Just last night I almost hit some idiot who was crossing in the middle of a blind curve, where there is a guardrail he would have to climb over once he crossed the street, who stopped in the middle of the travel lane of a 5 lane road lane to examine his phone. He looked up just in time to see me coming and then ran…

Ford C-Max.  It’s so unknown that when I make deliveries and people ask what kind of car I’m in I tell them it’s a grey hatchback and if I tell them what kind of car it is they won’t know.  When I happen to deliver to someone that owns one they get all excited.

The Jumbojeep is a 76 CJ-7 on 35" tires. The same tires were on a 78 F-150 (I used to use the handle Jumbofordman on many internet sites.) That truck, lifted 3" and on the 35" tires was barely as tall as a stock truck is these days. I now have a Hemi Ram truck.

The T-bird version had better headlights and didn’t have the air suspension.  So it probably was a pretty good car!

A bit of a contradiction in your statement - ‘It’s not much cheaper than the rest of the NE’.  It should be more because of the extra labor to dispense it.

Pretty much the same thing happened to me in NJ back in the early 90s.

No, I don’t think it’s strange that pedestrian deaths are increasing in an era where pedestrians are walking around oblivious to everything around them because they’re either face deep in a phone screen or off in la-la land listening to things with their earbuds.

Smart Phones.

Same here. Back in the 80s/early 90s the three you mentioned were the big three of Japan. Now there are just the big two, with Nissan and Mazda trailing.  The one difference being Nissan has always had trouble with transmissions.

Every time I’ve been to NJ, the price for gas is the same or cheaper than neighboring states that allow you to pump your own gas.

The car is a nice highway cruiser. However, it has 2 big flaws. #1 is it has some of the worst headlights ever designed. Second is the air suspension, which is expensive to fix. Many people try to fix it cheaply by putting on a non-air suspension (as my friend who owned one did.) Sadly, this turn it into a T-bird with…

That was my question about all of these states - is enforcement there different? I know Virginia is (although in my experience they follow the typical of the south stay at 9 over or less and you’re fine.) The ‘tolerance threshold’ in Ohio is lower, I know (like stay at 4 over.)

My line of thinking was along a different direction when I made the 99% comment, and I was wrong, there does need to be a differentiator; however I think it’s used more often than necessary.

I have the benefit of not being and never have been a Twitterer.  I’m just pointing out that ‘medical descriptor’ and ‘slur’ aren’t non intersecting circles on a Venn diagram.

The BMW V8 is the most unreliable BMW engine I’ve owned.

They have issued vehicle recalls for manufacturing problems that have affected 100 cars or less.

Lot of ‘medical descriptors’ have become slurs.  Like the terms for people with less then average intelligence, or those with less than average height.  Furthermore, do we really need a descriptor for 99% of the people.

They would have to pay more.

You might get more money, but you have to wait for that unicorn buyer to show up that’s actually willing to buy it.

You keep a $40 spare handy.  Heck, keep 6 of them around.