Seriously, the name is the only reason the place is in business as far as I can tell. Their food is ghastly and I don’t know why people are so obsessed with it.

If Portland is full, Seattle is well beyond full.

The most normal car in our stable is my wife’s Mazda 3 Hatch in can’t-see-um dark grey metallic (seriously, it makes the car invisible, even with headlights on). I don’t even have a picture of it, but it looks just like this one (except hers has a sunroof) from en.wp...

I disagree. The natural response to loss of traction is to release the gas. This is the opposite of what you want to do in a FWD that is doing what you don’t want to have happen. This backward training is why people drift Mustangs into crowds.

The problem is that you’re basing this all on three assumptions that cannot actually be relied upon:

One point I was going to make directly to the OP was that laying into the throttle to pull out of a slide is exactly the opposite of what a rational person will do, which is why that’s the most common serious wreck in cars like mine (sliding sideways into a tree) aside from running summer tires in cold/snowy/icy…

The ease of driving FWD cars, the fact most understeer, and the fact that most younger drivers have never experienced anything else is the reason we have so many videos of Mustangs, Vipers, BMWs, and random other RWD cars oversteering before careening into crowds at C&C events.

Worse, the suspension on basically every FWD car is set up so they all suffer from terminal understeer that makes them scary to drive. My FoST is the only FWD car I’ve ever driven that was almost perfectly balanced and would readily oversteer. I know that this is a combination of suspension and electronic brake…

We don’t get much FP time, but we’re a crazy group of serious enthusiasts. It’s too bad Jalopnik cut their visible ties with us for some reason (we used to be a link up there). We’re where a fair bit of stuff you see on the FP comes from and some of the writers here are regulars there.

This is so painfully French and amazingly wrong that I kind of want it. It would cost far more to import than to purchase, but anything that runs under $3k is a reasonable deal.

You know, I saw a list recently of things people came in to a doctor to get removed. Among them were sponges not intended for vaginas that were shoved up in them for some reason.

There were plenty of gems deeper in the comments... That post had so much gold.

In theory Android is similar. They should at least have decent aftermarket app support. It should also be somewhat easier to usurp the hardware for your choice of software.

But this is a Camry driver. Do we really believe they will know how to use an app for navigation rather than getting it built into the car (resulting in the purchasing people at the dealers ordering 95% of them with the V6)? I bet every one that I’ve seen out there on the roads thus far has been a V6 due to this.

You may all commence with your orgasms.

Modern Camrys are positively terrifying.

Well, this is a small subset of the population. The average Jalop has probably never purchased a new car and just pick up cars that happened to be bought in a desirable form by someone that likely didn’t know what they were buying. Think Miata.

Neutral: I got a Nest thermostat that I need to install, a really sweet Vorso top, a table lamp, and an NSFW edition of Exploding Kittens. A few random small things and candy were also involved.

There are about 10-15 models that are begrudgingly acceptable to buy new. I own the only one in recent memory to have widespread support from the community and I bought it new as one of the first handful with the current body style off the line (ordered it about 6 months before it was delivered and it looks the same…

The problem is the price. Also a dubious and totally useless modification that should reduce the value, not increase it (replacing tires is 50% more expensive), with zero gained utility and that much extra wear on the drivetrain. This isn’t a tow vehicle that would ever need dual rear wheels and therefore the original…