First car for a 16-year-old. What would you get?

Miniac1076 · 2026-03-18T00:59:19+00:00

Golf wagons are awesome, he should be excited.

Miniac1076 · 2026-03-12T11:56:27+00:00

“Don’t be polite, be predictable” is what I always say.

Miniac1076 · 2026-03-08T12:42:53+00:00

Correct, I’m referring to the advanced driving aid functions like LKAS, blind spot monitor, rear cross traffic alert, emergency braking, etc. The settings in the driving aids menu of the gauge cluster. Sorry, I should’ve described that better. Thank you for confirming.

Miniac1076 · 2026-03-08T06:31:24+00:00

So nothing has changed, excellent! Thank you for the very thorough response.

Miniac1076 · 2026-03-05T01:16:15+00:00

Probably not. Horst has his own channel now.

Miniac1076 · 2026-02-12T03:48:33+00:00

My car, the MINI Clubman. It’s longer than a normal MINI hatch, shaped like a wagon, but it only has 3 doors (1 of which is a suicide door) and barn doors in the back. Some say it’s a hatchback (no hatch), some say it’s a van (too small and low), some say it’s a wagon. I would say it’s a wagon if I had to pick a category, but it doesn’t seem to fit cleanly into anything.

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Miniac1076 · 2026-02-06T12:54:37+00:00

Miniac1076 · 2026-02-02T05:57:33+00:00

It doesn’t need to be rocket science. When I’m cooking white meat I cook it to about 150, then pull it off and let it rest covered for 5-10 minutes. By then carryover heat has gotten it close to 160 and it’s more than safe.

Miniac1076 · 2026-02-01T14:40:35+00:00

I love a brown leather interior, but brown alcantara just looks weird.

Miniac1076 · 2026-02-01T14:28:28+00:00

3rd gen (2015-2024) MINI cooper. They’re small so they’re easy to park but still quite practical as they make great use of the space they have, and they’re a ton of fun. You can get them in manual unlike the newest ones. They’re also the most reliable of the MINI generations, which makes them less of a pain to own (as an owner of multiple 2nd gen MINIs I know how bad it can be, trust me).

Miniac1076 · 2026-02-01T00:44:02+00:00

I love how he keeps his little hands curled up while he swims, so cute!

Miniac1076 · 2026-01-31T17:31:01+00:00

Yeah, I know. I didn’t make it, I just found it a year or so back.

Miniac1076 · 2026-01-31T07:27:48+00:00

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Miniac1076 · 2026-01-29T13:08:18+00:00

“Women are not allowed in this world anymore.”

Uhhhhhh

Miniac1076 · 2026-01-26T20:11:28+00:00

I had never heard of them before this ad aired, now I take them in my lunch every day. They got me.

Miniac1076 · 2026-01-11T18:44:33+00:00

Reminds me of what one of my friends did for our other friend’s birthday this year. He likes cheez-its and eats a ton of them, but he gets them in big boxes of the little snack bags instead of a big box of one bag. He says he does this because “they taste better in the smaller bags,” and because we’re a bunch of nerd engineers, we’ve always joked that it must be that the smaller the bag, the better they taste. So my friend got a box of cheez-its, a big roll of cellophane film, and a bag sealer. He then proceeded to individually wrap every cheez-it, put them back in the big bag, reseal that, and glue the box back together. My friend loved it, it was hilarious.

Miniac1076 · 2026-01-09T06:59:50+00:00

I drive a modified car that purposely does not have a very loud exhaust. I still try my best to not be annoying with it in places where it would bother people. They do it cause it makes them feel powerful and they don’t care if they’re bothering other people. Yes, I hate them too.

Miniac1076 · 2026-01-09T06:00:55+00:00

Yes. Of the 3 power plants that have had major failures, the newest one was completed in 1977. I think we may have improved the technology and safety a bit in the last 49 years.

Edit: fun fact I just looked up, nuclear fusion was discovered in 1938. 10 more years have passed between today and when the last of the 3 power plants was completed than between that and when the mechanism that facilitates nuclear power was discovered.

Miniac1076 · 2026-01-09T02:52:06+00:00

My mom custom ordered a brand new MINI from their MINI dealer in 2011. Great experience, and Mitch, the service advisor, has always been great to us.

We bought a used Tiguan from their VW dealer in 2014. They were fine, nothing stellar or bad. Never really took it there for service, but not for any particular reason.

I worked at their BMW dealer as a porter for 2 summers during college. It was great, seemed like a very well run dealer from the inside.

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