By that logic nobody needs CUVs, either, yet they sell like crazy in all sorts of sizes now while wagons are pretty much extinct.

Well, the part of the wall he crashed through was mostly window, not cinder block. I think it’s a safe bet that while the outside wall absorbed some impact, it didn’t entirely alleviate it.

Eh, I’m sure you’d be fine in a Prius.

Well, he’s in critical condition, so it’s more like survival*.

Potentially, but the car did make it pretty far into the building, and the I think front of the car was still sheared enough to fit INTO the doorway. I’m not physics student let alone professor, but getting to that point had to involve at least some amount of irregular force on that wall.

Slow clap comment of the day

Definitely a hole in one.

You know it’s a bad sign of styling movements to come when a Mustang, of all cars, is wearing the lines of the new Prius...

Ya, these toll avoidance tricks seem like they’re easy to pull off, but in reality it’s quite hard. I think the logistical issue isn’t so much the police detecting the trick at a toll stop/pass-thru, it’s the fact that there are other drivers behind the offending car, who can see the trick be put into action, and be…

I’ll take Ring Brothers or Singer. But I tend to be a car guy, and since Icon does trucks, I don’t see myself in their rides as easily as I would a Singer 911.

Speaking to their talk about the relative value of the Hellcat versus the Viper, the Viper has never been a value car. It has always cost a lost of money to buy, particularly if you look at the 1G Vipers. Those were basically an aggressive body attached to a huge engine with a manual transmission, and that was about…

Well, seeing as how billionaires drop 8 figures on far slower cars of much greater age, I’m guessing the E30 M3 market is on to something. I’m just half-shocked the prices are what they are.

Look on AutoTrader. most are trading at $50k and above. At some point in the last 2 years the E30 market went mental.

Alright, I thought this was an immediate CP because I thought E30 M3 prices hadn’t gone into the mid $30k range yet.

This is one of my guilty wants too. Love those things in that blue.

Drives like a 14 year-old BMW that is a sought-after classic that’s going up in value because it’s the last of its kind. Except with the Chevy you get reliability and modern conveniences at a lower price.

Well, the alternative is to bro-out like the Charger SRT8. Now, I don’t necessarily dislike how the Charger SRT8 looks, but it’s not exactly refined in that sense. The SS is far more refined in just about every way, including interior materials. I tested a ‘14 SS recently and the interior was much better in person…

Much better than the G8. The G8 was cleanly styled inside but 00s plasticky in a Toyota Matrix kind of way. The SS is clearly a better, more modern, updated machine with every bauble (blind spot monitoring, self-park, heated and cooled seats, MRC, nav, LTE) you could want short of massaging seats and HVAC perfume. It…

Not going to disagree per se, but the Traverse does have more interior volume than a Tahoe, and not that much less than a Suburban. So, it’s not exactly lacking in space. The minivans can make their seats disappear, whereas the Traverse cannot, but beyond that, the Traverse will have as much kid-friendly stuff as the…

Yep. This is exactly what I tell people when they say GM should just kill the GMC Sierra and just make the Silverado. GM doesn’t work that way. Never has.