You drive it for two years then buy another one!

I have driven one of these. Its biggest problem is that it leans much more on luxury than performance, and for the price you can get a much better sports car for the money. Luxury buyers may find it too impractical. 

The sound and interior are delicious though. It’s also one of the few applications of the Lexus styling…

I’m totally on board with this. Not a lot of color available on cars lately, we need some weird stuff. 

Nice selection! Yeah, just something about the feel of the cars since the late 2000s just hasn’t done it for me. Could be the electric steering? The move away from N/A straight sixes is definitely part of it too.

Oh well. It’s not like they don’t have enough customers to make up for the loss of my business, lol. 

God, progress really neutered this poor company. You can call me a “purist” all you want, they just don’t make anything I want anymore. Am I old?

I actually ruled out a car I otherwise liked based on how cheap the turn signal stalk felt. People are weird.

I actually disagree completely with you, and I’m not a huge fan of Toyota interiors. Taste is so subjective

Reminds me of the 05 Altima I had. It was a V6, so it could scoot to 60 reasonably quickly, but that was about the only interesting thing about it and the novelty wears off pretty quickly. 

Huh. An article with “fucking” in the title heaping praise on a mildly quick crossover.

Have we reached peak GMG Jalop?

To be fair, GM did also eviscerate a name with pedigree on a bland crossover, the Blazer.

They’re trying!

Fiberglass? I’m seeing plastic and metal here.

-Heartless pedant

“I certainly follow the all motorcycles are reckless assholes line of thinking until I’m shown otherwise.”

So by your own admission, you can add stuff like: Motorcyclist sitting at a stop light - reckless idiot. Riding down the street at the speed limit - reckless idiot.

Doesn’t seem like a productive way to approach…

I will reluctantly admit that sometimes I wait to move over until I know they can see me doing it so I get a wave.

I’m lonely, ok?

I will occasionally watch some motovlog youtube compilations of biker vs. car road rage, and it amazes me how easily avoidable most of the stuff is. There’s a lot of “I had the right of way” dick swinging but often it’s just a case of one of the two parties being pissed off that the other one passed them.

My take is…

It does. I think the worst is the people who are looking for an address or something so they keep spiking the brakes without any regard to who’s behind them. Up there with the people who swing out before turning like they’re in an 18 wheeler or something. 

The people that think that don’t ride motorcycles. They see bikes “squeezing” between cars and think they need a lot more room than they actually have. There’s a lot more space than people think, and it actually surprised me too the first time I tried lane splitting.

This surprised me when I moved here. I have passed cops with their radars out going 90+ and they don’t even flinch, maybe looking for more aggressive speeders? I would have expected the opposite. Actually a little scary when you consider that we don’t have safety inspections either, but I’m not complaining.

I was in a HUGE collision because of someone waving someone else to go when it wasn’t clear. I get that it depends on the situation, but this is really not good advice.

I have a motorcycle and a Miata and can confirm that I’d much rather take the Miata in almost all situations. What a shitty way to die, getting flattened by some fat mope in a crossover who couldn’t wait 10 minutes to text his friend.

I’ve always stood by my “If you move over to let me by, I know you see me” thing. I don’t need the space, but I like knowing people are watching.

Getting into how far over is TOO far over is such a dumb hill to die on when you’re also sharing the road with dozens of people on their phones. You’re reaching. I share…