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Feels like you’re going to drive either the Genesis GV90 or the Jaguar I-Type. If I was a betting man, it would be the GV-90.
It was Fiat.
When they talked about “Risk Of ‘Internal Subversive Actions Perpetrated By Politicized And Radicalized Groups” they were talking about Chicago Style Pizza and how it is an afront to real pizza.
Are we talking Chicago deep dish or tavern style? I love both of them for their own reasons.
Deep dish. It’s the original sin to them.
Shots fired! …Ugh, you’re probably right. It’s a pizza-flavored casserole, right?
Yep. But I can’t complain. Buddy’s Pizza in Detroit is very similar.
I’m a sucker for Lou Malnati’s. I used to practically inhale that stuff when my body cared a little less about what I ate. lol
Public restrooms in Vermont, once you’re away from the box stores and such, tend to be single occupancy. One-holers. These, by law, must be gender neutral even if there’s 2 of them side by side.
I once drove straight to the Walmart in Saratoga because I couldn’t find a public restroom in Vermont when I needed one. I also maybe wasn’t thinking clearly because it was an emergency
I’d say Volvo is the sender of this info. But more importantly, driving in Virginia is not a risk as far as speeding goes, if you are in the top of the state, or driving anywhere down the western half of the state, which I do regularly. Since covid hit, there just doesn’t seem to be much police presence in most places. Of course, you still have to observe what the other traffic is doing and just pace yourself with them.
Vermont terror threats are real. We’re coming into maple syrup season. The Quebec maple cartel needs to keep them pesky Vermonters in check.
Plus they’re bitter at the way Montpelier is pronounced down there.
As someone who has travelled fairly extensively across South East Asia, Europe and the United States, I’m sorry to say the most unsafe I’ve ever felt was during a brief visit to Chicago. During the day everything was fine, but at night our group was harassed by several people including a drug-effected man who threatened to call “his cousins” after a girl in my group tried to move away from him. The second-most unsafe I’ve felt was in downtown LA when I was walking to the cinema and unhoused people were hurling abuse at me.
The overall vibe I got from the unhoused people in the US was unfettered and explosive anger, understandable given their seemingly hopeless situation in a country with no proper safety net. I saw far more unhoused people in the US than in most other “first-world” countries I’ve visited, and I think that contributes to the general feeling of unease I felt in many of the cities. Funnily enough, I didn’t feel particularly unsafe in New Orleans, a city that I loved for its jazzy nightlife and laid-back character.
I think this might be a case of Americans not realising just how bad things have become in some parts of their country. And frankly I think it’s why the political situation is so messed up at the moment, because a huge swathe of these people are being ignored and it just seems to be making everyone angry.
I hope things improve for you soon, as it’s a remarkable country to visit, and the majority of people I met were great.
Also, a note on deserts: 100% can be as dangerous as any natural disaster. If you’re driving through a desert at 45 degrees C, you break down and you have no water, you’re in a lot of trouble.
I’m sorry that happened to you! Sadly, I feel like most Americans have a story like that, too. I think mine would be that beach in Florida, outside of Tampa. At one point, he had me cornered, and my only choice was to fight him or go swimming deep in the ocean off the beach. He just waited there on the beach, doing things I’m unwilling to speak of in this comments section.
My savior was a couple who dropped their beach chairs down next to the creeper. The guy of the couple was a pretty built dude, so I exited the water and told him about the creeper. He chased the creeper off long enough for me to get away.
There was another time when a mob of drunken people from a bar in Wisconsin Dells tried to chase me down. Luckily, a cop saw it happen, and he stopped the mob. Though he didn’t do anything about the mob action, just told them to go back in the bar and leave me alone.
Fuck I’m sorry that happened to you. I never realized “Nobody 2” was a documentary…
BYD? They would certainly have no love for America.
Yeesh. I’m sorry you had to receive/read that in the first place.
So, the one thing we know for sure is that it isn’t Skoda as otherwise Matt would be writing this piece, and can probably assume they’re not a North American company. My guess is also Ki-Yund-Esis, but it would be funny if it was Stellantis.
SPAM Motors.
My guess? General Motors.
Interesting I lived in Vermont it has to be the most liberal state I ever lived in including California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, this is not a verified event. But yeah let’s everyone pretend it is real.
I had been following a pair of sisters who defected from North Korea to South Korea and visited the US, one of them for the first time. They seemed to feel they needed to run back to their hotel before the sunset even while being surprised at how nice Americans were in opposition to their NK education. So, my guess is Hyukia.
On VT, NE has been getting a lot of snow this year and VT has an official policy of shitty road cleanup and they’re very low on salt. There are also a lot of elevation changes. Taller sidewall Blizzaks and an LSD in my GR86 usually do pretty well, but have been defeated by a 15-20% grade on a winding tertiary road that’s poorly plowed so that the previous snow becomes compacted into ice under a layer of new snow (where is all this low end torque when I actually want it?!). I ended up abandoning the hill and got a ride from a guy I work with who has a Crosstrek* and that spun all four Altimax snow tires a bit making it up the hill to the job site, no worry about making it, but some of the roads are not good. I’m sure the automaker has a route planned, but FYI in case you stray off the paths.
*VT is like the old NES Rad Racer where each stage had only a single model of car to race against and that car is the Crosstrek. At one point, I was surrounded by 5 of them on the freeway and no other cars.
Genesis, because this letter reads like it was written by an AI bot that got swept up in the Hyundai immigration raids in Georgia last year.
That report reads exactly the same way as suburban/rural Americans think about big cities.
TLDR version: This is ‘Murica. DEI is dead, and we’ve pissed off a lot of people, so be careful out there.
I’m not sure which is more terrifying – the info they sent you, or that they felt the need to send it to you.
Either way, be safe Mercedes.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a fake message and the sender stole the account. I would suggest Mercedes confirms the message. Why would they email instead of call her and report it to the proper authority. Stay safe but don’t allow scammers to thwart the truth. Where’s the Autopian in all this just ignores her safety?
I can tell you that it was a very real message, sent by the automaker. The report itself was generated for the automaker by an organization that produces reports like this for corporations and governments.
The Autopian definitely cares about my safety! In this case, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about in Vermont, except snow, I guess. That’s part of what made the message so bizarre.
It has to be Subaru,right? Isn’t Subaru the official motor vehicle manufacturer of Vermont?
Now that the last of the AMC Eagles have rotted back into the earth, I’m pretty sure every vehicle registered for the road in Vermont is indeed a Subaru. Possibly some Priuses here and there?
I’m going to guess it’s Hyundai and the car is an Ioniq 6N. If anyone was going to be very attuned to American mass deportations and insurrections, it’s a Korean OEM.
A bunch of South Korean engineers were caught up in a massive American deportation raid last year, and South Korea just locked up a former president for nearly life (after narrowly avoiding the death penalty) after he imposed martial law for mere hours to meddle in an election.
I’m guessing VW. Mainly because of the Euro-dollar exchange rate mention.
I’m guessing an Asian automaker, as much of it reads like US State Department travel advisory guides for going to some European countries.
I’m going to assume that it wasn’t Tesla, and not just because they never introduce new models
They also have no people to send messages from.