At least it’s not the gubment, right?

NP. Summer fun with the top down, no problem finding parts, can be wrenched. This would be a great summer daily, or a great first car for your kid right up until they jump the curb and drive into the wall of some strip mall.

With the steep depreciation EVs experience, If you were looking to buy one of these are you better off taking the lease then buying the car at the end?If you take that $69/month deal, you’ve paid about $7500 after two years @ $309/month. Surely a $41,541 car will have depreciated more than than in two years? If you…

I’m sorry, that wasn’t my intention. Given the time of year, I figured this feed would be full of reminiscences about piling into family wagons for vacations and working together on project cars and first times driving a stick in dad’s pickup, etc. But there are all kinds of dads (and all kinds of relationships with…

The “I’m a dad who just made his last court-ordered child support payment” car.

Surely they can’t be Sirius.

Perfect split.

How can anyone justify this treatment? How can people continue to make excuses for such an objectively flawed and compromised vehicle?

I interpreted “every American can agree on” to mean something like “what would Americans settle on if we can only have one car” (what we’d say, ‘yeah, I guess’ to.) Something akin to America’s Volkswagen Beetle.

Hear me out:
You want a car that gets relatively good mileage, is relatively reliable, has enough cargo room for a family of 5 or 10+ bags of soil (sorry, Cybertruck), is quirky for the kids, easy for the olds to get in and out of, and is relatively inexpensive to buy and maintain.

I don’t have photoshop or the time to fire up Paint; please use your imagination.

I want gullwing doors that turn into wings and the ability to take off and land a car in less than a block’s worth of road using jet power from the exhaust. Oh, and they should shoot lasers. Second choice would be the motorcycle/helicopter.

Wait a minute, driver education is counter to “American values of individual freedom”?

Agreed; maybe just a 2-tier system, 5 over for 45 MPH or less, 10 over for 46 MPH or more. But they shouldn’t leave “10 over in a 20 MPH school zone is good enough” like they have now.

We can’t add more comprehensive driver education or enforcement via hard limiters or ticketing, that’s completely counter to American values of individual freedom at the expense of societal safety, so we have to resort to nagging. My GPS already turns the little MPH indicator sign on the screen red when I’m speeding,…

Well, there goes that bonus.

The perfect thing for plucking orphans off of raised railroad bridges.

Haha got dismissed, I guess. Reposting for the benefit of those “this is dumb and lazy” replies:

Username checks out.

The European mind can’t comprehend this. What’s the use of bicycling if you’re not blocking traffic in heel clips, full spandex, and wraparound shades like you’re training for an Ironman Triathlon? Look at these lazy assholes. I bet their heart rate never leaves zone 2, how are they supposed to max their gains like…