I thought it was the insurance industry that pushed for it to be included in cars, but I’m probably wrong. I hated those things. Always got caught in them and you ended up putting on a lap belt anyway, so what was the point?

I remember when everyone laughed at Honda, Yugo, Hyundai and Kia. They filled an important need - cheap cars that people could easily fix or repair and also sipped gas. Frankly I would love to see more of the Chinese cars because they’re clearly better anything the Big 3 are pumping out, as already shown in Europe.

Take your damn star!

Every flight has a manifest of passengers, seat assignments and also any needs like special meals, etc. I’ve seen crew members double checking the number of people on the flight and butts in seats. If something doesn’t add up then they ask questions.

THIS! We had a Mazda B2000 pickup truck. It was a small no frills crap wagon, but it was a workhorse for us. Loved it. Those would sell like hotcakes.

So much for Ford’s “Quality Is Job 1" slogan. More like “Kuality”.

Obligatory reference to Risky Business:

Another squid making all other motorcycle riders look bad. I see similar behavior here in the Bay Area. All it takes is one move from a car, hitting a wet patch, etc. and it’s game over.

San Francisco is pretty bad - the police don’t enforce anything and everyone knows it. People breeze through red lights and stop signs all the time.

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A colleague had an 850CSi coupe - great car but it was a maintenance nightmare. It had 2 of everything which cost $$$

Agreed!

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Yeah old news - this has been a thing for years. You’re probably spot on that someone in Congress was impacted by this and decided to selectively enforce this.

We have a similar thing here in the Bay Area - people living on boats for the same reason.

I recently did some international travel from Asia to the US, and no forms needed on either end. I almost always expect a form for the US, but this time it was literally 10 seconds - walked up, handed over my passport, was asked what I had, and then I was gone.

Yeah - there are a lot of great small cars outside of the US that I wish they sold here, as those would be selling like hotcakes. Every car here is just ridiculously oversized for no reason. I miss those 80's-90's small crapwagons that were great for mileage, cheap, and relatively reliable.

A nice selection of cars in this list.

+MAX_INT for this comment!

I’m surprised someone hasn’t done that yet, however that would cause a lot of collateral damage, which wouldn’t be good. Then the Feds will get involved.