No, it has nothing to do with looking around your car. Do you really think that only a wing mirror sticking out of the side can give you a view behind and to the side of a car?

The regulators are so backward that they insist on mirrors, even though they haven’t actually been necessary for the last 50+ years. It’s the fact the regulations are thoroughly ossified (like our weird reflector rules), not due to reliability or any other garbage people claim.

So much this, but their replacements were possibly worse... I remember those dark days with rows upon rows of PT Cruisers at every rental company.

I’m not usually this harsh, really. Look up POSC on facebook and check out the history, they show you the uncensored truth about Dart and Cruze owners.

I screwed up. It was “UNABOM”, as they dropped the B for inexplicable reasons. I remember them describing the person doing it as the “Unabomber”, not “Unabomer”. Checking en.wp, which is more pedantic than me, it looks like they did describe the unknown perpetrator as “the Unabomber” consistently.

I feel bad for Sonic owners in general, while I hold contempt for most Cruze/Dart owners. Most Sonic owners are good people that made one bad decision, while every Dart owner I’ve ever encountered consistently makes poor life choices that resulted in owning a Dart. Cruzes are a slightly more mixed bag, but if it is…

Answer: Because all they need is something cheap that fits in a size class.

I’ve seen cases where dyslexics use the correct homophone because they are dyslexic. There are other cases where they accidentally make great jokes.

All you need to do is take this email, replace the name of the car and any pertinent points, then send it to Torch.

I’m pretty sure the one that wrote this missive is not hip enough to have transitioned to such stylish clothing. Replace the khaki shorts with jorts and you might have them pegged.

It was actually “Unabomber”, after the FBI’s “Unabomb” task force, which was a really haphazard portmanteau of “University and Airline Bomber”.

Or, as mentioned elsewhere, a baby boomer. It’s either this or a brilliant parody of one.

If they removed the badges, this car might be the most anonymous car possible. People at least recognize Camrys when they see them.

Have you ever seen Cruze and Dart owners? Now that’s a group of fanbois that would be easy/fun to troll.

As mentioned above, this is a prime example of baby boomer writing.

What was funny was that at the time (at least with US-spec versions, because I wasn’t looking at anything grey market like the earlier Smarts you have) you could get certain variants of the Mini Cooper that attained higher fuel economy than the Fortwo with a bigger cabin, many times the cargo capacity, and four…

Most people in the US get paid relatively less and have to drive much further (interestingly, Canadians complain, but they make quite a bit more than their neighbors to the south as well). They also choose to drive ridiculously massive and inefficient vehicles, which amplifies the effect.

I’m pretty sure you can’t top a Model S in fuel efficiency:performance with any level of modern crash safety, with a big cluster of cheaper EVs behind it, followed distantly by some diesel cars and small-displacement turbo gasoline cars, then a big gap to everything else.

My money would be on the Tesla Model S being the current king of the hill here...

True with all turbos. My car has an “EcoBoost”, which means you can drive it either economically (staying out of boost) or with boost. It’s kind of two experiences in one.