“Ford tried it a few years ago and then abandoned small cars in the US altogether,”

As far as I am concerned (past owner of a 1970 Beetle and 1974 Super Beetle), the two generations of “new beetles” were not real beetles, just tributes. Or a nostalgia cash grab.

2018 World Cup revenue: $6.1B

NWSL average attendance: 6000 per game

Total tickets sold at U.S. games since September 1, 2018:

My Miata has the HID headlights.  The first time I drove at night it was just so friking amazing.  Good headlights should be standard.

Yeah, the UAW is corrupt. But VW management probably treats their workers better because they know that the the workers would join the UAW if they didn’t.

I used a sliderule my freshman year of college (engineering).  My sophmore year  “inexpensive” scientific calculators like the TI SR-50 came out and there was a massive switchover.  The speed that it happened at makes smartphone adoption look like a snails pace.

“As far as I can tell there’s a sub 30k vehicle in every category but wagons right now.”

“Stealing Content”? The snippet that is posted on Google News is usually just the article headline - well within ‘Fair Use’.

“Why did the A.V. Club feel compelled to amplify these fringe beliefs?”

We have a megadealer in the DC area, Ourisman, that adds a $995 reconditioning fee to all used cars.  This fee isn’t mentioned on websites like cars.com.

We’ve had pet rats. We’ve also had guinea pigs. Rats were the far better pets.  

We had a rental Altima a couple of years ago. It’s now a standing joke in our family, and I doubt that any of us will willingly go to a Nissan dealer.

When I was used car shopping I used Carfax to weed out any car that had been registered in a snow state.

“I mean, just get one from a non rust state”

“I think you may have entirely missed the point of hybrids...”

Drove a rental Focus w/ an automatic two years ago. At first I thought it was broken, and then remembered that the auto was a well known piece of crap.

I had a 1979 Malibu wagon. With the 305V8. stick shift.

“Sports cars are wasteful consumption”