The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have

Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.

arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10/europe-shows-a-better-alternative-to-big-suvs-at-the-paris-auto-show/

Somehow I’m not going to lose sleep over not getting

You don’t get the 2CV. The ugly duckling is something special. And this revamp is good fun.

Y’all worry so much about looking tough that you don’t see the fun in life.

You’re right, it’s not available in the US, so I don’t get it.

Sometimes ugly ducklings are just ugly, and looking tough while going VROOM is the fun in life!

If you only knew that you don’t look very tough in oversized vehicles designed to avoid safety standards, emission standards and whatever other quality standards, just to pretend they could theoretically go off-road and put everyone else at unnecessarily grave risk to health and life.