Your argument is valid and cogent with one exception: Artificially low speed limits.

Fuck speed cameras.

Last weekend I was car shopping. I drove the BMW M240i as a proxy for the manual M2 they had on the lot, and the only nice things I have to say for that car is that the ride was incredibly solid and the sound dampening was great. Otherwise, the steering was dead. The pedals were dead. The exhaust note was dead. The…

Designing in the landscape of now, which is judged according to preceding realities.

so they are lower middle class in SF then...

Because nobody buys them except you. profit margins are so much slimmer on top of that too.

The rest of the world wishes they can drive the “bloated” cars American drive. Have you seen what European expats do when they transfer to America?

Go ahead, keep up the meme that Americans buy SUV’s because carmakers FORCE us to. There is no basis in fact for that.

methinks you think far more about the “derp staters” then they think about you

And so, the veneer falls away, and we’re left with a failing company helmed by a narcissist. But please, keep investing.

It tells women how to take care of themselves and their cars, and reminds them to always carry a gun.

I’m not sure what your point is. Those old HVAC systems sucked because they were primitive, not because they were controlled by a slider. Nobody said “I want 1960's HVAC technology to come back.”

Try to stay focused.

That is a good looking car.

Words have no power by themselves. They are neutral. People give words power. We teach each other through our reactions to words. At one point in time, “nigger” had a different connotation. I’m sorry, but you can’t have the majority of the black community casually calling each other “nigger,” or “nigga” in a friendly…

There’s no way that a registration system would shut down trafficking. Doubly so if people are required to pay for insurance. Having grown up in the country, you should know that.

p.s. you guys wouldn’t believe the way people started interpereting the 2nd amendment after 1977.

“Irregardless”

See...you make the mistake of assuming that eye-rolling at anti-Trump rhetoric makes me pro-Trump. Nope. He gets very little respect from me. I just find the usual “orange man” thoughts boring and useless.

I for one welcome the disappearance of the teeny tiny turbo engine for a larger displacement NA engine that actually gets better fuel economy under normal driving conditions. Oh. Wait. Toyota already does that.

Reverse: My gut sense is the EPA targets for 2025 were a little ambitious and depending on what the new standards are might be a acceptable compromise. I don’t think it will stop the push to electrics though. I’d hope the US OEMs would continue to develop and innovate powertrain technology and not fall behind the rest…