There are thousands in this world who mistake overthinking for brilliance, then waste their time trying to prove it. If you’re in an arena among some of the greatest engineers assembled in your field, and you’re the only one doing something for an extended period of time, you’re likely overthinking it.

How many people have 1 kid and immediately purchase a Chevy Traverse or Honda Pilot? When I was in that stage of life (my youngest is now 10), the people who asked if we were ‘saving up’ for a bigger vehicle when I had my now 15 and 12 year old in car seats in the back of a coupe. No, I’m not saving up to a future…

I had 3 car seats across in a Pontiac Vibe, it can be done. The bigger seats were even Recaros, not exactly small for bolstering.

I’m the dad in a family of 5, we have a 2009 Pontiac Vibe and a 2013 Chrysler Town & Country. When you buy the right cars for your family, you can go for a decade without a car payment.

Thorstein Veblen agrees with you.

Can’t you just feel the freedom and self-determination?

I figured the leopards would eat the other people’s faces prior to eating mine!

Add a supercharger. It’ll be a Leaf blower.

Counterpoint: The Merritt is awesome, it’s ever-increasing size of vehicles that is the problem.

You know what also would lessen congestion on I-95 in CT? Not having CT drivers slow to a crawl every time there is a hill or curve that they can’t see past. Never seen a more brake-happy state in my life.

Someone still needs to convince her though... 

Congrats on being 2% of actual truck buyers who need and use their truck.

Then you would need to use the verb with you in the subject, rather than leave yourself as the object of comparison.

Me.

Driving to Michigan around Christmas (2008) we were on the highway when freezing rain moved through where we were headed. It put 1-2" of ice on everything that wasn’t an interstate. I pulled off to put fuel in the car not realizing that the on-ramps were closed, everywhere, and no traffic was getting put back onto the…

The issue with the Crosstour is packaging. Tallish rear seats with a low roofline is cramped, and the price wasn’t far enough away from the Pilot, which also gave you 7-seat options. Add to it that proportions were an absolute mess, there was no styling reason or status reason to take it over the Pilot.

Need a breadvan Prius V of this for people who move more than themselves to offices.

If only GM had tracked his plane, maybe he’d have bought them.

Paraphrasing Eddie Izzard, the international community has always been sort of fine with leaders who kill or harm their own people. After a few years of killing people next door, the world will have to step on with sanctions and maybe actions eventually.