I think you’ve sidestepped a very simple answer - no one likes to see their icons shilling for something as base and ephemeral as a political campaign. Heroes are meant to last, and this dulls the shine.

“What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?”

CP, if nothing else then due to a seller with zero credibility.

2001: A Space Odyssey would have about a 20% then, if that.

I hated the trailers I’ve seen, because they look like someone took a Terry Gilliam film, tried to figure out how to make it come across as marketable, and threw those bits in a blender. I look forward to seeing the film.

Depending on how it’s designed, you would be bypassing its primary and default mode of operation (see above.) You could also shift an automatic directly into 1, then 2, then 3 - IMO, and by my definition, that doesn’t make it a manual.

There’s other disturbing details, such as the dealership misrepresenting the miles on the ‘Vette after it was returned (they listed 7,813, when it was actually over 7,820).

And now you know... the rest of the story.

I suppose the rest of the decision comes down to whether you’d rather drive a car with the worst visibility on the market, or instead put up with a bunch of Cars & Coffee jokes at every track day you go to.

Did anyone else hear Sam Kinison?

TDI Sportwagen, depending on how it checks out.

The swap is a 6-speed, which was paired with the V6 in the Accord. The 4-cylinders only got the 5-speed for manual.

You keep calling this a key. I don’t see a key. This is a fob, or if you like, a dongle.

In fact, the IIHS recommends parents to get a bigger and heavier car over a newer and smaller car for the same price. It conducted some crash tests using a smaller car and a larger car. The crash test dummy in the smaller car was more likely to sustain injuries and suffer from trauma to the head.

more buttons than a Coraline Convention.

I find this stuff funnier when it’s wrapped in dry sounding engineering-speak, especially if you can look the speaker in the eye (or imagine the look on their face) and pretty much know that they mean exactly this.

Vehicle Stability Assist

It really doesn’t have anything to do with you or your driving

What rolling coal looks like in the future.

https://jalopnik.com/parents-just-buy-the-damn-minivan-1597502940