Conversely, you’d be surprised how many of the automatic driving heathens have more wrench and seat time than the elitists.

But this isn’t just paying for convenience. What he paid for A) didn’t really need done for the most part, and B) if it did, should have cost a fraction of that amount.

He overpaid for unneeded service and then freely put it out there while trying to justify it... for who knows why.

$330 for parts/fluids/fees? I have never been to a shop charging a “fee”. OEM spec brake fluid and coolant can’t cost more than $50 total. A belt is $15-20. There are no parts or fluids for cleaning a TB or injectors.

Assuming they billed for 3 hours, this should have been max $500... which is still so high it makes…

This wasn’t just a dealer working on his car.  This was a dealer scamming him out of nearly a grand.

This is rough but, it’s the truth. It’s one thing to be writing about a subject you aren’t an expert in. It’s quite another to write about an incredibly stupid and naive thing you did, and try to tell a readership who for the most part are experts in the subject you’re writing about that it wasn’t stupid or naive.

He…

I don’t know what the “big city fee” is for car work in that amazing giant apple, but from a midwest point of view, he got taken to the CLEANERS on that transaction. Fluids and literally 10 minutes to unbolt a throttle body, spray it, and wipe it with a microfiber cost seven hundred and fifty dollars?? That’s not…

Indeed. ASSUMING that you have the budget to afford a costly repair when the time comes, 19k seems like a very reasonable point of entry to get into a Porsche that is practical enough to enjoy daily, year round. Cost of ownership will likely be magnitudes higher than say a Honda, but if someone is considering a…

Having controls available to a human is a fail-safe. It doesn’t matter who is piloting/controlling/driving the vehicle, just that there is a way to do so in the event of an issue with said pilot/controller/driver. If an EV computer fails, you’re shit outta luck. If a pilot has a heart attack, you have a copilot…

Regular maintenance and not beating on it should do the trick. This isn’t exactly a hoonmobile, but you are right that any repair on this will be much costlier than on a Toyota even if they aren’t a result of neglect.

I’m not sure if 115k qualifies as high mileage, unless something about this motor was a ticking time bomb?  Cars from 2010 and on will easily push 200k if taken care of.

a large criticism that has been leveled at GM for some time, specifically that it has been amongst the slowest in its peer group in improving MPG and efficiency in its V8 vehicles and has some of the worst V8 vehicles on the market from these perspectives

I don’t care what your perfect worldview is, your ideals don’t change how things actually are. Right now, automakers need to pivot. But you can’t pivot so drastically that you bankrupt yourself. Who does that help? So while they invest in newer, cleaner technologies, they are doing what they need to do to keep the…

Yep, that was my fear. Crossing fingers for a base model with a smaller engine. I mean, if they have a new platform that’s lighter and more nimble with current tech, even something making the same power as the Z34 is currently would be sufficient. I’d buy what would essentially be a Toyobaru with 300-325 hp in the high…

The Good: manual, ICE, FI from the factory so tunable, competitive power for the segment, throwback styling.

The Bad: how much will this cost?   Are they going back upmarket like the Z32 was in the 90's?  Is this a Supra fighter, or will there be a base model in the 20's to compete with EB Mustangs?

3rd Gear/4th Gear:

Gosh are you insufferable. To make a new product, you need to spend money. To have money to spend, you have to make money. To make money, you need to sell a product. To sell a product, you need to offer a product people want. To offer a product people want, you need to make it in sufficient…

I’m not comparing mobile games’ “ownership” to subscriptions’ “ownership”, I’m comparing the sunk cost you can’t recoup after your card is charged in both cases. Whether you get one day, one month, or one year of use of the digital asset is irrelevant to my point. I’m just pointing out that in both cases, you’re…

What you said doesn’t just apply to mobile games, but any subscription service where you pay money to have temporary access to digital assets you don’t own. Granted, it’s quite possible to spend more than a monthly subscription on these games compared to Netflix, but it’s also possible to play them for absolutely…

Aren’t most dollars spent for entertainment “lost”, either by paying for experiences which can’t be resold? Paying a subscription to WoW, a mobile, game, or Disney+ results in the same thing - you get entertainment for a bit, and end up with nothing to really show for it but memories. You could say the same for dining…

Catchy-est gd Disney song of all time.  My kids still play it on youtube every once in a while.

You may want to adjust the headline; somehow I don’t think “every” means what you think it means.

Unless Tesla cut a whole bunch of trim levels and packages.