as a recently minted Carmel resident, i can affirm you get used to it.  and now i fucking love them- im convinced they’re massive time-savers

florida gonna florida

Inevitably we all will.  Insurance, I’m sure, will be called to rescue the poor souls and we’ll collectively foot the bill.

but but but:

You get a star for your post.  I wish I could give an extra several thousand stars for just the first paragraph.

Odds are Waymo ain’t coming to Carmel IN anytime soon

meh i saw something like this 15 years ago

All that is wrapped in a tidy mama bear-esque parkable wagon package. What’s not to like?

so when some cybercab driver gets a moving violation, who gets the ticket?

cute, but nowadays if you could just finagle a K20 in there it would get you more power from (obviously) far less complexity

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i dunno, this sounds like a pretty shitty idea

^^^ this.  $7500 is f@#king insane for this literal rustbucket.  even at $750 i would honestly avoid.

someone decided that color was the right choice for a respray? eesh

13 years ago i bought a 2011 sienna LE. i liked it so much that in 2019 I bought another one, this time a 2007 sienna CE. basic, simple, and DEAD fucking reliable. 2grfe+toyota auto tranny is a 300k mi drivetrain if you stick to reg oil changes.

I can recall seeing a few of these around, they were mildly striking/interesting to look at, with all those hard lines in the design language. Kinda cool looking. But meh, never actually rode in one.

As true as that statement might be, saying “That’s the best looking Mustang II I’ve ever seen” is the automotive equivalent of saying “that was the most pleasant colonoscopy I’ve ever had.”