You’d be surprised at how many cars will fit 3 car seats. It might be tight, it might take some interesting tetris, but unless you have triplets, you probably dont have all 3 in huge infant seats. We managed 3 in a lexus NX, and even my bmw I3 for a very short time. Over a year in my old squarebody blazer (we had to…

Jesus a bunch of these comments make for a cathartic read. I’m certainly not making light of anyone’s awful experiences but as an ex soldier and air traffic controller for 25 years, when big shit goes wrong: ok, let’s get this fixed.

We paid just under MSRP at 53 for a woodland. Looks like the highest end with everything is $57,270 before they literally force you to take port and dealer add-ons.  I thought they spec’ed over 60 and sit corrected.  Carry on good sir.

We waited 2 years from order time to delivery for our Sienna. (And we still didn’t get exactly what we wanted because Toyota doesn’t do custom orders)

Loaded ICE minivans for 55? Have you priced a Sienna recently? Ours is middle of the road at 53.

Aren’t we kind of talking about the mid range adv bikes? 450ish lbs. Hp in the 75-100 range, which is certainly enough to get out of its own way. Upright seating position. There is a reason banana seats dont really exist anymore. The little transition from lower front to slightly higher back seat gives the passenger a…

4 door jeeps with angry eyes.  A jeep is whatever but you just know there is a huge dbag behind the wheel the second the angry eyes are put on.  Bonus points for thin blue line stickers, 22 in rims with painted on “off-road” tires, and 50k worth of overlanding equipment on a vehicle so shiny, it has never even seen a…

This is what I’m worried about. I drive a bmw and always use my signal. I learned to drive first and THEN got a bmw much later in life so I cant just shake those bad habits of signaling and paying attention.  I’m genuinely worried that I’m going to give someone a heart attack one day because I don’t drive like they…

That has always been Harley’s issue though. You can buy a better bike in literally any measurable metric from fuel economy to power to reliability, but they had resale value and the douchebag cred of owning a Harley over something foreign. Now they don’t have the resale value and there is domestic competition that is…

My old truck has chrome bumpers and tow hooks from the factory...On board with most of your list but factory equipment probably needs exceptions.

That’s why he’s really angry.  The only metric that Harley used to be good at was resale...and that has all tanked.  He thought it would be worth full price forever and now it is worth less than the firearms he brought up there.

The 712s were geared lower. 45ish to them was 55-60 in a 710.  If I could convince my wife (I cant), I’d get a 710K.  Always wanted the hard top radio truck.

Third on the pinzgauer. I had a 712 AMB (6x6 with the ambulance box). I tried to get it stuck...I tried hard. 4 foot deep mud pit? Meh. Crazy near vertical climbs? Sure. Tip it sideways until you are SURE it will tip over? It just kept going. I pulled an LMTV trailer (6500 lbs empty btw) up a hill that range rovers…

12 to 15 what now? 15,000ft is the service ceiling for most small aircraft because any higher requires a pressurized cabin or oxygen. Even military helicopters (blackhawks, chinooks...) don’t like it up that high and they are more powerful than civilian counterparts.  Those are limited to 12k without special…

Huh, I could swear I remember reading that one of the little suzuki’s didn’t have a low range.  Well, I sit corrected (just had surgery so not much standing going on).

Seems like a ancient regulation that needs an update.

I’m confused. A hummer H1 isn’t even the ultimate off-roader at 1/4 the price. The lower control arms that hinder it’s ground clearance, huge size, lack of creature comforts, GM engine with a very likely casting flaw...  You know you can buy a pinzgauer for 15-20k right?  In the 200k range, I could be driving a Kamaz…

Shave-Ice (as it’s called in Hawaii) is super popular. You’d think it would have started there, but it seems Baltimore was serving something similar as far back as the 1850s. Who knew?

And here i am with an electric bmw that has a dead AC compressor.  Replacement is 5-7 grand.  Car has 50k miles on it.  Anecdotal...but hard to agree with the current gen stuff.

Dont touch this thing with a 1000 ft pole. They have a ton of stupidly expensive issues and share a lot of failure prone parts from the I3. AC compressor goes out? 5 grand. 7 grand if it threw metal shards into the cooling pipes for the battery and it has to be cleaned out. Ask me how I know...and why I don’t have AC…