Tons it would seem - I see the same cars stay in within the same few blocks week after week

The stereotype of NYC is that of a city that HATES CARS and those who have them have to FIGHT over an incredibly limited number of parking spaces to shove their TINY vehicles.

RIP to the normal golf in the US, but agreed that the base Golf was too often overlooked as a great car. The 1.8L had the same power as a Corolla hatch but 200lbft of torque at 1800rpm - 50 more than the Corolla. In a car that small, that’s tons of fun without being dangerously fast.

Hard disagree - A GTI gives you two things that a new driver doesn’t need: tons of power and non-linear power delivery thanks to the turbo.

A de-escalator at the back of the march attempted to get Kahane to wait, but he hit her with his car anyway. A second de-escalator then sat in front of his car to prevent him from driving into the crowd, but was later arrested.

You would think places like NYC with a city-wide 25mph (or lower) speed limit would have tons of these, but no, people drive a ton of regular-ass sized cars.

‘96 Mazda Millenia NA 2.5 - under light to medium acceleration, everything was fine; the car delivered decent power/torque and satisfying engine sound.

Good example of a cheap car. If you’re already strapped for cash, it’s a much better investment to get a car already in good shape that will be inexpensive to keep running. I bought a stupid low mileage 3rd gen Honda Fit and it was such a good choice, both for quality of interior wear/tear and ultimately for resale…

Sure, but as far as worrying about buying used or older EVs, the vast majority sold are still “young” enough to be covered

The Census data that gives us the 12.5 year average also notes that, if you remove light trucks (pickups and SUVs), the average goes up to 13.6 years, so those sedan folks are in it for the long haul, it seems.

I understand Jersey being on the list - the NJ Turnpike seems purposefully designed to make you screw up exits and interchanges constantly.

This is why it’s reassuring that California requires EV manufacturers to warranty the battery for 10 years, which is how David Tracy replaced the battery in his cheap i3 battery for a brand new one

I don’t know how it applies to the scale of rental car businesses, but generally, business tax rules let you write off the vehicle depreciation over a fixed period of time. It sounds like the value of the cars dropped faster than that, at which point they lost the tax advantage of keeping the cars around, and it makes…

I’ve had enough catastrophic failures of radiators, idle pulleys, timing belts, and tires that I don’t even listen to music while driving most of the time; I’m just waiting to hear something go wrong.

I saw that someone already mentioned this issue with their Suburban, but replacing a headlight bulb in a 02 Mazda Millenia.

It feels crazy to say this, but that back end looks pretty generic nowadays.

Jealous - I’ve had self dimming center mirrors, but TBH I had no idea it existed for the sides

It’s never the oncoming traffic I have issues with - it’s that my side mirrors are completely unusable when driving at night because both blast bright light in my face. All I can do is angle them further out to keep the direct glare off of my face, and hopefully point them back at the offending vehicle for a taste of…

Is it nice for traffic on the road to move over, if able, to make room for the merging traffic, absolutely! But it is still the merging vehicle’s responsibility to find an opening, and that might mean they have to let a few cars pass them by before it opens; there’s nothing that says you have to end your merge in…

Honda hasn’t had an EV until this year, so doubtful. I bet it’s more related to the number of times I’ve heard/read “I went to go check out ____ EV at my local dealer, and no one knew anything about it and it wasn’t even charged!”