At first I was excited that this wasn’t a slide show. Then the awful reality of seeing all of these turds on the same page hit me.

Shhhh...don’t call attention to it. They’ll pull the whole thing down and reformat it.

Counterpoint: The PT Cruiser needed, and deserved, to die. They just replaced it w/something so bad, arguably worse in every measurable category, that people actually looked back on the PT Cruiser with fondness when presented w/the alternative.

So where is the car at now? Chilling in someone's service bay? Resold? Just curious as much as this guy is a retard.

I had wondered since I first saw your byline if it was a chosen name, and...wow. It goes so much deeper than just a pen name.  All  I can say is to join the chorus of people thanking you for sharing.

I’m glad you’re here with us, Mercedes.

I couldn’t imagine having to lead a very literal double life like that, I feel like coming out to one’s parents can be the hardest and (unfortunately) worst experience for some folks. Things were not good with my folks for a while, but they realized they’d lose me if they didn’t start accepting who I was. Now even my…

Wow, that was a sad (at times), frustrating (at times), yet ultimately uplifting story. I’m a middle-aged cishet dude and I was getting some seriously prickly eyes reading it. If someone doesn’t make a car commercial out of that story, they’re fucking idiots.

What a wonderful, well written and uplifting story.

This hits home on so many levels. Firstly, fellow LGBT gearhead, so you know, hooray and stuff...

This was a wonderful story... Thanks for sharing it.

You’ll be hearing from my attorneys

As someone who was bullied in middle school for being different (I’m a cishet female, but had short curly hair and looked very boyish so I was called all sorts of homophobic slurs, plus had bad skin, glasses, and funny accent and was poor), and had parents who’d get angry at me for acting out instead of trying to find…

I could have written a lot of this myself. I am not trans, but as a fat, acne-covered, gay teen, my 1990 Hyundai Excel was my escape pod as well. I also had an obsession with smart cars and bought a new one in 2011.

It kills me inside to read/hear stories like this. I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area, by very open minded parents. Some of my friends were gay, trans, or just plain confused and hadn’t figured it out yet. Just as many of my friends had brothers, sisters, or even parents that were the same. None of us in our…

The 24 Hours of Lemons, because to win it doesn’t require a great car or razor-sharp reflexes, just strict adherence to the financial rules, adequate preparation, and lots of luck.

I wonder if Tesla will ever redesign a model, like the S. 

I agree with one point you made.

My 2018 Mazda3 manual is listed at 3013 lbs. So even my compact (it’s smaller than my wife’s Cruze) compact car is heavier than that.

9000 fucking pounds? Jesus Christ we can’t even do EVs right. Every day I’m more and more convinced that we flew too close to the sun a long time ago but convinced ourselves that the horrible burns were a nice tan. Fuck it all, no engines over 200 hp without paying for a more comprehensive license and any vehicle over…