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Well, the sedans are boring, but not all small cars are boring. I daily a Miata when I don’t need to get on the interstate. It doesn’t suck. Read more

THIS! Well said! Read more

Umm... Toyota Yaris is available right now, my dude. Read more

Miatas don’t get bad fuel economy. Even if you drive them like a nut they rarely go below 24-25 mpg. On the highway, they are very efficient. Low 30's. Read more

Toyota Yaris. I believe it even comes with a manual transmission:

I think they got the name wrong.

Detroit Diesel and Buick painted their engines green. But it was more of a kind of turquoise. Lime green is saying “I NEED ALL THE ATTENTION!” and looks like a child’s toy. Read more

Well, they moved it after your reply. So maybe not everyone is pissed. Read more

T-buckets are a special thing, and generally have purchase only within a select age demographic. They suck as actual cars. And this one isn’t done with the driver in mind at all. So even though I’m in that demographic, I’m not inspired. Read more

You also ‘hang up’ even though the origin of that phrase was way back when you had to turn a magneto to ring the party line bell at the live operator’s location. Read more

When the dealerships build a sales system designed to purposefully obfuscate what is actually a simple capital goods purchase, then that same tool can be flipped around and used on them. It’s not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Read more

“..Yet you don’t see the LA mayor walking around waving his dick...” Read more

OMG... I fell asleep before I could hit the button to advance the slides. Read more

Philosophically, I prefer the trash meat brands. Because it might just have goat in it. I love goat meat. I was raised by a grandfather whose family produced farm-made head cheese every year. Although I would eat it, it was a bit crunchy for me. The liver sausage and venison stuff was more my speed. When your baseline… Read more

I’m going to start giving these slideshows a D9 rating. Read more

Those who turn up their noses to the more plebian of life’s simple pleasures deserve no consideration when Putin’s upcoming WWIII nuclear Russian Roulette turns us all into scavengers and thieves. Read more

It’s more complicated than it appears. Because even if NHTSA allows this change, there are thousands of state and municiple laws related to the assumption of responsibility for vehicular operation or damages by the occupant of said vehicle, who is assumed to be its ‘driver’. Read more

It’s the dilemma of the contemporary American conservative activist. Read more

Depends on where we go with engineered fuels. I suspect we are going to have internal combustion engines many decades into the fully electric era, because wealthy buyers will create a market for them. It’s just they’ll run on hydrogen or something. Read more