I mean, I’m convinced I need to buy an electric car, but I figure I should probably finish paying for my current car first. It seems like a dumb idea to dump your vehicle whenever gas prices skyrocket (or plummet).

It’s why buses work :)

The less you drive, the less you spend on gas. The more you spread out the cost of gas per mile to others, the more efficient you become.

An audience will turn on any entertainer who starts doing stuff they don’t want to hear. It’s not about wokeness or anything else other than “we want you to be funny again, but you aren’t and this whole trans thing you’re on really doesn’t work.”

Buy a new car instead of what you’ve got now!

“Get diesel instead of gas”

So you can get better mileage with diesel so why wouldn’t you just get diesel?

OK, so Diesel fuel will get you like 30% better mileage but the fuel costs 20% more and the car itself costs another 20% more so really you’re just getting a weird engine that you can’t fill up everywhere and…

The problem being, it’s very easy, in a moment when gas prices are at historic highs, to say “OMG THE BIDENS IS CANCELLING OIL” Especially if you really, really, really don’t want people to be talking about abortion.

So much of governance is trying to dodge the land mines the previous administration left you- The Trump administration opened up all these lands for lease by oil companies, then gas prices tanked thanks to Covid and the price of a barrel of oil went negative and now no one wants those leases.

So the biden…

Option. Should be standard for any Wagon/SUV.

The Jeep wrangler.
Yes, it is blisteringly competent off road. It’s an absolute trail beast. Jeep sells it as a freedom trail mountain machine, but what it’s buyers actually use it for is “butch Miata.” When 85+% of your trail beasts never see anything more challenging than a gravel driveway, it’s a total flop.

100% this for all wagons and SUVs. I love my outback but I have no idea why the cargo area and the backs of the rear seats aren’t covered in something that’s easy to clean and not carpet.

HD does seem to be on a product / design roll, but I continue to be amazed by the number of people who hate HD because... they’re HD. So very odd. Seems that when someone is trying to dig themselves out of a hole, my first reaction is to try and help them, not push the dirt back on top of them.

Wisconsin, especially up north in the north western part of the state, has some really amazing roads. One of the things that makes them so great is that they’re all paved. Thanks to the Dairy industry, most of our farm roads are paved so that the dairy truck can make it to the farms every single day no matter the…

OK, hear me out, I honestly think that Elon Musk buying Twitter is the best thing that could have happened to Tesla. It’s my belief that Tesla has suffered from too much of Mr. Musk’s attention. Musk is not a good CEO. He’s a good idea guy, he’s a great lightning rod. But companies that have his attention tend to have…

Cancel culture=getting held accountable for shity things you’ve actually done and said. Remember folks, just because your dumb-ass buddies thought it was funny doesn’t mean it’s actually funny. Just like having a mic doesn’t mean you can podcast.

I used to get that all the time when I lived in Columbus, Ohio. I remember one afternoon, riding home from work when some asshole just honks and yells “FAG!!!” as he passes me. And at the time, after the initial shock passed all I could thing is, “is that really all you’ve got?”- I’m riding my bike in German Village,…

Once again, the actual answer is Subaru. Get an outback or a forester. More room but still easy to park. All the off road capabilities you probably need since you didn’t say you needed anything more than the boxy shape of the jeep. Better gas mileage, better at being a daily driving vehicle, can confirm the outback…

The story of the Whittington Brothers could be made with no embellishment whatsoever and still be utterly unbelievable. They’re actually decent drivers. They build a fairly decent team. They’re funding the whole thing with drug money and smuggling. They buy a race track specifically because the back straight is…

The front half of this thing is awesome and the 3/4 front profile isn’t bad- the porthole windows really don’t work though and the big scoops behind the door kinda suck- smooth them out and just let the back end be as smooth and confident as the back and holy crap, you’ve got a super cool car.

I’m just gonna say that adequate power is not an insult. It’s what you actually need. Would it be great to have more power that one specific time that you really notice your car dragging? Sure. But then you’d have to deal with the downsides- lower gas mileage among them.

But, and I say this as someone who’s got an outback with that same 2.5 engine, why? in my time owning the Outback, I have never thought, “wow, more horsepower is totally what I need right now.” Better racks than the garbage racks that come from the factory? Oh, I’ve wished for that. Apple car play? Oh I have wished…