It needs to be a manual. The whole car. Stick shift, crank windows, manual seat tracks, no auto-dimming lights or rain-sensing wipers. Nothing in my car moves/activates/deactivates until I manually tell it to. The only exceptions are for simple power steering and brakes.

Manual transmission. I cant drive an automatic transmission equipped vehicle. It doesn’t work for me. I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’ve accepted my shortcoming. I need a manual car.

Right now, it’s color. I have an insanely blue car and I love it, even though it’s clearly deficient in many ways. But it’s fun to look at, and for that alone, I love it.

After compromising for a number of years with automatics it’s now back to three pedals. I realize that in a couple of years it might mean that I’ll be forced into buying only used cars. I blame all of you who buy paddle shift cars because “Dude, it is .04 faster from 0-60!”

In my experience, being house poor in some parts of CA can provide a significantly better quality of life than being financially flush elsewhere

This is awesome news. I had a 2014 CRF 250L that I bought in 2017 with 7,000 miles and proceeded to put an additional 2,500 miles on while I finished school (I also had a car, but used the CRF to park on campus and zip around town). I loved that bike, and probably did at least 500 miles off road. It was bulletproof—…

The really cheap ones seem to only have two pedals. The deals are still good to pony up for the third bedal, but it's less of a screaming deal

They’re brilliant cars designed for city driving. Sorry it’s not suited for your flyover state. You’ve clearly never owned or driven one.

Flying jumps, rubbin’s racin’, turnin’ so hard your vehicle is on three wheels.

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The revelation that a wing works better mounted from its topside than on a pedestal is the worst thing to happen to supercar styling since NACA ducts. Just as we have come to accept the aesthetic shortcomings of NACA ducts because of their function, so too will the hanging wing become styling shorthand for performance…

Automotive designers keep tacking on front plates as an afterthought. It’s time to put more thought into it (I’m in a non-front plate state). It’s ALWAYS like “oh yeah, we need a plate”. Look at that Supra pic. The plate is there, sure, but the front design ignores it, and marketing is the one who included it.

I feel kink shamed that they’re not showing me a 2-door with a manual.

And you’re talking about Europe?

There is 300 vans that do under 30miles/day in my 100k residents city+surroundings, and I’m only counting the main courier companies.
With an inner city beat at DPD, I was averaging 56miles at 100 stops, and with ~6min/stop that’s a 12 hour shift with loading and unloading (10hrs+1for loa…

From what part of Europe to what other part of Europe do you usually drive?

According to Mercedes-Benz market research of cargo van drivers, the average daily mileage of a van in Europe is just around 60 miles...“it’s aimed primarily at businesses conducting multi-drop ‘last-mile’ deliveries in urban areas...

the article explains the market pretty well, you’re clearly not it. 

This makes me so fucking angry. There is literally enough money to just give a house to almost every single homeless person in this country, but we won’t do that because then they won’t have “earned” it. Nobody should have to “earn” the right to just fucking live in a basic amount of comfort. I’m not saying they need…

It would be great if everyone commenting on EVs actually drove one. 2 things will happen: The experience of the silent magical shove of the electric motor. The realization as you look out the window at ICE cars and realize you are very much in a different world.

Across the board, fines should absolutely not be going back into the coffers, even to the general fund. Give it to charity or something, eliminate the financial incentive to fine people.