What sucks is that I’ve had great success using cars.com to find exactly the car I want in the area and then contacting the dealership about it. Since I’m an “online” inquirer (even if I CALL about what I’m seeing in their inventory online) I get handed off to the greenest person in the sales team who doesn’t know to…

There’s overlap between M+S and 3 mountain peaks tires for what that’s worth.

We rented a car out there (Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP among a bunch of other places) one winter and still were expected to go and buy (no refunds!) chains. So yes, you’re absolutely supposed to have chains in many areas out west.

DTS was for us, who weren’t into F1 before.  What’s sort of great though is that now that we are into F1, the actual races and drama around them is even better than DTS covers!

You seem to understand why things are the way they are, but don’t want to accept it. DTS is an effective ad. What’s sort of great, is that F1 is even more interesting when you actually get into it!

I’m surprised to see someone complain about adaptive cruise control.  The adaptive cruise control in my 4Runner is great. No, it doesn’t help you in congested urban areas much. Yes it is super great on longer road trips.

The problem is cars and the people driving them. We need to unlearn the attitude that cars have a divine right to be in public space. Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Cars aren’t special. There is not reason we should be giving them special privilege in public spaces. We already give them way too much sway over way too much land especially in our dense urban centers.

A balanced RWD car can handle snow just great. Bonus if it is lightweight. I had a Miata I would switch to winter tires with and it handled snow covered roads amazingly.

Start googling some of the brands on the cars.  Philip Morris is already a major sponsor (but they use a different name I can’t remember right now).

I can’t stop making a cringe face. I might need medical attention soon. This is real bad. Like this took time to come up with, approve, decide on, design, and execute. How did nobody at any point think, “maybe not?” Just wow.

I don’t remember what year it was, but Jeep Wranglers could come with a stereo that required using voice command to connect your phone. We rented one on a trip and had to get the manual out for that. There was no way to do it via the buttons on the infotainment system.

In Boston there is a split before getting on Storrow Drive from Rt 1 and 93 South that people like to pretend is a zipper merge.

BPD aggressively avoids any and all enforcement.  It is ridiculous.

And while the intro was well done, after the 20 years later step, it turned into very run of the mill post apocalyptic tropes. As someone not interested in the games, the show feels really dull and I’m team mushroom zombies.

I recently read an argument that they aren’t creating repeat buyers. I don’t know if there are real numbers (and not just experience) to support that though.

“Theranos, FTX and dieselgate have nothing to do with Elon Musk or Tesla.”

Haven’t they spent ludicrous amounts of money on trying to make that happen? As someone else mentioned, maybe these pricing claims are rooted in them shifting around R&D amortization because it doesn’t seem THAT long ago that they LOST money on each car they sold and had to make it up on selling carbon credits.

Am I the only one who uses cars.com?  I’ve used it to grab my last two cars at MSRP from dealers before the sales people even knew they were in stock.  There’s several CTR on there near me at MSRP and I’m sure more show up regularly.

Cars.com has a similar number listed.  Many at MSRP.  My experience is if you just contact the dealer about the listing there that’s what you get.  Did that with two previous cars.  Both of those were in demand cars and one was rarer than a Civic Type R (Miata RF).