Mattock

1st Gear: Taking out a car loan is frequently necessary for people to be able to afford a car, but it’s also often absolutely critical to building credit.

“There’s a reason why gentlemen of a certain age still get nervous when a car approaches 100k miles.”

From my experience riding a Meriden Triumph, I can say that, as terrible as they were at mass producing modern and/or reliable vehicles back in the day, the British are great at keeping us supplied with better-made spares for their old death traps, and for reasonable money. But maybe the smart idea is to buy up all…

I think a lot of grumpy old people don’t realize how few variables it takes to significantly increase the risk of reversing. In your case, a sufficiently large tree and the slope of your yard, which are 2 variables you can’t easily control.

It’s almost like we are living in a Gilded Age and reaching pre-Great Depression wealth distribution....

The secret is that automakers don’t give a shit *what* the standards are as long as they’re predictable and applied across the board. If every manufacturer needs to hit a higher standard, then prices will increase for all of those vehicles and no manufacturer will be at a disadvantage to everyone else.

Starred for diesel electric.

Heh, in my first apartment I could only make calls while standing at the living room window holding my arm up to the roof. 

You can lead a David to Toyota, but you can’t make him drink (the easily serviceable fluids).

<Wisconsin has almost no gravel thanks to the dairy industry needing it’s daily milk truck runs...>

But what is missing from the equation, and there was an opportunity for during the Verona road project, is light rail along the major corridors - say from Epic, to Camp Randall, Monona Terrace or nearby, along East Wash to the Airport, and out to say Sun Prairie.  Imagine how many cars would be off the Beltline vs it…

Huh, i just realized that there might be another huge reason to make Hummer the first rollout of EVs instead of just calling them Chevys.

I ride motorcycles. A lot. 

uhhh... 

*Marty Stouffer voice* 
Here we see a full grown Georgia Trampoline. Though having been domesticated for decades, there is still a wild, feral instinct that resides within these creatures. Once the great eastern wind blows, the trampoline cannot resist it’s primal urges and takes flight.

Neutral: Live in the South, there are more sure signs of Spring than pea shoots. You know it is Spring when the migration of trampolines occurs.

There are only ~210M adults in the United States and even if they all could ride an ebike, wanted to ride an ebike, and had a place to actually store one, the short to mid term manufacturing capacity sets a significantly lower ceiling on the total cost of this.

Oh sir, I totally agree. I am of that “certain age” now and back in the day you NEVER gave a used car with anything approaching 100,000 miles a second look. Now days..phhht, big deal! I recently bought an 03 VW beetle with 156k, give or take, on the clock. Tight, maybe 1\2 quart of oil between 7,000 mile oil changes.…