What do the most Germans drive? That can't help but be very German.
Damn. Don't show that Yukon to the neighborhood merchants around here. They'd definitely use the proceeds of their commercial activities to fund the purchase of one or more.
You accidentally some verbs.
What's the problem here?
For a Contour SVT in this condition I'd totally pay $8K, mostly for the exhaust sound. It was the best-sounding V6 car of the nineties.
But $15K will get me some cars that are just way better.
The hardest challenge for celebrities is not dodging bullets, but staying inconspicuous.
The Avalon has the highest back-seat-comfort-to-conspicuousness ratio of any car ever made.
Almost anything Buick has made in the last 20 years is among the most durable cars on the road. They were the first American brand to really focus on quality in the late '80s and '90s, and it shows in the numbers.
Front wheel drive also gives you much more interior space for a given vehicle footprint and more predictable behavior in slick conditions. Those are worth more to 90% of car buyers than the factors you mentioned.
1) The more batteries out there, the less strip-mining will be necessary. The exotic materials can be recycled in full. Toyota already recycles every scrapped Prius battery.
2) Diesels get better mileage on the highway, but proper hybrids get MUCH better mileage in the city... where most hybrid buyers live. I live in the middle of DC. On my typical trips, a Jetta TDI would get about 30 mpg. Not bad... until you consider that a Prius would get 50 mpg in the same duty cycle. If I drove on the freeway a lot, those numbers would be very different.
Approved for truth. I came here to write something like this, although I was going to focus more on the increasing refinement of American cars in the 2000s and 2010s.
Except that you'll never, ever find a real-life example of any of the above for under $40,000, and if you do, it'll have leatherette upholstery and be missing most of the goodies in this Kia.
The big question: does it have much better NVH than the Civic?
If so, it should be a perfectly good mini-luxury ride, especially in 2.4 form. (If you're asking what the point of a mini-luxury ride is, then you probably don't live in a big city.) The Civic Si is a great small car that's let down by a super-cheap interior and lousy NVH. The pictures show they fixed the cheap interior.
If NVH still sucks, there's little reason to spend the extra money.
Ugh. 350Z and 370Z door handles make my head hurt. I can't even get past them. Although I know if I did I'd complain about the unrefined interior and the nails-on-chalkboard VQ engine note.
(Seriously... is it that hard to make a twincam V6 sound acceptable? Honda Js sound terrific. GM HFs sound great. Even Ford Duratecs are at least inoffensive.)
His crusades, if they could get any traction, would be extremely harmful to end-users. Real innovation in the industry has almost always been driven by a profit motive. Open source (of the sort he hates) is very compatible with the profit motive, but free software is not. The best free-software successes have not come in innovation, but in providing alternatives to overly greedy or restrictive corporate vendors.
Developing the GNU toolset was a great accomplishment. But since then he has only set back advances in computing, in my opinion.
For your efforts, you win this Miami-configured five point oh with the ragtop down so your hair can blow. Oh, and a #cotdnominations .
110 or 120 is entirely different from 225.
No motorist can be expected to react in time to someone approaching from behind at a closing speed of 150 mph.
This is jackassery of the first order and these guys deserve to go to jail.
The difference is that a modified car is far, far more likely than a modified computer (especially a computer with modified software) to cause the death of innocent people. If modified cars crash or burn, they don't necessarily just affect the driver.
If a zealot protests something because of a proprietary intermediate step, it will be Stallman.
Hell, he won't even use stuff that is open-source, but has a license that allows reuse of the source to create closed-source products.
Completely crazy. First he says: "Record my speeches. I want them as widely distributed as possible." Then he says: "I won't cooperate with you unless you use free software formats" ...that almost no one can actually listen to or watch. He's a total slave to his ideology.
Someone already took my answer (Subaru XT Turbo) so I'll just leave this here.
