The door didn’t actually break, the door cards popped out (which they also did in the F150). Car doors generally aren’t designed to be slammed that hard, plus with truck doors they are heavy and thus carry even more energy.

If you are talking about drop, the bumper does nothing to protect the subframe because they smacked into it from the bottom. If you look at how bumpers are designed, they protect against rear ending but do nothing to protect against impact from the bottom.

Same thought. It’s negligence not to check a license, but it’s not necessarily reasonable to expect dealers to check arrest records, as not every county allows you to do so, nor necessarily is it easy for someone to know where to look it up.

Yeah when a dog is referred in any way as an emotional support animal, it’s complete BS and not a service animal, as protected by ADA. Too many people try to pull this BS in order to get their pets into places that don't allow pets. A service animal is very a different thing.

Yep, California lawmakers tried to redefine contractor to somehow exclude Uber/Lyft in a very contrived way (no logical definition of contractor would have excluded Uber/Lyft), but in the process they also excluded many other professions (including freelance writers), then they had to rush and push amendments to carve…

In Teslas you can use a pin number protected speed limit mode which limits the max speed and acceleration of the car. You can also further put it in Valet mode to limit things further. Any parent with a young teen driver should probably use those features.

But they do crash test for minimum standards as required by federal law. The issue here is more with the more detailed star rating. That part is optional.

 Nope, same deal with me also on Mobile Chrome.

Yeah, I get the idea totally for appliance cars, it just doesn't fit well with an M5.

Yep, I see this all the time with premium cars. Their car body might be clean, but the brake dust on the wheels is fairly obvious.

It's the same reason why cars still have fake grills and vents, people are used to seeing them and find it harder to accept when they are missing.

Yeah, ironically an electric M5 likely would be much lighter and perform better. Or on the flip side, I’m not sure what is the point of adding so much PHEV range. This makes this neither fish nor fowl, which has been a long running issue with PHEVs.

For Europe, maybe they have initiatives against one time use products (like paper cups like is more common here), so they provide mugs instead.

I think most offices there are office supplies that mysteriously disappear, although typically not this blatantly.

Using the passive voice makes it sound like there was no one in the car when in fact the driver was there the whole time. It reminds me of the whole BMW tire pressure post that got famous here (owner also used a passive voice to make it sound like he wasn’t the one driving).

I don’t know if this applies to this particular department, but there are some that have a hard time finding replacement because no one wants to be a cop in their department, so they give a ton of leeway. Bad cops also would tend to get into those departments even if they are unwanted elsewhere.

Again it depends on what you are hauling. The sedan having technically more cubic feet matters when you are hauling cargo that fits in the opening (as is the case for airport runs or road trips). So it may have more “cargo room” in that regard.

The article claims the sedan is 4 inches longer than the hatchback. I think that is true of the 2023 model, as the sedan is 184 inches, and the hatch is 179 inches. The 2024 model the hatchback and sedan is the same length in the spec, but not sure where that length came from.

I think he is pointing out that most sedans are longer than hatchbacks of the same model, with most of the extra length going behind the rear wheels, which means the trunk of the sedan is actually longer and better fit for cargo like suitcases, when making a trip with both rows occupied.

But investors look at the numbers from the automaker and not the registration numbers. Yes, sometimes they match, but they may not always match because of how inventory shifts.