My mother has purchased not one, but TWO Buick Encores. I tried to prevent the second one but she HAD to have On-star and refused to look at a Forester or CX-5, despite them ultimately being cheaper to get what she wanted.

Wrong on so many levels

What is wrong with this world?

Silly Nissan, Kicks are for kids; Jukes are for enthusiasts.

The “Instagram model” economy is an interesting beast. How people fail to see that it’s all marketing and these are paid professional “wanderes” or “fitness models” is a bit beyond me. Then again, I’m a cynical asshole, so I assume everybody is lying.

Schaefer told me over the phone he was “Sick of the normal nine-to-five grind,” and Lacefield told me she “just wanted to live a more minimal, simple life.”

I started to say that Tracy should buy it, but it runs and drives.

That’s actually something I’ve noted about Stoicism myself. The discipline was actually banned by the late Roman Empire (though, of course, certain Stoic works like Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations were retained because they were seen as “compatible” with Christianity) because it was seen as a competing doctrine with…

Relevant cartoon;

Or we could add a tax to ICE cars to pay for the extra pollution and oil production costs. There are a lot of external costs that aren’t priced into ICE cars but still end up being paid by society. You can get at the problem multiple ways but tax credits tend to be the most palatable.

An EV competing with ICE ‘on merit’ will never happen until gasoline stops being deeply incentivised, through unrealistically low taxes, and massive tax relief given to petroleum companies.

The last thing a twilight technology like ICE needs are more subsidies. We’ve been playing the “increase ICE efficiency” game for decades and my current VW Golf gets no better mileage than the one that I had in high school 30 years ago. It’s a lot bigger, faster, and more luxurious, but that’s not going to save the…

You forgot “The Thing” on the Good list.

Why would anyone trust Consumer Reports when <blanket statement shaped by misguided brand loyalty, a grudge based on experience with a 15 year-old model and Internet forum lore> contradicts <hundreds of detailed surveys, good and bad of new cars that people actually took time to fill out>?

You forgot the category “Great horror remakes” and its only entry, 1982's The Thing.

Also The Thing

Here you go. Very eco-friendly. Has e-assist so you don’t have to work too hard. Plenty of room for two kids or groceries. Get a trailer and you can haul the kids, groceries, and a stroller. Keep the 500 for your longer work trips and rent a car if you ever need to tow something. Spend the extra $20,000 on new clothes…

I’m as surprised as you

Save that shit for Car And Driver.