this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
30 points (100.0% liked)
Casual Conversation
892 readers
117 users here now
Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.
RULES
- Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling.
- Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible.
- Avoid controversial topics (e.g. politics or societal debates).
- Stay calm: Don’t post angry or to vent or complain. We are a place where everyone can forget about their everyday or not so everyday worries for a moment. Venting, complaining, or posting from a place of anger or resentment doesn't fit the atmosphere we try to foster at all. Feel free to post those on !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
- Keep it clean and SFW
- No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc.
Casual conversation communities:
- !casualuk@feddit.uk
- !casualeurope@piefed.social
- !forumlibre@jlai.lu
- !batepapo@lemmy.eco.br
- !esp@lemm.ee
Related discussion-focused communities
- !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca
- !askmenover30@lemm.ee
- !dads@feddit.uk
- !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
- !movies@piefed.social
- !television@piefed.social
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Much as I do agree with everyone talking about public transport here on an actual sensible and rational level, I do still like cars and driving no matter how much I agree that the world would be a better place were they rendered irrelevant.
So in the spirit of the question: the Morgan Supersport. It looks magnificent, Morgans are supposed to be great to drive, it's quite small and still fairly luxurious, it's pretty fast but not so fast that it becomes functionally unusable on actual roads, and the company still describes itself as a coachbuilder so you can tweak every little detail to your pleasing
I'm in a similar boat. I love my car, I like driving my car, I like working on my car (Subaru BRZ), but if I had the opportunity to take the bus or the train to work, you bet I would. (I COULD, but because the routes are so ass-backwards, it would take me over an hour and a half to ride the bus 12 miles with 2 transfers)
In the spirit of "Cars that SHOULD exist", I'd love me an Autozam AZ1. I grew up playing Sega GT on the Dreamcast, and I LOVED racing that little thing... Or, for a slightly more practical but still tiny and awesome, a Nissan Be-1. I've actually been close to importing a Be-1 a couple times, but the ass-backwards laws that make it difficult to register and drive kei vehicles in the USA are stupid.
Tiny cars are awesome. Big-ass trucks and SUV's in the USA are getting out of hand (I'm sure we can all agree). Just this weekend, I literally exclaimed "What the fuck" out loud when a truck pulled up next to me and the tops of its wheel wells were right at the top of my driver's side window. It was a relatively stock looking new Toyota of some kind and it truly dwarfed my car. I'm used to feeling small, and It might have been because they were passing me on a very narrow bridge, but it was the biggest truck (that wasn't obviously made bigger) I have seen in a long time.
I'm in the UK where people do have an unfortunate obsession with SUVs but we mostly don't have the really enormous American ones. Since our roads tend to be significantly narrower than American ones - especially in rural areas and older towns - when you do see one of those big trucks like a Hummer or something they just look like they got lost and are now stuck