In my part of NE Ohio, far and away the best quality is a local chain of 19 stores called Heinen’s. Excellent in every way, and far superior to the much larger chain Giant Eagle. Greater Clevelanders, represent!

I viewed HS as a four-year prison sentence until I could go to college and study only what interested me. I attended my 10th reunion where the men all wore suits to show how we were adults with careers, six years out of college. An old friend contacted me prior to our 35th because I was still in the area, and enticed…

You make a lot of good points. I am big on never trying to cut cost on materials. I buy the quietest, highest CFM Broan or Panasonic bathroom fans. I buy chrome plated, solid brass Moen faucets. In our previous starter home I installed an extra-deep and heavy-gauge Elkay kitchen sink. We just installed a Toto Drake…

Until the end user has to pay some kind of big price/tax for huge vehicles, they’ll continue to dominate.

...the vast majority of people would like to live in a world with less pollution, less noise, less climate uncertainty...But nothing electric will EVER give the same type of joy that shifting a manual ICE around a track brings...It’s the sound, the feeling of connectedness to the machine...

Yes, you can pay for extra meat and/or extra cheese. Also extra bacon like I do on their #26 Chicken Bacon Ranch sub.

Jersey Mike’s is the best chain option here in northeast Ohio. There are three within a reasonable drive from me. Better with more choices than DiBella’s, and way better than lesser chains like Jimmy John’s, Firehouse, or (gag) Subway. Personally, I’d skip the “Mike’s Way” preparation, choosing mayo instead. My…

Agreed. If I get a new car equipped with this, I want to be able to turn off auto stop-start once and have the car remember my setting. I don’t want to have to do this every time I start the car.

I can certainly do without touchscreen controls. Give me knobs for HVAC. I would be happy to have a single- or double-DIN audio head unit, with seven speakers total: Front midwoofers and tweeters, rear fill speakers, and a single subwoofer. Better seven high quality drivers than fifteen or twenty cheap speakers. All…

I’d like to know how many of those 1573 were 6-speed sticks, which require the top level “A-Spec with Tech Package” trim. That’s the only version I would consider.

They need some payment just to cover the cost of feeding, sheltering, and providing health care for these companion animals.

my kid could use a car

I kind-of, sort-of, vaguely remember getting a ham and cheese sandwich on ostensibly “whole wheat” bread in either Middle School 1966-1969 or High School 1969-1973 for the princely (government subsidized?) sum of $0.35. Yes, thirty-five cents. The 50-ish-year-old servers told me what a great deal I was receiving. Of…

I don’t know what that vehicle is, but it certainly embodies multiple over-used design cliches: Black plastic cladding over the wheel wells, excessive creases in the body panels “because we can”, over-styled rear and rear side marker lights, an enormous grill, and excessively large diameter wheels with excessively…

I know you are Canadian, but here in USAistan, “ADA Compliant” is your friend.

Fat boomers who wouldn’t be caught dead in a subcompact hatchback are suddenly throwing money at whatever POS slightly taller subcompact CUV is being marketed

OK, let’s assume that an hour of Honda dealership technician time costs $200 in NYC; it’s currently about $120 in NE Ohio. So even four hours would be at most $800 in labor. In what world does a single replacement OEM catalytic converter cost $3000-plus? That is completely insane for a car that sold for less than…

“Fratzonic chambered exhaust”? Exactly what exhaust is being chambered, and how? What a triumph of Marketing-speak bullshit.

I’m going to use this opportunity to plug my favorite upscale local grocery store chain https://www.heinens.com/ because they carry some varieties of Grillo’s Pickles, which are excellent. But pickle-flavored chips, hummus, etc.? No, thank you.

As a hard core amateur mechanic for almost 50 years (who as I get older have relinquished more and more work to dealership technicians), I find your experience disgusting. Please reply with the name and location of this reprehensible dealership as a warning to all.