“Diesel Kiki:” quaint, Miyazaki-esque, with a touch of nostalgia for a world that has passed

“take it how you want, but that sure reads that she would like to stop air travel”

Now I’m curious! I haven’t driven a Leaf, but our household has a Volt (1st-gen) and a C-Max (hybrid, non-Energi). I’ve noticed “L” mode in both seems to simulate engine braking, like you mentioned, but the Volt’s is more aggressive than the C-Max has. (Not sure if the Energi’s “L” mode is tuned differently or not.)

Real men drive the FWD model from 1769!

I can’t remember if it was here or the hellhole TTAC, but I remember reading a story about a guy with a Fiat 500 with a bumper sticker that read, “Compensating for My Enormous Penis.”

Presumably a Chrysler with cetacean-equivalent dimensions, primed to embark across the seas.

The artist behind Precious Moments has really branched out. 

“sprayer of the Sturgis strain COVID” describes the rider. 

I read that in the cadence to “Gaston.”

Before 2016 I thought I knew what a barrel, and therefore the bottom of a barrel, looked like.

Turns out they’re more akin to that superdeep borehole the USSR drilled back in the ‘60s.

Jankenfreude? Shodden-freude?

And here I was thinking libertarians hated public works projects. 

Mind you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.

moved on to a lifted diesel Beetle

I think Mercedes is the center of the Venn diagram between Torch and Tracy.

If you’re enthusiastic about the car, you’re a car enthusiast, and by definition it’s an enthusiast’s car. :) 

First-gen Volt owner here and there’s no getting around the 4-seater layout.

Don’t you dare talk about my Chicken Boo!

“FAR more mature than the last generation, thank Cthulhu.”

There’s a snake in my boot!