I genuinely don’t see the issue with unlimited radio contact.

Exactly, I was about to touch upon that. I’ve always hated 2D platformers more than any other genre, they bore me to death, but I’ve always been a large fan of racing games. My exception has been Sonic, and that’s simply because it incorporates so many of the racing game mechanisms. Anticipate the course ahead of you…

It seems like you’ve managed to spend the past 25 years or so completely missing the point.

The Prius is a car that can be raced. TRD is a daughter company (or whatever the correct term is) which builds race cars as well as racing-inspired road cars in order to profit on their racing heritage. How is then a TRD Prius an oxymoron?

Unless I missed something, the link that you provided only discusses sales in Canada in the US, which are pretty abysmal. I think that here in Europe, there is still a waiting list for the 4C, or at least they’re selling them as quickly as they’re building them. I’m frequently looking for used examples, but I haven’t…

I’m offended by you eating rye bread, I demand that you stop doing so at once.

Thinking about other people does not equal paying attention to every irrational whim.

Heh, I was visiting Detroit for the SAE world congress once. There were an area where you could stand in line to test drive a number of vehicles, most of them from American manufacturers. I made the mistake of saying that the only one I was interested in driving was the electric Fiat 500.

What you wrote made some sense until the second-to-last paragraph: “someone who has made some mistakes sexually in their past”. Here you’re missing an incredibly important point.

Speaking as someone who enjoys racing simulators (with a proper steering wheel setup and clutch/proper gear lever), VR can be worth any amount of money to me.

I’d say both, but the Cactus specifically regarding the “groovy” design.

Bluagh. Speaking as someone living in a country where the C4 is common, it is one of the most despicably depressing cars on the road. Exclusively driven by people who think that it’s “groovy”, yet care as much about their car as they care about a toaster.

The only valid reason to make someone with the user name “HolyPope” change it was if the real pope called dibs.

By now, lots of people have pointed out flaws in your argument, but there is one angle I feel is missing:

This is like when I attended a conference and met a representative from whatever the company building the Corvettes. Pretty much any European’s stereotype of someone from Texas. Huge guy, thick accent, gigantic ego, might as well have had a cowboy hat.

Don’t forget the pricing of the total package, which I suspect is just below the pain treshold for a vast group of consumers.

This is similar to something which I have proposed for years, although I’m probably the only person in the world who wants it.

Nooo, I loved this! I was convinced that it was on purpose!

There is seriously something called an “indoctrination program”? Unless that was a joke that went above my head: is the US army/military/whatever trying to out-crazy North Korea?

Not necessarily. Sure, $5,000 deprecation over five years is low for a brand new car, but I’m currently driving an NA Miata that if anything has increased in value since I bought it. Hopefully my next car will be a Jaguar XK8, and while the maintenance costs will be higher I’d expect almost zero deprecation on that as…