There are lots of things, mainly knowledge retention and application. Specifically, I have noticed a dangerous trend in my area concerning right of way etiquette: “Dangerous courtesy”

My take is this: the sales process at many dealerships is designed to weed out people that are prepared, patient and informed. Good dealerships will cut the BS and provide a good experience, and in my experience they are outnumbered by Bad dealerships.

Why did they opt for the cheesiest, most tacky looking speakers on the market?

The bumper-to-overall length ratio is obscene

The Y is worse than the 3, IMO

Seeing as it’s special circumstances and all, my manager says I can knock $50 off that down payment!

The default sales guy for me is always William H. Macy. Friendly, persistent and infuriating.

The unorganized mess of numbers, write-ins, circles and arrows is giving me anxiety. The “outdoor” price floating by itself at the bottom, jammed up against some nondescript numbers is just icing on the cake (are people supposed to understand what 52167K32A008MSRP56484 means??).

The circled “outdoor” number doesn’t even look like a legitimate line item in the quote! It looks like some kind of standard footer code for the sales document itself.

I said Honda manuals on non-sporty models are pretty good overall. In my experience, sporty Hondas are given a little extra attention when it comes to shifting.

To be clear, the excellent shift action in the Integra Type-S manual does not exist on all manual Hondas. The silky-smooth, bolt-action feel is reserved only for sporty models like the Civic Si/R, S2000, TSX, Type-S Acuras, etc. The manual transmission on “regular” Hondas is a clear step down from those models but…

I suspect it wouldn’t perform well in pedestrian crash testing.  This might be part of the reason you can’t pre-order a Cybertruck in Germany or England, for example.

OK, and?

I know people that have range anxiety for no good reason. For example: they know 98% of their trips will be less than 150 miles round trip, they know a full charge will give them 300 miles of range, they know they can charge the car every night - but they are STILL afraid of running short on range. Selling them an EV…

One would think the extinguishers installed on an EV with lithium batteries would be designed specifically for lithium fires. Maybe the blaze was simply too big for the amount of extinguishers on board?

This brings up an interesting question: in the USA can you still buy - or when was the last time you could buy - a car with manual crank windows?

I remember when the FX first came out. There was one on display at the local mall. It looked like the batmobile and rode on 20" wheels from the factory, which was practically unheard of at the time.

Everything I’ve read indicates that a 100% coal-powered EVs are at least as clean and usually cleaner than an equivalent ICE when it comes to CO2 emissions per mile. The reality is, very few EVs around the world rely purely on electricity generated from coal. It is usually a mix of sources.

2-stroke engines are far dirtier and noisier than your Honda mower. IMO replacing 2-strokes with battery equivalents should take priority when replacing one’s collection of lawn tools.

Until charging becomes “easy” for the average consumer, there will always be asymmetry in this kind of stuff. Nobody wants to think about the nuances of the charger or their car. People just want to plug in and go. Much like you and I can pull up to any given fuel pump in the country and expect roughly the same rate…