If it’s just the infotainment stack, this would be the 3rd time Ford has switched partners while retaining the Sync branding.

Buccees is likely one of the better positioned gas station chains to survive a transition to EVs. They are popular in large, roadside stops between metro areas, and they are busy making their convenience stores destinations in their own right.

Normally, I would say that’s great. The circa-2020 8S CA license plate, however, screams flipper to me, and that said flipper is appropriating the story and the paperwork from the couple he paid $1000 to to take the car off their hands. A single-owner 1994 California car should come with plates in the 3G-3J range.

You just described property taxes. Clearly that’s a wealth tax that we’ve all been used to paying, we just need to apply it to more liquid forms of property. Stocks and securities transfer tax, maybe?

So it’s got 12 Changlis of HP, 4 Changlis of range, but costs 16 Changlis? ND.

I hope I’m wrong too, but shit, this is what it’s looking like. I’m still scarred enough that I won’t let my guard down till that MF dies.

Whether or not that was his intention, what is the actual effect is that T**** gets to crow to his base about how he’s standing up to the swamp, Turtle gets his $600 to save the 2 GA seats, and the 52-48 GOP senate blockades everything in the Biden admin.

Part of the problem is how a home is financed vs how a home renovation would be financed. Most Americans probably could not afford to pay cash for new carpets and cabinets, and credit for those kinds of renovation would come with a far higher monthly payment than having it rolled into the initial purchase price at a…

Alternate title: EV maker leaves A-hole in Texas.

Pretty sure High Pressure Fuel Pump refers to the pressure IT puts YOU in after leaving you stranded for the 5th time?

That’s actually the reference. And in fact, that little guy there is built on a ‘90s Opel platform in Brazil, and $20k would be about the right price for it if built in NAFTA area on say something like a current Spark platform. The Spark itself is built in Korea.

I’m having trouble imagining situations where the TC won’t do that the Maverick is suitable for. The only ones I could think of are for gardening companies to keep their tools and mulch outside of the cabin. A double-cab short bed Maverick is almost laser focused on the consumer snapping up used mini trucks for $10k+.…

Thanks, Kevin. One question: do you know about the proportion of the time you dedicate to driving for Uber/Lyft that you’re actively picking up people, vs the amount of time you’re dead-heading driving back to where passengers originate? Proponents of the now-enacted Prop 22 in CA are intentionally being opaque about…

Can confirm. My ‘66 has faux wood in the IP and glovebox. At first glance I thought the package was an *interior* faux wood applique, which would at least be historically accurate.

Raise your hand if you would like to pay $19.9k for a Spark-based, Mexican-built FWD unibody pickup with a 4-foot bed.

The Ridgeline is a bit too big for the “small truck” people. It seems like the Platonic ideal for the small truck people is a regular cab ‘94 Toyota Pickup or a pre-2011 regular cab Ford Ranger, depending on where your loyalties lie.

Any of the no-frills cars sold in the US for under $20k aren’t built here, so the chicken tax makes that a non-starter.

I think a big problem is that for the majority of the public, before they pony up the cash for the second most expensive thing they will ever buy, they need to know that it works for 100% of their use cases, and not 90% plus a rental for the 10% of the time it doesn’t work.

Both of those are expired as of 2019. Same for Bradley’s Leaf.

Some local Nissan and Honda dealerships may be able to service Infiniti and Acura cars, and in some cases even do warranty work on them.