My wife works in prosthetics and they’re trying to help a patient who really wants to use a manual again. It’s not going to well as even the nicest limb on the market can’t move the same way your natural arm can when it comes to the motion for shifting. Most R&D dollars go to lower limb prosthetics since way more…

VA used to charge hybrids and EVs an additional $64 at registration each year to make up the gap, but apparently they changed it to EVs only while I was out of state... I just remember I had a friend pissed he was paying that tax, thinking it was a tool to get consumers to buy more trucks instead.

Even new cars make me weary since they get damaged and repaired sometimes before the first buyer get the keys. I’m an insurance adjuster, if you saw the amount of garbage cars being bought and then “repaired” and sold with clean titles you’d be weary too. Unless it’s a CPO and I can inspect it/research it’s VIN on my…

I sold my 2013 FR-S to the local Carmax a few years ago and it was the least stressful car experience I’ve ever had. I kept track of my VIN to see what they were asking for it. In October 2015 they were asking $19k for it, so roughly $2500 over what they paid me. They were also listing it as a clean vehicle, even…

About 6 years ago my (future) father in law was pushing me to try and make homebrewing into a full business plan since I had no college debt and a decent paying job with plenty of free time. We looked around, our market is roughly 2-3 million people locally and heavy on tourists, and we only had 5 independent…

That’s my point, it’s idiots who only care about themselves doing this stupid stuff. I’m pointing out the absurdity that he asks who crosses a street.

Better question, who races a Mustang against an Altima...

**Caps fan here** I’ve done worse punching trees rather than cuss at people who pissed me off in public since it can get you thrown in jail for a night in our city... that said, I need those hands in good shape in case these boys actually pull off a win tonight.

Yeah, my wife is on a plan with her parents since they own a small business and get a discount, and I’m with my family since my mom gets a discount through her job. If my wife and I were to get our own plan, it’d be easily $120 a month with fees, etc... I have a Samsung S8 through my job, but A) am an iPhone man, and…

I’m an insurance adjuster in a decent sized east coast metro area. I can’t tell you how many of my customers have the iPhone X or whatever and are driving 15 year old Suzukis that “weren’t” pieces of shit before the accident... the demographic tends toward late teens-early 30s minority, both men and women. The number…

I’m 28 and have been on my family plan for Verizon for the past 14 years. I can’t figure out the math on getting my own plan and making it work in my favor from a financial point. Honestly, of my peers, the only ones not on their family plan still are the people with a poor relationship to their parents. I can’t…

I had a 2018 Raptor overtake my rental Accent on the highway the other day and couldn’t help but laugh out loud at the sound of his exhaust. My cowork thought I was crazy, so I dropped the rental into low gear and when the revs shot up over 5k he agreed that the little 4 cyclinder sounded better than that turbo V6.

Dealer added options are the issue in my area. We have 6 Chevy dealers within a 30 minute drive of my house and each of them has managed to put $10k worth of modifications into nearly every Colorado on the lot. My father in law wants a Duramax LT because he’s got an 80 mile highway commute each day, but every single…

How does the interior and driving compare to the lower trim XC90s. My inlaws want a 3 row, and the wife is trying to convince them to get a XC90. I’m convinced a upper trim level Subbie would be luxurious enough for her parents, so I’m curious if they’ve managed to keep up the nice leather and wood into a larger model…

4 years ago I made a trip from coastal VA up the Eastern Shore to Rehoboth Beach, DE. We drive my 2013 FR-S which got about 30 MPG over the 400ish round trip using premium. This weekend we took the same trip in my wife’s 2017 Civic hatch and we averaged 46 MPG on regular. Can we afford a truck/SUV/CUV, sure? But the…

I moved from college every year with my 2008 Cobalt coupe. Somehow I fit a 32" CRT TV into the back seat and have plenty of room to stretch my legs. The car was surprising spacious, I’m just over 6 ft and could get 3 people in the rear bench easily while being comfortable driving. When I moved to a 2013 FR-S I barely…

I guess the guy down the street should have waited a few more months. He bought a yellow Type R even though he wanted blue. Said guy promptly spent even more money to wrap his yellow Type R with blue vinyl over the course of 2 weeks. I’m sure he’s easily spent close to $45k just for wanting to have it first.

I worked at a theme park in ride ops all through high school and college. Coasters “break down” a lot, but usually it’s caused by a fault that the computer recognized and wants acknowledged before something bigger happens. Most theme parks with newer steel coasters are fine, restraints are designed to fail into their…

Always put the parking brake on. My grandfather was taught that when he learned to drive in the 40's and passed that info down to my mom. My mom passed that down to me, and I used my parking brake since my car was a manual. My mom was driving an 04 Suburban Z71 at the time which my dad lifted just high enough to fit…

As a Ford stockholder, I’m not sure how I feel. On one hand, they’re responding to the market, however short sighted that is, so the dividends checks are nice when the stock goes up. On the other hand, the reason I see this as a poor move is due to the price increases. Ford just lost a large amount of future owners…