Don’t blame it all on the poor infrastructure (although I do acknowledge its a big factor). You need to take some responsibility for making choices about where you live that has ruled out cycling for you.

If you want to commute by bicycle, you need to prioritize that in your life. If its something you want to do, you can, easily if you just put the effort into it. I have lived in suburban areas, I’ve lived in urban cities, small rural communities and now a somewhat isolated city of about 90k in snow country, and I have…

Had the Eastern Block survived beyond the late 80s, early 90s, this car would have been a terrific licensing deal for a communist automaker looking to develop their next model...

Its not a fact that it lacks rain sensors, or that it lacks intermittent settings.

I’d say this is a good guess. Probably the stalk simply turns on or off the automatic rain sensing wipers, and then you can choose if you want to override that setting with just fast or slow on the screen. The stalk probably also allows single swipes and sprayers too.

Want to see what a 1980 BMW e21 with just 214,596 miles on the clock looks like?

If I had a million dollars...

Huh. Seems a bit like cherry picking data, if I’m honest.

I see your super slow e30 and raise you one even slower, dented and rusty e21 with 200k+ miles on the original M10 with Bosch’s wacky CIS fuel injection...

Um, the link you provided says California’s energy mix is 40.61% carbon (coal and natural gas), and 9.81% for nuclear.

Garage kept?

No. This is such a stretch, its ridiculous.

Teslas have Tunein, which lets you stream an absolute crap ton of radio stations (AM, FM, foreign).

Ok, but explain this phenomenon:

Ja! Genau! Danke!

Ug. If only...

YOLO!

Nope. Not a Volvo. There’s not enough clear lense on the 740 to match the pieces, and the 240 had either reflectors, or giant faceted lenses. That, and a car that old wouldn’t have plastic looking that nice.

Thanks for regurgitating the standard marketing lines. Now, lets take each one of your points that you list, and look at them a bit closer:

Pick up trucks are bad at carrying people, and a lot of people who buy trucks like these crew cab trucks use them to commute to work by themselves. I’m not saying they can’t carry people, but the marketing people have fooled a ton of people into thinking that trucks are just great for carrying people.