Gas taxes don’t just pay for wear and tear on roads. They also help offset the millions of other costs incurred by all those ICEs out there. That includes pollution, pollution-related health problems, oil wars, etc. The tax credit isn’t there to say ‘oh, you’re not damaging the road so here’s some extra money back’…

Agreed. I’ve never met an Audi owner yet who doesn’t have repair and maintenance horror stories. One of my best friends bought a late 90’s A4, the car of his dreams. He ended up selling it a few years later when it nearly put him in the poorhouse due to repair bills. None of them were even catastrophic, either - just…

This. If I owned a TDI (and I nearly bought a Jetta Sportwagen TDI a couple of years ago) I’d be demanding that VW buy it back. Not only do owners have a case that they were sold a defective vehicle fraudulently (it doesn’t do what they say it does) they’re also stuck with an expensive vehicle that literally cannot be…

Really? Churches do that? Funny, I’ve never seen it. All I ever hear is that they really, really, really, REALLY want you to hate gay people. Oh, and send money. That’s important too.

That’s the key differentiator between liberals and conservatives: conservatives lack empathy and are therefore essentially selfish. There’s plenty of gradiations along the scale, but by nature conservative thinkers simply don’t understand/care what other people experience. It’s a very mild form or sociopathy.

Because, like the vast majority of conservatives, she only gives a shit when it actually affects her. This is the Republican Empathy Gap and you see it all the time where people who’ve spent their lives fighting stem-cell research (cuz Jebus!) suddenly support it when a loved one gets Alzheimers (looking at you…

True, but seating in any middle seat tends to be that way. 99% of the time you’re going to have fewer than 5 passengers and if you regularly need to haul 6 or more, you’re going to want something bigger than this...

Seconded. I love driving my Mazda5 and got it because it was a hell of a lot sportier and smaller than the lumbering whale minivans out there. That said, I wish I could fit two full-sized bikes standing upright in my cargo area! I’d buy this lovely little toy in seconds. Offer me one with a turbo diesel and you can…

Wrong on all counts - the correct answer is the 1988 Chevy Sprint in rock-bottom trim with two doors and a stick. I got mine pre-dented and pre-rusted from my brother as a hand-me down and paid him ONE WHOLE DOLLAR. It served me well for 4 years and then was traded in for $2K off a 1991 Eagle Talon ESI.

I drove an 88 Chevy Sprint and I always wanted one of these. Same tiny, tossable, near-disposable car with a drop-top!

It’s all about the weight and handling. I learned to drive on a 1979 Mercury Grand Marquis with a 129hp V8 pumping power to the rear wheels of a 3700lb boat via a 3spd automatic. Hated driving it (and filling the tank every 50 feet) with a passion. My next car was my brother’s hand-me-down 1988 Chevy Sprint (paid $1 -…

Seconded. I had an ‘88 Chevy Sprint that was a hand-me-down from my brother. It had a nice tape deck because my brother put one in himself (didn’t come with one). No AC, no automatic, no ABS, no airbags, no intermittent wipers, manual crank windows - hell there wasn’t even a rear wiper on that hatch. It got something…

Everything you just said was completely irrelevant. I don’t care if she was the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, she still had the right to film and to speak. The proper response it instruct her to back away if she’s interfering with your duties and then warn her she’ll be arrested if she doesn’t comply. Then, if she…

You obviously don’t know where I work or who I work with. Regardless, fear of a very unlikely potential threat (more civilians are killed by criminals than cops are) doesn’t give the cop the right to assault, beat and rob a civilian who’s engaged in a constitutionally-protected activity. Christ, we’ve had major court…

Awww, the poor little heavily-armed goons are camera shy and all whiny because they can’t hide their identity more than they already do? What a pity. How sad for them that their job performance is subject to public scrutiny like everyone else on the planet. How terrible that they are forced to do their jobs in front…

Convertible driving. I don’t care what the weather is like (that’s what seat heaters are for!) but as long as something is not actually falling from the sky I want my top down. Any drive from the most boring commute to the most enthusiastic canyon-carving is improved by the open exposure to nature and the wind in my…

It sounds like everyone is lauding the old, light hatchbacks of the 80’s and 90’s, but I’ve driven those and for my money nothing beats a Mini Cooper. The originals may be even more tossable (haven’t driven one, wouldn’t know) but I owned a 2005 for years and loved its handling more than anything else about it. For…

My brother had an old Alero sedan briefly and absolutely despised it.

Yeah, that’s the upgraded steering wheel I had. Much better than the other one everyone’s been complaining about, apparently.

The giant speedo was a two-edged sword. The missus might complain, but it let you show off just how fast you were taking that curve to other driving enthusiasts.