True, one a road trip with a church group, car-caravan of sorts. My friend who was driving his car from college (now six kids later), blew a cylinder. Stopped off the road to repair his Sunbird, less than an hour later and < $100 in parts and we were on our way.   We all found this to be hilarious.

I love Volvos for many things, but reliability is not one of them.  Unless it’s a pre 1990 Volvo

If you need a big vehicle, minivans are ideal for most everything except large towing. I recently did the following with my minivan in the last month:

Agree. And minivans are a close second to station wagons. The only thing I would want to do with a big SUV is tow or go deep offroad, but maybe 2% of such owners do either of those two things.

Well, we’ll have to disagree there.  Suspension was fine, engine was not.

They could go mid-level like Acura and do fine.  But that was certainly their call.   Note that Mazda had a failed luxury attempt in the past, depends if they were going to learn from it. 

agree

Besides changing the oil, rotating tires, I had an A/C fan motor on my 1988 Toyota MR2 start making a loud grating noise and fail. I went under the dash and started taking stuff apart until I found the fan motor. I removed the fan motor, opened it up. Found some crap in it, cleaned it out, lubricated it, put it back…

Those two generators are worth more than the RV they are connected to. 

Not buying because they are insanely expensive and the depreciation is brutal.

Looks like my 2016 Mazda 6 is the only Mazda I will ever own.

Yeah, I figure the dually is for things like fifth wheels, but never seen a practical need for it.    Always had more problems with trailer tires blowing than the tow vehicle.   I’ve had that happen on my much smaller trailer.  

newer model year—more powerful engine. Also, when he did a GVWR with a back of the hand calc of what he had on board the trailer, they were likely at or exceeding it for the F250. In any case, blown engine. Nephew bought the salvage and found a replacement engine for $11k or something and replaced it six months later.…

My dad tows his fifth wheel with a diesel F-350 over the Rockies almost every year. He’s retired. My parents take it out where they were raised and live in it for 2 - 3 months. They need an F-350 for this purpose because when they towed it with a diesel F-250 they blew the engine.
Not everyone needs an F-350, but he…

Oh come on!  This is what the slides are for guys!  Jet Blue has a history of this.

Not sure I have a horse in this fight, but I do wonder because part of the point of moving the time around is to give a bit of extra daylight during the morning rush for part of the year as the daytime wanes. I can’t help but think that there’s some offsetting data here on lives saved vs lives lost over that.

Since I…

I owned a yellow beetle in college... 1974 beetle that I paid $400 for and it had a piece of wood for the passenger floor pan, but I loved it.

or son of Delorean: Cybertruck!!

up until recently Volvo offered a bright red option for a lot of its cars because that color was popular on its wagons in the 90s. But as noted, the problem with me is that most automakers offer a decent palette of colors, but on “average” models, we get very crappy options. After mistakenly buying a metallic gray…

my contention that I wish Musk would focus on SpaceX, where he seems to be his best self.  Tesla is fine, doing fine, and will probably do well if handed off to someone more operationally oriented and less showy at this point.