Fiesta/Focus/maybe Fusion—very few of which would have sold in 2-door form, either, were they offered—that better fits current market trends and has the capability of appealing to some people who have use for a light duty truck. By the numbers of them I see, even full-size…

Exactly. If it can fit in a pickup bed, it probably wasn’t that big of a job that it couldn’t be done with something else. I moved 1yard of dirt in bags in my Focus hatchback with room for probably 2 (not that I would put that much weight in there). A full size truck with the 8' bed (that nobody buys) and without the…

On work time, I’m driving the damn speed limit (or near enough to not get run off the road), so I wish rolling in the right lanes helped around here, but it seems no matter what lane you’re in, some jackass comes up on you like you’re in the middle of brake-testing them. Unless, of course, there’s a fun highway ramp,…

“Runners”, I used to call them back when I drove faster. Followed one through the entire state of NJ once (black BMW 3-series).