But style is different than slapping on ridiculous fake vents and 2 fast 2 furious spoilers. No, that is just what is called ostentatious. There are plenty of really good looking cars that are not boring, and this is not one of them.

I get that, and that is what I do. It is still an absurd markup.

Actually, I hadn’t. I suppose the idea makes sense, but it still leaves users paying way more for a ride than they should.

Yeah, chipped paint on the underside of a plastic fender doesn’t really matter. It won’t spread or rust. I think the real reason is mostly, as you said, for the “rugged” look. People are easily duped into thinking their lifted hatch back is more rugged and off-road capable with some extra body cladding.

You must not have lived next to a garbage hoarder.

You read what you wanted to read from my comment, not what I meant. TinyCar understands my point.

So you think that these million-dollar home buyers, people who obviously have some specific aesthetic taste, would be thrilled to buy a house next to one with a tank parked out front? You don’t think that would turn away ANY prospective buyers?

The whole surge pricing thing is bullshit, anyway. Whether there are 10 people who need a ride and 10 drivers or 1000 people who need a ride and 10 drivers, there are still 10 people who are going to get a ride. Surge pricing simply caters to people with more money. Sure, I understand that this is how the free market…

The problem isn’t with plastic wheel arches, the problem is with UNPAINTED wheel arches. Black plastic looks cheap to start, and only looks cheaper as the sun fades it.

Property values mean more than you think. If property values go down, lower income families are able to move in. Lower income families are often less able to maintain their houses and properties properly, and things begin to get run down. Next thing you know, you are living in a not-so-nice area with elevated crime.…

Are you serious? These comments are so ignorant, it is mind-boggling. Are you a home owner yet? I’m guessing not. Most people who move into a neighborhood do so partly because the neighborhood is generally “nice”, well-maintained, and presentable. A house with some weird eyesore, a collection of trash, or overgrown…

Well, here is a perfect example of a place where someone is doing something completely idiotic in their neighborhood. People keep making the “I don’t have an HOA, and nobody does anything wrong here” argument, and it is bullshit. OKAY, COOL, your neighbors are perfect. Well, out here in the rest of the United States,…

I think there is more danger in what collateral damage was possible than with the loss of the engine itself

Hey man, I never said shitty HOAs and shitty people in HOAs didn’t exits. My point is that they are, at least theoretically, there to keep the neighborhood look nice. And, like police officers, you never hear about the good ones, only the bad.

Most big tough men don’t buy big tough trucks because they need them, they buy them to PRETEND that they need them.

There is huge, blatantly obvious “nod” in the design with respect to the old one: There is a hideous front end affixed to an otherwise beautiful body.

A lot of people here are hating on the new one’s styling and suggesting it takes no design cues from the old. They are wrong. They are both exceptionally pretty cars when viewed anywhere but from the front. Neither grille is anything short of poorly proportioned and misplaced.

Well in these internet commenters’ defense, part of designing a car is making it so the public will like it, and these internet commenters are the public...sooooooooooooo

You seem to think that every HOA is full of pricks. Some of them just don’t want a pile of trash sitting in an overgrown lawn and a house with peeling paint. I don’t think that is unreasonable. Also, I do not have a HOA, anyway.