I don’t know how it is in Connecticut, but my least favorite stretch of I-95 is between DC and Fredericksburg. It’s brutal.

You know what’s even easier than figuring this out? Not having kids in the first place.

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Meh, I live in an 800sq/ft house and drive cars of modest size. I still think there are simply too many people in the world. Which mother nature will correct eventually.

Yup. My hybrid RAV4 gets 37 mpg across the board. I couldn’t buy the plug in hybrid in 2021 because there just weren’t enough for everyone who wants one. Toyota is slow and deliberate on purpose. EV infrastructure is lacking outside of major population centers at the current time. Hybrids are a good balance until that…

lol @ paying 50k for a Corolla

Can we just stop with the winter storm naming? The National Weather Service and NOAA don’t do it. The for-profit Weather Channel INSISTS on pushing it down upon everyone who visits their site.

If I’m a Russian oligarch and my yacht is only worth $700k, I’d want to vanish too.

No photos of the cars?...

The main issue here is that plug-in hybrid + long trips does not make sense. If this is going to be a station-wagon daily driver, then get the PHEV. If this is mainly for long trips, the PHEV part is really not that beneficial, and might actually be a penalty because you’re hauling around a bigger battery that is not…

My daughter is looking for a car to take to college, and with space for a dorm room’s worth of stuff and ease of repair, this would be a great choice if it weren’t so expensive. My totally uninformed dad-gut opinion is this is a great $4000-5000 car.

For the BEV adoption it really depends on where you live how ready you are. If you live on the coast near a major metro area you’re probably setting pretty good for infrastructure and buying one wouldn’t really cause an inconvenience. If you live in rural America then that infrastructure sucks and it’s going to suck…

I lived in Streeterville right by the lake not far from this crossing. There is an underpass at Randolph on the north end and another at the south end by the Field Museum near Roosevelt. The rest are surface crosswalks. A string of beautiful footbridges would make for more access to the lake, but I question the need.…

I’m showing my age. Iron Duke immediately came to mind.
2nd pick would be my parents 2010 2.5 Outback with the CVT.

Exactly. I don’t doubt that big companies like HD are going to make decisions based on profits but we also need to apply some basic logic here as well. I’d like to know the details of the situations that sparked the lawsuits. Did someone have a terrible shop install an aftermarket radio with hot glue and wire nuts and…

At the schoolyard, the scuttlebutt was that Jalopnik wanted to make one page, but the Bean Counters (or Management) stepped in and forced them to make it a 22 page slideshow, instead.

Buzz kill here:  It’s between, not starting on x and ending on y.  So it’s valid.  

But if you go with the 740, you get the BMW V8, which is probably the only engine in the world which is less reliable than the V12. The V12 is mechanically solid with electrical issues, the V8 is relatively solid electrically but a mechanical disaster. I’ll take the V12.

I love it, but that price deserves a bigger smack down than Chris Rock. No dice.