I’m going NP as it’s clean, low-mileage rarity that will be as effective as migrane-strength Excedrin for easing a stress—related headache. It’s one of those cars that few will recognize or appreciate, but if you want a car that’s truly for your own enjoyment and not for showing off, this can’t be beat.

Their are bikes out there that aren’t Harleys or Japanese racer replicas. You just need to go into the showroom to find them as they don’t sell in big numbers. For instance here is a great starter bike you won’t outgrow but with Japanese reliability.

As it turns out, making attractive models at reasonable prices, while focusing on improving pain points like build quality and reliability, is a good recipe for growing sales over the long term.  

ROFLMAO at the thought that that hypocritical weasel Ken Paxton gives a shit about Texans’ privacy. If Allstate used that data to snitch on customers who drive too close to an abortion clinic, he’d be celebrating and offering them immunity.

A Brussels Crunch?

Brussels Nose Dive

Chevy HHR panel as an outlier; but the Transits/NVs are probably the answer.

Boeing planes are manufactured with all the safety, attention, and care of a Cybertruck.

Wow it looks... the same as it did before!

30k cars a year is a sustainable quantity. I bet there are a bunch of chinese car makers who would gladly fill that niche if given the opportunity.

In terms of raw depreciation in dollars, a new Mirage for $12k has to have the lowest potential depreciation of any car on the market. Even with 100k on the clock 10 years from now, there will be a floor for a running car of at least a few grand. You basically can’t ever lose more than $10k by owning one of these.

The issue is that Honda does not do BoF and RWD (except special cases like S2000 and NSX). Unibody construction makes the most sense up to a point, and that point is the Ridgeline. Go any larger than the Ridgeline and BoF is a better manufacturing process (lighter and much cheaper to build). Of course, the trade-offs…

The result of the Honda / Nissan / Mitsubishi merger will be a simple case of what each one of them does well, and what the others don’t do at all.

I called that for Honda as soon as I heard about the merger.

I see cars like these that are half the new car average selling price, cost virtually nothing to maintain, very little to drive regularly, and have good resale values, and scratch my head at people buying $50K gas guzzlers while complaining about egg prices.  A car is a depreciating asset.  Buy something cheap to own…

This list is practically every hybrid car on the market within the price range. The only ones excluded are listed as “not tested” by CR.

It’s not YOU hitting them, it’s SOMEONE ELSE parking by “braille” into you.

I think spookiness is talking about having to parallel park with the unwashed masses rather than your parking skill. :) I still see some Chicagoans park “by braille” and they don’t even have the courtesy to leave a note behind after leaving a mark on someone else’s bumper.

I mean, a cutesy name didn’t stop Honda from dominating the world with something called the Super Cub.

I have never been even the tiniest bit interested in having or riding a motorcycle, but that thing is gorgeous.  Making me bikecurious?