I will never understand why people think a city designed for pedestrians is a good thing. Who wants to be limited to the ~10 businesses within a mile or so of your house or apartment?

A failed catalytic converter (or failed coils causing a failed cat) is the biggest cause of engine failure in the RX-8, so removing it really does serve a useful purpose. It can’t handle the heat, falls apart or melts, and the resulting exhaust restriction kills the highly strung engine.

Add one more to that list. I bought an F80 M3 last week because it was the only RWD performance sedan available with a manual (Chevy SS and several Cadillacs excluded for plastic interiors). I test drove a Quadrifoglio, and it has better styling, better handling, and a much better engine, but it’s not available with a…

I could sell the 2017 86 I bought new for more than I paid for it right now, that’s never supposed to happen (unless you buy a limited-run Porsche).

I used LemonSquad just last week. Their inspection was pretty thorough, kinda like your average-to-good BaT listing.

To be fair this event was only a few days after the CDC decided to announce that masks aren’t actually necessary for vaccinated people...

I’ll go beyond ‘not paying extra for’ and instead ‘willing to pay extra to remove’ almost anything electronic.

I’m not old enough for this list to be very interesting.

But to the person you were originally replying to, it makes sense right?  Connecting cities and states to each other has just about nothing to do with public transit within those cities.

At least in my case, when you talk about the interstate system, I think of the thousands of miles of roads connecting cities to other cities, not the few dozen miles inside of each city.

A lot of the U.S. was not designed with a passing lane. There’s a left lane and a right lane, and that’s it. The volume of traffic is too high for one lane to go unused and still allow safe distance between cars.  Because we have fairly low speed limits, there’s not really a need for a dedicated passing lane, as just…

I have to agree. To me, luxury means real materials (metal, wood, leather), build quality, reliability, usability, and performance, in that order.

Or just living in a cheap part of the country.  There are a lot of places where $100k gets you a decent house with a garage, and on a thirty year mortgage that’s under $500 a month.

It’s a perception thing more so than a reflection of the car itself. Kind of like why nobody wants to buy a Lexus despite them being decent cars nowadays.

It looks like someone dipped the middle of a 240Z in wet plastic and pulled it out.  The ends look alright but there’s about two inches of plastic coating the rest of the body.

I see open source operating systems for cars in our future.

Am I the only one who is consistently surprised the Escalade is as expensive as it is? Every time I see one I think ‘Poorly built Tahoe with plastic body panels and a cheap interior’. It boggles the mind that people pay $100k for those things.

Things like this make me want to go out and buy a Morgan.

I’ve never been asked for my vehicle’s mileage when renewing registration in Ohio. They do write it on the title transfer when you buy or sell a car, but it never changes after that. As far as the state is concerned my car from 2017 still has only 110 miles on it.  It is kind of weird that they print the mileage on…

The point is that the hardware is almost certainly incapable of what’s being advertised, regardless of how much the software improves. (And that’s assuming such software will ever be possible, which is not a certainty).