My mom’s ‘22 Explorer’s transmission is terrible as well. I mean, it’s not dangerous, but it’s so incredibly unrefined. It’s hard to brake to a stop smoothly because of how abrupt the downshifts are. And recently we were in the mountains and I put it in sport mode so it wouldn’t lug so much and it was doing all these…

Well, I guess that didn’t post, but just imagine a Hummer EV running over children.

And then for 2023:

The blue and red and nice.

I feel I live in a very insane world when a truck is $60-100k and people are actually buying it. Add that onto the fact that most truck buyers just use them to commute.

Why is NS the one doing anything? They should be footing the bill for an independent source to do the testing and cleanup. 

I recently got an e-bike and I’m starting to replace car trips with it despite not being super close to anything. It’s a lot of fun!

E-bikes are actually more efficient than regular bikes. Either one is great, though.

If it were the U.S. he probably would’ve died since it would’ve been a lifted pickup truck or a Suburban that hit him. 

Not that it makes a huge difference in this comparison, but where is the average cost for an oil change on a Corolla $104? Local places around here charge about $40-50 for a typical SUV with conventional oil.

Classic Ronnie...

Most people don’t have 22 mile commutes. And 52% of car trips are 3 miles or less. The point isn’t to get every single person out of their car, it’s to make it so people don’t have to rely on cars to get literally anywhere through better infrastructure, smarter zoning, and better mass transit.

I seriously don’t understand why we (rightfully) have crash safety regulations for cars and what not and yet we allow companies to experiment with “self-driving” tech on roads with actual people.

It’s great that rich people get their big, expensive EVs subsidized while something actually good for the environment like an e-bike has no subsidy.

If you want less drunk drivers maybe work towards not having car dependence.

Just the name alone is enough to make you not want it.

The only one I’m “offended” is on here is the Mazda 6. They simply were better driving cars than most in their class, had a good manual, had a nice interior, and looked the best in their class.

This isn’t necessarily a rip-off story because I don’t think they charged for it, but a few years ago my sister couldn’t get her bike rack out of the hitch receiver on her Mazda 3. She came home and I attempted to loosen the bolt holding it in and it snapped. I didn’t feel like going any further at this point and I…

It’s a shame they couldn’t get it all sorted because this looks awesome.

It’s not quite the same, but it reminds me of the extreme compression used in the mixing and mastering of music these days. A little bit of compression can be good, but a lot of it is very bad and yet it’s the status quo now...