It’s an SUV now.

Wait until you see the price when you upgrade to the model with more than 10 miles of range!

Yeah, a few grand didn’t make much difference when I got my 15-year adjustable-rate loan for my F-250 King Ranch.

Post it on Craigslist.  You’ll get plenty of people offering you an old Huffy bicycle, a used tampon, and $50 for it.

Sigh.  My Dodge Journey never makes this list.  I thought that car salesman was full of sh!t when he said I’d still have negative equity even if I had title-in-hand, but maybe he was just being...honest?

The Ram is conspicuously absent from that list of trucks. Maybe that explains the crickets I got in response to my recent Autotrader listing. Seriously... no tire-kickers, looky-loos, lowballers, or scammers. Just nothing.

Let me preface this by saying my adoptive “father” was an idiot who nearly got me killed quite q few times.
I was 8 or 9, we’ re living in San Francisco, and the old man decides we need to go see his wife’s family in Iowa. This would be circa 1972.
So we jump in his ‘59 Impala, he tossed a sleeping back in the back…

And that would have happened almost immediately, but very likely he’d have veered onto the shoulder, been honked at, rubbed a guard rail, or something to wake his ass up. I’ve been dumb and driven while tired but rumble strips or the terror of my eyes shutting has always jolted me awake and convinced me to pull over. 

One thing I found REALLY weird about Mazda is NVH varies by Trim...

For example, when I was buying a 6, I discovered things like acoustic glass and extra noise insulation were only on the high trims, and it was night and day difference.

I don’t know any other manufacturer that varies so much in NVH by trim.

So be sure…

No problem. Mazda wouldn’t shut up about it!

My dearly departed Mom had one of these - same color as well. It saved her behind when she was t-boned at an intersection. She bought a ‘95 Impala but never liked it as well.

I don’t know how much this is worth, but I know what it will become in its next life. Strangely, I like these and slabs. Stance still sucks.

This was in Canada - ya hoser, eh. Take off.

I wonder if the bus driver gave them a token of appreciation.

Would I? Hell, I’ve done it. Picked up a guy walking with a gas can, gone around the cloverleaf to get back to somebody by the side of the road (just needed a jump, no problem), carried a woman all the way to my house to use the phone (there were no cell phones in those days, and she had no change for a pay phone and…

I pretty regularly have my low profile small jack and an impact in my car for some reason.  I’ve probably helped 3-4 people out in the past year who had flats and they were super appreciative to be back on the road in 5 minutes instead of 30-60 minutes struggling with a scissor jack.

I stop regularly to push people out of the snow. That’s just sort of how Canada is. If was in the US? Hell no. You people have guns.

I think about this sometimes. It almost never comes up any more. Back when I was a kid driving around cars broke all the time, and it was usually stupid stuff to do with points or distributors or carb chokes that you could actually do something about on the side of the road just so they could drive home and see their…

I’ve done it... lots depends on gut feeling and the circumstances.

I lived off campus in crappy apartments in college. There was a short stretch of interstate between me and campus that I could take if I was in a hurry (I drove it daily of course). College kids are always late for something, drive the cheapest crap they can find and drive like morons. At least once a week, a car…