Nah dude, the “free market” is good at business interests not personal safety. I research pesticides for a living. The very existence of the organic movement is proof positive that marketing trumps sensibility in our capitalist system. Organic farms use the shit out of copper sulfate, which is more toxic and worse for…

I can say with excessive certainty that you are allowed to take right hand turns on red in New York.

Shhh,

Congrats lincoln. You made a car that doesnt suck.

And not sucking is the first step to being kinda good

You won’t start winning any hearts and wallets until you start being good. Not sucking is important, but not sucking shouldnt be the end goal.

Keep going

dunno, I don’t buy new vehicles.

But if Honda did, the bench seat spec ridgeline would certainly be on my short list for craigslist searches in the coming years.

Its already on my list, but the next truck I buy is almost certainly gonna be an old datsun. for reasons completely unrelated to the new ridgeline

MINIVAN MINIVAN: MINIVAN MINIVAN

Minivan, minivan: MINIVAN MINIVAN MINIVAN MINIVAN
Minivanminivanminivan minivan minivan. Minivan minivan minivan minivan minivan? Minivan minivan minivan: minivan, minivan, minivan. Minivan minivan minivan minivan minivan minivan.

Minivan,

Minivan Minivan

Step 1: Flare wheel arches
Step 2: Knobby off road tires
Step 3: ???????
Step 4: Profit!

thats what shovels are for!

OR put the engine under there and give me a frunk, or even better, no hood at all! and a side loading ramp!

call it... the corvair!

I require bench seats

bench seats, bench seats, bench seats, bench, bench, bench bench bench

column shifter, column shifter, column shifter

1. Damnit Doug you need a better microphone.

2. 5 grand for a warranty? Are you really gonna break five grand worth of stuff in a year? The AC drain issue is cheap i’ve done it myself on a number of cars, emissions probably isnt so bad. Do the math at the end and see if you came out ahead

i dunno. I get cranky and say that. And point out all my hundred plus year old hand tools and cameras and lab equipment thats still cranking, and tout the glories of my circular saw so old its getting AARP benefits, but then I get in my scion with 98,000 on the clock, which i still consider a “new” car, and remember…

Takata powered iphone cannon

I thought the point of the microbus was it was super cheap, reliable, and practical.

This isnt any of those things

You wouldn’t believe what I’ve managed to fit in my scion xd. And I’m talking farm equipment and shit.

Some drunk asshole in one of those totaled the car in front of mine and managed about a grand of damage to my car after he misjudged doing a u turn at speed in the middle of a narrow road.

Two things,

China is just playing 1:1 scale minecraft

I do the same thing on my lunch break

I mean Volvo sold about 60,000 cars in the US this year

Lincoln does about 90,000

not bad for a company with so few models and next to no dealer network

Really any car with a sticker price over maybe $40,000. I dont make that kind of money, and I would be so morbidly embarrassed to be showing off to people “look what someone else bought me with all their money!”

A few kids in my building drive G wagons and flaunt them so hard. I’m so embarrassed for them. “Look how…