If Putin had bothered to learn real history instead of made-up history, possibly this exercise in futility could have been avoided.

Yeah around me $1.5M gets you a 1200sqft condo with a 1 car garage *and* a $500/month HOA payment.

Suggestion for next time (from almost the same era): Mazda Protege MP3!

I agree, but if Toyota and Honda can survive with Corollas and Civics in their fleet, then I’d think that either Ford and/or GM could do the same. They’re just proving the decades incompetence of their strategy and marketing departments.

Did you ever try putting the windows down? I’ve read that with the windows down it has enough buffeting to shake your teeth loose.

1. Musk better watch out that he doesn’t piss off the unstable guy with a spy network and deadly radiological and nerve-agent weapons.

Oh come on, you know the Michael Bay movie would have not ended with a tuck & roll. She would have shot out the tires, causing the BMW to flip 50 feet into the air, and then explode behind her as she walked back to the race finish line in slow motion.

Agreed. It is amazing how people are happy paying $50K for a new vehicle (as long as monthly payment fits) and then complain about paying an extra $1-2/gallon for gas. If you can’t fit an extra $500-1000 in your yearly budget to cover higher fuel payments, you really can’t afford the payments on the vehicle either.
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Because it’s economically unfeasible to make small cars, even if people wanted them.

Lucid did that; it gets 520 miles. No EV is getting 600-1200 miles of range based on packaging.

The child part of me thinks this would be cool. The adult part of me thinks that running around for 2 days LARPing with a bunch of rich parents / kids would be incredibly awkward and cringeworth.

Also, tell your family to buy it online and save the trip:

This letter shows obvious pro-oil bias. It’s pretty much shilling for Big Oil. My EV has a reply:

The outlet reports a group of 92 Republicans sent a letter to the TSA “demanding” the mask mandate end by March 18.

Metaverse is not the same as NFT:

People made money off of Lindens back in the day.

People who want a car without all the bells and whistles need to buy the Honda. Acura exist to sell the bells, whistles, and just a tiny smidge of status-appeal (vs. Honda), too.

I think you’re exaggerating a *lot* to get to that $45K price. Remember, the current ILX is pretty much loaded at $33K. This vehicle will be a few $K’s more, but I doubt it’ll exceed $35K with the MT.

Haven’t we already fallen off this slope? ...if it gets anywhere near the US, we can just send some local police out and let them use civil asset forfeiture laws to declare the property guilty until proven innocent, right?

I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, so let me say: YOU DO NOT NEED 4WD IN NEW JERSEY! Driving around in a suburban / urban area with good plowing means that 4WD is just a marketing gimmick that eats your gas mileage. (Unless it’s a sporty car, in which case it could make the car a bit faster.)