The “new car every 3 years” is really the wrong thing to be saying, when we’re at the thin end of the climate-crisis wedge. Leasing encourages more new cars, and the auto-makers understandably love that, but it’s not a very green option, is it? Buying a car (preferably EV or PHEV) and keeping it as long as you can is…

Is it because Fiat knows it will lose money but it helps Stellantis meet emissions requirements?

That isn’t what we do, at all. We are implementation engineers, and very highly trained and competent ones. We don’t do support at all (with very rare exceptions). When you don’t have the internal resources for your storage, networking, or virtualization refresh or deployment, you hire us to come in and do it for…

I think the era of crapcans is over. I drive a 18 year old Camry with 210k miles on it. It cost half as much as a new Mirage and it drives better. My Camry isn’t really that unique (well, actually given the 3rd pedal it is, but still). It could be a Mazda6, an Accord, or about a dozen other cars that would also be…

I’m pretty sure Fox’s producers get the joke. It’s simply that this is easy content to twist around into the Outrage of the Day to keep their septuagenarian audience from changing the channel to Newsmax.

Yeah, I’ve probably watched dozens of YouTube videos over the past two years predicting the imminent collapse of the used car price bubble. At this stage I’ll believe it when I see it.

Jokes aside, Jay has one of the most watchable car shows and is a true enthusiast and great ambassador for cars, I hope he is OK and heals up quickly.

Yeah, I remember reading an article from FM long ago saying “Don’t V8 swap a Miata,” Their reasoning was that you can have a hell of a lot of fun with something like a FM2 today with about 1/10th the budget, but if you keep saving up to get a V8 in it, you will miss out on the fun of having a much better Miata with…

So the dude blows $10K on the Benz and now he bails?

My hopes with DeSantis is that Trump is still alive for the 2024 elections and doesn’t DeSantis as the Republican candidate and decides to run as a third party alternative. I think it would fracture the Republican vote and give whatever Democratic candidate there is a chance to win against the fascist White Christian…

Has anybody here ever done something stoopid when they shoulda known better, even at work?

In the late 1980s a good friend had an Olds 98 sedan with the 350 Diesel V8. He put the car in the paper for sale, listed the engine as a 350 Diesel, and a guy came out to buy the car. They did the obligatory test drive, and the guy bought the car. A few days later he was calling my friend all sorts of bad names…

...President Trump’s erroneous tweets about “Antifa,”...

Trump could kill and eat a baby, documented on video from multiple media outlets, with several hundred eyewitnesses and he’d claim that it was fake news. His followers and RWNJ “news” outlets would concur and claim that it was <fill in choice of Democrat bogey-man> who actually ate that baby.

And apparently the DHS would try to find him more babies on the DL.

PS. if anyone cares, the story that got my dad a life time ban from the PTA back in the early 60s.

Yeah, it’s been I think 40 years since I got that F.

I happily drive a Chevy Sonic hatchback. It’s perfect for my needs. The day I brought it home, I packed away the package shelf and folded the rear seats down, and I don’t think I’ve had to raise them up since.  I’ve hauled a surprising amount of stuff back there with my recent move, and son’t think I’ve missed any…

That sounds like a combination of Mister Roberts and Operation Petticoat.

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