They still sell these—137,090 last year per the article. They’re not a C-HR competitor so much as a smaller CRV. The C-HR compromises utility for someone’s idea of funky styling and is ‘80s-economy-car-challenging slow. The HRV is about quick enough to not be dangerous and has no style. Or had. Now it’s apparently…

Expense. There wasn’t a space laid out for a clock in the main dashboard, since it was an option (and you couldn’t integrate it into the radio, like you can with a digital clock in an LCD panel), and coming up with a reasonable way to fill that round space was probably an expense BL didn’t want. You’ll note it’s in a…

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If I have to replace it entirely, why isn’t it round?

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1. If shit’s dripping under the car, find out what it is, and where the HELL it is coming from. Granted, every car drips some harmless water from the HVAC system. But water from the HVAC doesn’t stain your driveway, and isn’t some color.

2. People! Watch your god damn gauges and lights! Trust and…

It was relatively cheap, it looked “fun”, and it wears a Toyota badge. That’s enough to convince an awful lot of people to hand over their money.

The only thing that gives me pause is parts availability. That is probably not an issue for an F-series truck for a long time, but I’ve also owned a Cortina Mark II, where it definitely was an issue.

It is insane that we think $3 billion over 20 years for a service as essential the Postal System is somehow a lot of spending.

FIFY

The pay it forward thing has always been the dumbest thing imaginable. It’s performative charity for people who don’t need it. Want to feel good? Donate time or money to an actual cause. Or, as this article wisely suggests, tip the workers.

I don’t get the hate for that car. I mean, I guess it should have been a full hatchback, but it’s not THAT bad.

Particularly when it looks suspiciously like a GTV 6 on steroids,

I was thinking doctors, pharmaceuticals, , pharmacists and funeral homes.

This goes beyond the conduct that you can waive. Typically it has to be related to the activity in question. Getting blasted with water while a ski lift isn’t really the type of risk you expect from skiing. 

Jesus, that sounds like a fast track to hypothermic shock. They are lucky to be alive, that is the sort of shit that literally [not figuratively] gives people cardiac arrests. I hope the resort is comping their medical bills.

Also, consider an interim car, something undesirable but functional enough to last you for a few years until the market settles out. As an example, I have a tiny, old Mazda hatchback with a manual transmission. It easily has 5 good years left in it, but it’s not really worth any more than pre-pandemic (and should…

The stop signs are too darn many! A whole lot of them could be replaced with yield signs with zero consequences to road user safety. Country road intersecting another country road? Yield sign. Suburban street dumping into a main arterial road? Stop sign. But that would require the cops to give up that slam-dunk ticket…

What are you talking about? A year ago this still would have sounded crazy... Stop pushing your false narrative. 

I think the bigger concern here is the sentence stating “Will not exit passing lanes”. Does this mean from now on Teslas will be hogging the left lane 100% of the time? Lane hogging is already bad enough as it is. I am not familiar with Autopilot, can you set the speed like cruise control? If so then are we going to…

“We all rode in the trunk of our parents’ Pinto and survived. What’s the problem?”