I agree, the more electrical components we keep adding the more issues were having. Actual mechanical systems seem to only be doomed to failure by poor maintenance or the OEM skimping on quality on a particular part, but almost every new car I’ve dealt with at work since 2012 has had some kind of weird electrical…

Other than the additional space, my wife’s favorite feature of her 19 Santa Fe is the audio controls. We previously had a 17 Civic with the slide and while she didn’t mind, I hated it.

Not only that, but the long term quality of the interiors isn’t pretty bad too. I sat in a 2017 Model S last week, leather on the seats was cracked and headliner sagging in areas. Really looked like a car from 20 years of wear, not 2.

After Hurricane Harvey hit Houston I went out there for insurance claims, then got voluntold to drive to Florida after 2 weeks to work Hurricane Irma. My company got me a hotel on the western side of Tampa and I was given claims in Okeechobee, about 150 miles away. I’d leave the hotel at 7am, go write like 4 or 5…

It’s a silly complaint. For everyday livability, a Highlander should be better than a 4Runner, or a Traverse better than a Tahoe, but for me I like the handling of BOF SUVs. I’m biased because I learned to drive in an 04 Z71 Suburban, but I really like the way big trucks handle. I’m not a fan of the 4Runner/Tacoma…

My first car, 1989 Prelude Si has no cup holders, but the seat boosters were the perfect distance from the emergency brake lever to stick a large cup from Taco Bell on each side. I could go around cloverleaf on ramps at normal speed and those cups would stay in place. 

Question, if you were to scrape along a car like that, would you realistically feel it in the cab? In investigate insurance claims, and the amount of cars I see that were legitimately hit by a much larger vehicle while unoccupied makes me think that some of these rigs are so heavy they have no idea they made contact…

This happened to my parents years ago. They won a raffle at a Relay For Life, like a $5 buy in ticket for a new car. My mom and dad both bought tickets to help the cause, but my dads ticket won a brand new Camry. He promptly turned around and sold it since we didn’t really need it and the $5kish tax bill on it really…

It’s no different than when BMW started to introduce M-Sport to slot between the pedestrian models and actual M badged cars. Where Cadillac went wrong was releasing this before the top spec V series. Had they released a CT5-V Blackwing or whatever first, I think people would understand this move better.

You’re correct on the last point. People don’t get rid of their newer Tahoe for a Tesla X when gas goes up. They sell it to Carmax and get a more fuel efficient used car so they’re still spending the same or less each month even after prices keep going up.

It’s definitely a taste you don’t realize you like until you’ve had a food multiple times only to find out it’s Greek/middle eastern. I swore I hate Greek food after trying hummus as a 10 year old at a fair, now I use what would be considered Greek spice profiles at least 1-2 times per week for dinner. What I will say…

As someone who was a Raiders fan as a kid (because my cousin gave me a hand me down Raiders T-shirt) and a Steelers fan as an adult (because my father in law pays for me my ticket to multiple games per year) I’m loving this move. 

I worked claims during in Houston after Harvey back in 2017. I can’t count how many customers I had that claimed floodwater damage and I couldn’t find evidence of it. I literally had one customer tell me that she had water up to the dash, car didn’t have a lick of rust on it. Turns out it was running rough because of…

Exactly. Outside of having a steel wire catch fence to collect the cars on the inside of that runoff, this was a collision that was bound to happen at some point. I’m not sure a broadside impact like that would have been survivable at the speed he got hit at, carbon fiber is strong but usually not in 2 directional…

I watched the videos multiple times, as an insurance analyst part of my job is figuring out how collisions occurred at the loss locations, so I was into this. The biggest issue is carbon fiber losses it’s structural integrity after its damaged anywhere. My wife makes prosthetics for a living and has shown me how small…

Small paved runoff, but the car ricocheted off the wall and back onto the racing surface and that’s where the fatal collision occurred. Unfortunately, carbon fiber is prone to catastrophic failure once the forces on it surpasses the designed intent or it takes even the smallest amount of damage elsewhere. SAFER…

I told my wife the same thing, we still ended up with a new Santa Fe. I did win the argument for the 2.0T Limited though, Hyundai threw enough cash on the hood to drop the out the door price in line with the SEL Plus trims that were on the lot. So if he can find a 2019 on the lot still, an AWD is a “wagon” per Hyundai…

My grandfather used to take me to McDonalds every Friday night as a kid in the mid 90s. I went from McNuggets, to the cheeseburger, eventually to the double cheeseburger when they offered a Mighty Kids Meal and tagged along with my younger sister, but my grandfather got the regular hamburger Happy Meal each time.…

RBR and Honda need to figure out how to fix their starts. I’m shocked we haven’t seen a collision like this involving Max yet this season since he’s trying to make up lost positions in turns 1 and 2.

Doumare’s in Norfolk, VA. I lived in the area my whole life, only about 30-45 minutes from this place and I never went until I finally had my own car. The founder was the guy who “invented” the ice cream cone, and while it’s a full menu drive-in, I’ve never ordered anything other than a strawberry cone. I moved away…