Leasing is the perfect solution for foreign expatriates and students who are only in the country for a few years and can’t/won’t ship the car back home when they leave, since it’s essentially a glorified long-term rental.

Uh what... they’re refugees who have a legal temporary status in the US, and who fear that Trump may revoke that status. Not that it justifies illegal crossings, mind you.

No, you don’t want him impeached. Trust me. Mike Pence is actually sane, calculating, and politically experienced enough to advance an ultraconservative right-wing agenda without stirring too much controversy until it’s too late.

In China, rich people, even the “upper middle class” ones, vastly prefer to be chauffeured, and chauffeurs are cheap so you don’t need to be ultra rich to afford one.

A car is not an iPhone. Moving one, even legally, can be a logistical nightmare especially in a place like Hong Kong.

A lot of used RHD cars (often exported from Singapore, HK, and Japan) end up in southern Africa where traffic drives on the left and import taxes are low or governments are easy to bribe.

For the China one, I’m guessing a wealthy official had to flee the country on short notice due to a corruption investigation, and didn’t have time to sell his assets, which the police then seized and later forgot about.

Yet another case of “two wrongs don’t make a right”... this goes right up there with tailgating a left-lane hog. Bad parking is a terrible thing to do, but it is not against the law. The only ones with the authority to move a parked car, besides the car’s owner, are the cops and the owners of the property that the car…

Manhattan’s still in the US, which means the purchase price of an average car compared to an average income is within reach for most people. Car insurance may be on the high side by US standards, but definitely won’t reach 5 figures a year. If you don’t want to pay for NYC parking but want to go on a drive, you can…

How could you forget the Volkswagen Santana, aka the most common taxi and cop car in mainland Chinese cities? It’s a 1980s Passat that really caught on in China (I think it might’ve been VW’s very first Chinese-made car), and unlike the average modern German car, it was ridiculously reliable.

I actually own one myself, bought used and well out of warranty, but fully loaded. Well worth it - its reliability is rock solid!

Yes, blacks are over-represented as perpetrators of violent crime, but they are also over-represented as victims of completely uncalled for police shootings/beatings. Just because they happen to be over-represented as perps doesn’t mean cops shouldn’t exercise due diligence before drawing their weapons.

I don’t think anyone disagrees with you, it’s just that when someone says it out loud, it’s easily interpreted as “victim blaming” or “violence is justified against dicks”.

As much as I hate left lane hogs, there is absolutely no justification in ramming them off the road like that, which puts human lives in danger - especially the lives of uninvolved drivers who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is like spraying machine gun fire at a shoplifter who has run into a crowd.

Those badges aren’t added by the buyers, they come like that by default from the dealer. Pretty weird if you ask me.

The system in Singapore is set up such that only the very wealthy can comfortably afford cars. For the rest of the population, even those making the equivalent of $100k USD, just owning a subcompact would really stretch the budget and probably result in debt.

This is the UK. They drive on the left side of the road, so the rightmost lane is the passing lane and the leftmost lane is the slow lane.

2013+ Ford Fusion (Mondeo outside of the Americas) = best of both worlds, the worlds being “stylish luxury” and “affordable + reliable”.

For reliability:

Mercedes-Benz made the R-Class which technically is an SUV but is low-riding enough to be compared to a minivan. In terms of interior room, it was just as good as a long-wheelbase S-Class, while costing a LOT less. It’s even quite popular in China as a chauffeur-driven car.