Finally, someone using their mall-crawler for a mall-crawling-adjacent activity.

Autonomous Sex Closet is the name of my R.E.O. Speedwagon tribute band.

Good. I bought the manual and will join the mob yelling at clouds.

Oh man, don’t even get me started on the insurance side of the gig economy. So many people get easily baited into driving assuming they’ll be covered under their personal auto insurance if they get in accident while driving for Lyft or Uber.

Wait, if we bought the manual, wagon, or the manual wagon new from a dealer, do we get a free pass to spew vitriol at the disappearance of these things?

If you want to participate in the gig economy with your Tesla, go nuts. After 5+ years of taxi duty that car will be worthless, and the morsels of revenue share Tesla pays you might offset the car’s accelerated depreciation, maintenance, and repair costs.

I’ve seen a single Jeep 4.0 L6 go through 4 chassis in 25 years before it...well it didn’t die, it just got hydrolocked by the final owner’s incompetence then scrapped.

And yet when I need four tires it takes two days for the shop to get them and a 45 minute appointment to mount and balance. Disgusting.

So Porsche will build, at most, two identical 911s per year, while Tesla will offer, at most, two identical cars from week to week. Got it.

“Easy to get in and out of” is a gigantic selling point for...

26k delivered for the entry level AWD model...unless you’re referring to a non-US market?

By the time this is all put into a Mazda3 (don’t forget one or more LSDs, too), the price of the car shoots up into the $35k range, where it’s now getting cross-shopped against the STi, Golf R, and Civic Type R, while being slower than all three and trying to get by with a torsion-beam rear in a field saturated by…

How about a new affordable and tunable sports car, like the 240?

I don’t even like Jeeps, but everything I’ve read and seen about the Jeep community makes me want one. You all might be on the edge of clinically insane, but you’re the benchmark for automotive culture.

Thanks for the heads-up. I think I have that exact card in a rarely-used GoPro so I’ll pop that in if it matches, and order this if not.

How timely - there’s a lightning deal on Amazon right now for an entry-level model for just 24 bucks. Grabbing it now.

I mean, a $6,000 payout* on a 20 year old anything is still substantial. I had a 10 year old fully loaded Accord V6 in good condition that was worth less than that to my insurance company.

As a large guy who had a same-generation Honda Accord platform mate and had plenty of room to spare, I think we have a winner.

Makes the most sense - the CH-R is going to be due for a new generation around 2021 and the current CX-3 will hit 5-6 years old when the first new cars roll out of the Alabama plant. Both will be due for an upgrade around then, and merging them both onto one platform would be wise.

“Everything is smoother at 8/10ths!”