It’s harder than it looks. There’s a considerable amount of skill involved in launching such that you keep the engine from bogging, but don’t just spin your tires, and you have to time the whole process just right, so that you actually start moving before the light turns green, but not so early that you cross the…

There’s one for sale on my local Facebook marketplace with an asking price of $4K. The ad says it has an oil leak that may or may not be the rear main seal, and that the AC doesn’t work. Mileage is kinda high at 172K, but that’s hardly unheard-of.

Does the bulkhead at the front of the bed open in some way, so you can load long things?

I worked at a Domino’s for a summer in high school. I was blown away by the number of people who ordered the “hawaiian.”

This has at least theoretically always been an option. I bought a Camaro (the old fashioned off-the-lot way) back in January, and after joining that particular enthusiast community, I’ve found that many of the members, who tend to be older and boomerier and more jortsy and New Balancey than me, ordered their cars this…

As an added bonus, they rearrange all the buttons every year or so, so as soon as you figure out where all the buttons are, they’ll change them up, and you get to look for them all over again!

There are some stations where there’s regularly a line several cars deep, while all of the stalls that aren’t broken (usually, about 2/3 are broken) are in use. The one in Waco is one such example. God help you if you need to make the drive from San Antonio to Dallas on a holiday weekend.

Wait, why did your house’s value “need” to increase by 50% over those five years?  What would have happened if it didn’t?

Why?  The plastic panels were super cool.  They made the car basically immune to door dings.  I remember the paint being pretty tough to really scratch, too.

Saturn seems like it would be a good brand to revive as an EV. Make them sort of like the original Saturns, where they’re sort of basic, but have all the stuff you actually need and are reasonably priced.

That is literally the question that HOAs are meant to answer.

It is. I actually got rid of mine because they forced a really terrible software update on me back at Christmas time, and then laughed when I suggested they should change it back. Apparently, Elon had tweeted that there would be a “HUGE UPDATE,” before Christmas, so there had to be a huge update, regardless of how…

Maybe it was a leftover 2020, and the guy was just a moron?

They did that shit to me in 2018. In fact, right after Hurricane Maria, they actually donated my Powerwall to Puerto Rico, and made me wait NINE MONTHS before they had one for me.

So, I have Tesla/SolarCity branded panels on the roof of my house. It’s a single great big monster inverter setup, versus the other type, with an inverter for every panel (supposedly less efficient?). Unlike basically everyone else I know who has the micro-inverter type of system, I’ve had zero problems with mine. I…

Hey, my post made it into the list!

With the exception that aviation engines usually have integral cylinder heads to the jugs, that’s pretty much exactly how aviation piston engines are designed, right down to the awkward shrouds you have to pull off to do anything to them and fouling plugs.

I had to think hard about this, but... Chrysler 2.5L 4 cylinder in the 1987 Dodge Aries we had when I was a kid.

The problem with this logic is that it’s not enough for the car to have enough range to get the person through their average day. That kind of thinking isn’t helpful, because it’s not the way people pick which car they want. It has to also be able to get them through their weekend.

You DO need 350 miles of range, though. First, because that 350 miles is really more like 250 in actual practice, and second because, even under the most ideal circumstances - that is, a Tesla, using superchargers, which are relatively ubiquitous - the need to go to those stations and charge constantly while doing a…