The car that’s this close -><- to being my recommendation is the Kia Soul. It was fun, easy to care for, had tons of usable interior volume, and I never had any trouble with the drivetrain.

Gizmodo was sold and is not in the Herbeverse.  If you’re looking for community,  look elsewhere.  

1982 Chevy Camaro Z28 Indy pace car edition. Specifically this one:

Wait until this woman give his beloved car a door ding or something.

It is a joke to him. Whatever fine or minimal punishment he’ll receive will be a drop in the bucket/minor inconvenience. He can afford any fine, has a few hours between shows to kill for community service (which will be scheduled at his convenience), and I 100% expect them to accommodate his concert because “his fans…

How I ended up with a 2023 rental spec Chrysler Voyager conversion: It was what I could afford. It’s not easy coming up with $70,000 for a $30,000 van.

But it’d be a hell of a funny remake.

Volkswagen New Beetle. Remember when these were everywhere? They only stopped production 5 years ago after making some 350,000 of them, now I only see 1-2 a month. The catch is that it’s the same 1-2 I see over and over again (probably owned by true loyalists.) In 10 years the few that are left now will have succumbed…

You purchase the car without the pack. You get whatever the dealer has charged when you drive off the lot and batteries are standardized across all manufacturers. Often, electronics you buy come “batteries not included” and you can go anywhere and buy a D, C, AA, etc. cell and it works just fine.

I’m really enjoying all the new ways people are finding to break their Cybertrucks by subjecting them to what most people would call, “normal usage.”

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.