I’ve almost always found forum threads to be more helpful than youtube.

For me, a heater. I live in the northeast, it gets cold and windy up here. I could wrench outside in my insulated onesie with a down jacket underneath, or I could pull into my garage, heat it up to 70* and wrench comfortably all day. Normally I only heat the garage overnight to 45* which is plenty to melt any snow or…

Fore/aft motorized seats are an abomination. If it can’t be shoved back immediately by grabbing a handle, it’s already broken.

Poor paint quality. Particularly in the 90s, when clear coats seemed to be a pure experiment that failed more times than not. Now, you can own your car for 10-15 years and that white frost will never appear unless you totally neglect your car. In the Honda world, we lovingly refer to our “Milano Red” cars as “Milano…

I just give them a sarcastic thumbs up.

I love how he is all badass until he lets off the first shot then cowers.

“In November 2021, and with just about 56,500 miles (91,000 km) on the clock”

The issue is we still build things, and are fairly good at building things.

1st gear:

Im vaxxed, still wear a mask, and 100% believe COVID is deadly.

The science said we needed 70% vaccinated to get herd immunity and we are there in the USA. Where did Omicron originate? Where did Delta originate? Where are the newest variants originated from? All are highly contagious even among the fully vaccinated (and boosted) and cause sickness and death. What measures are in…

It’s not going to be about repairing bridges and roads. Our transportation secretary already said that:

So you aren’t a risk taker, eh?

You can buy a new Grand Cherokee for $38k. This is a high trim version with a high price powertrain. It’s not super clear what the base 4xe trim compares to, but it does start with leather, so probably the Limited. The 4xe is basically an $11k option on the Trailhawk though.

Using your Rolex example, sometimes the trade-off on luxury is that it’s less practical. I’d say it’s less about the feeling of specialness than it is about prioritizing the either the craftsmanship or the aspects of the material over the practicality. You’re paying because you want that traditional mechanism. Similar…

They’re all cheap. We’re still waiting on “inexpensive.” 

No.

You’re on to something with the “serve a purpose” distinction. With cars being complete commodity items these days, and features making driving/riding in them comfortable and safe having become rather common place (Hyundais with rear seat heaters, crash test scores on mass market cars that are way beyond anything you…

Mercedes must’ve skipped their routine door-shut butt-plug testing.

That isn’t a fair comparison since both the Camry and Civic have much better build quality.