The M4 is $20k more and it's hideous.

Even at the 4x speed it didn’t seem bad. If you’re waiting until the cross-traffic is fully through the intersection to start accelerating, you’re holding everyone up unnecessarily.

Of all the turbo hatchbacks, the Mazda3 would’ve been the last one I expected to not offer 3 pedals. I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.

Isn’t this illegal from a public exposure standpoint? And it's made especially for a car that has a glass roof? This shit is bananas.

The answer is that it stops where reasonable people can agree. Since that evidently doesn’t include you, I’d say that it stops at the point where the protective area is breached by breaking glass, or if a weapon is presented that can cause harm through said glass (e.g. firearm). Those are the situations where the…

Fear is subjective, so it can’t be used in a rational argument, otherwise you’ll allow for skittish people to overreact, and for malicious people to claim they’re skittish people who overreacted.

First off, no one’s life was threatened verbally or physically here. Was a knife visible here at any point? You can’t shoot someone because you thought they may have a knife and you thought they might use it.

Are you advocating for the use of deadly force in response to what could happen? Was any glass broken in this case?

Definitely a non-zero possibility in the world of OTA updates.

Did someone say “hot segment”?

Not to mention that this is their once-per-decade flash in the pan. Everything is new now, but they'll let it die on the vine like always. 

It’s not the past checks, but rather the future checks he laments. Fewer models = fewer commercials = fewer checks.

The issue is that loan extension allows for further stretching of finances to buy vehicles people can’t afford. Keep in mind that depreciation doesn’t care what your loan term is, so longer terms equals people further upside down for longer. We’ve seen how many people struggle to deal with 3 months of income…

The vast majority of millionaires are self-made.

Buying new cars is probably the single-most impactful choice that keeps people from being millionaires. 

I feel like there are ways in which the Europe system is worse. A lightweight, efficient car in the US still helps your CAFE rating, a similar crossover even more so. Efficiency is still the goal, albeit within arbitrary classifications.

Pure EVs are impractical until infrastructure can improve greatly and technology improves incrementally. PHEVs are a good bridge. 

Basically Europe has done with weight what the US did with arbitrary CAFE "light trucks"? Why can't anyone get this right? 

Return of the sealed beam headlight? This time with modular LED bars!

Isn’t the point of a full-size truck that you no longer have to make blind turns? Isn’t visibility what the whole sit-up-high movement is based on?