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find leather to be more sustainable

Most countries have intelligence agencies. Russia is an intellegence agency that happens to have a country. 

Could you please keep these opinions to yourself for at least another 2-3 years? I should have garage space available by then to own a 996/986 Porsche, and I feel that the fried-egg sentiment is one opinion that is helping keep those prices at least semi-sane for the time being.

That’s for the entire country for all of 2020? That seems incredibly low.

Literally every study ever done indicates that cyclists do a better job of obeying the rules of the road than car drivers.

Feel free to explain how this cyclist was the problem:

Which is why I gave up road biking years ago and finally sold off my motorcycles last year. If I get hurt mountain biking or snow biking it’s my fault. 

Yes! Enforce the law on all speeding cars, distracted drivers, and cars rolling through stop signs. It is the car that kills. 

Right hooks in protected bike lanes also kill. 

I mean, it doesn’t seem like much of a choice to me? The Miata is a car, and this is not. I’m sure it’s lots of fun, and I support vehicles that exist for the purpose of fun and not producing impressive-looking numbers. Just, let it stand on its own as a fun toy instead of trying to justify it against actually-usable…

I am aware of the concept of speedsters, but come on—how many people actually want to live with one? You don’t have to be so pedantic.

You wrote, “It’s got a manual transmission, a rev-happy engine up front, rear-wheel drive, a tendency toward oversteer. If Mazda dropped a new Miata with those figures, every single person reading this would be crying joyful tears...”

Muahahaha!

We had an ElantraGT club back when it was just a nifty 135hp Saab 93 hatch rip-off and always wished Hyundai would spawn a performance brand to match the SVTs, SRT4s and Mazdaspeeds (if not the WRX and Evo). Why not a turbo?? How about a manual RWD hatchback??? We would wonder. “Nobody buys that!” We’d hear. Now we…

This is a myth pushed hard by manufacturers trying to justify dropping cars. Because cars sell fine, even with no marketing support and an infamous transmission the Focus could easily sell over 100,000 units. The Fusion was regularly selling over 200,000 units annually when it was cancelled.

Montana went to a fixed speed limit because someone fought a speeding ticket (in an R&P zone) to a sufficiently high court level. The fatality rate from collisions hit an all time low under R&P and increased dramatically once it was replaced with a fixed speed limit.

There is no reason the speed limit on a divided freeway outside populated city centers should be any lower than 100mph.