Man that last picture of the sideview brings me right back to the early aughts when this model Focus (the base version) was like every third car on the road. Not something you see too often anymore. But I always thought the SVT was neat.

Adding my voice to the chorus of “For $27,000 I’d better be getting air conditioning”. It’s a ND from me.

We could, I dunno, have limits on the width, length and height of non-commercial vehicles.

How in the hell do they justify doing THREE $1500 “service inspections”. If I’m gonna pay $1.5k for an inspection, you better goddamn find everything you’re looking for the first goddamn time.

I’m gonna add my voice to the “actually the stock exhaust is quite loud” chorus.

This is the world we live in. We are all now beta testers, like it or not. We are the variables by being outside, in public.

Yeah, the whole “I want this soulless dehumanizing thing to succeed, but where’s the soul? Where’s the human?” whiplash was jarring.

I can somewhat understand someone trying to humanize a relative that did something like this, but they’re usually a bit more subdued and humble. “A good kid” or “Loved his family” I would understand, but “supersoldier patriot bomb expert” is a step too far I think.

While some appear to be turning against their dear leaders over the perceived immigration betrayal, I’m willing to bet most will just blindly accept whatever Trump/Musk say they want to do.

First of all, Matt Gaetz changed his whole ass Twitter name and handle to say “Former Congressman Matt Gaetz”? I almost would have thought that was a parody account.

Pretty great and cool that this guy is just openly mocking the fact that he and his companies were under investigation but now that’ll all go away since he bought himself an election.

Judging by how good these things seem to be handling their first winter, I’m not sure Canada is going to be too welcoming.

Yeah that suggestion confused me, because like, from what they’re saying, requiring (likely expensive) inspections that would take “bad” cars off the road would also make it prohibitive for poor people to be able to own and operate vehicles. 

I agree on red light cameras - we know how they work in practice, they are simply revenue generators that are shady as hell and don’t actually result in fewer accidents (and in some cases it can be argued they cause more accidents). A lot of times they simply ticket people for “rolling right turns” in areas where…

The amount of lifted gigantic trucks selling like hotcakes says otherwise.

I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Are you saying people shouldn’t go too fast in the passing lane? Or are they not going fast enough?

I keep seeing photos like this where Musk looks awkwardly photoshopped into the scene, but apparently they’re all real and he really is just lurking creepily behind people like that.

I would much rather drive one of these adorable little guys than the massive monster trucks that have far less actual utility that are currently clogging up US roadways.

Judging by the amount of monster-truck-sized vehicles I see riding asses and barreling down highways every single day, it definitely seems pretty controversial.

We should have pretty strict size restrictions on how big civilian vehicles can be. Trucks these days can’t even fit to established parking spaces. They block other vehicles’ sight lines on the road, they are unable to see pedestrians or other obstacles and hazards over their massive hoods, and their overcompensating…