For a lot of people, Just having A PRICE is a feature. Haggling sucks. It just does. It adds anxiety and awfulness to a process that does not need it. And it justifies the need for car salesmen. Which are 100% unnecessary. Because we have the internet, we’ve already done the research.

“Priuses suck.”

Honestly, most of the dumbest stuff I’ve ever heard about cars comes from enthusiasts and is best summed up as “there’s only one way to enjoy cars, and that’s my way.”

First gear tells me that really, the trick with electric is just getting over that hump or jumping into the pool or whatever metaphor you want to use- once you’re in, learning the new system is not difficult.

To be fair, this is almost exactly what I did for my last car purchase- Did everything online (it was during covid), just had to come into the dealershit to do the closing.

To be fair, that has probably happened multiple times with dealerships. And to folks who are mentally impaired, elderly folks with dementia, the list goes on.

OK, I have the perfect solution to the robocab problem: hear me out- First, you buy or rent a centralized location where your autonomous cabs can go for repairs and things like that. Then, you put the remote drivers IN the robocabs so they are available no matter what happens, even if there are connectivity…

Nah, fuck that guy.

To be fair, they were obtained by looting the people of Syria for decades so it all works out. And “But this classic ferarri deserves better?” Then Ferarri shouldn’t have sold it to Assad.

counterpoint: jeep enthusiasm does not translate into car enthusiasm. It either translates into more jeep enthusiasm or a hardcore enthusiasm for reliability.

Since the question is which brand is most beloved, I’m gonna go with Subaru.

I’m sure that none of these will end up hermetically sealed into the collections of autocrats. I’m sure every single one of these will end up being used to give their owners the purest driving experience possible and in 5 years, you’ll see them all with tens of thousands of track miles on them, scuffed and scratched…

Goodson claimed she brought the gun for her own protection, which is a reasonable thought to have when traveling to Australia since every bit of wildlife there seems intent on killing you. Including the kangaroos.

I grew up in the 70s, pre emissions controls, back when smog and acid rain were serious problems, back when just tossing garbage out of your car on the side of the road was a thing, back when most natural water (lakes, streams, etc) was either full of pollutants or trash or both, I got to see my country see this was a…

Jesus, lighten up francis.

As a gen x who has anxiety and depression and all the things, we were the first ones to say, this seems like a problem (while our boomer parents continued to say “that’s not a thing”). We were the generation that asked “Why are we like this” rather than the typical boomer refrain of “ohmygod…

No. That’s not it at all. If it becomes as easy to find a place to recharge that’s just off the freeway like every single gas station on I-65, people will buy electrics. Right now, you need an app and a map to find charging infrastructure that’s usually in a creepy ass parking lot several miles off the freeway.

All of the best drivers were also the recipients of dominant cars. We’ve all see how much Verstappen’s driving abilities are worth when his car is no longer head and shoulders above the rest- suddenly, he’s a good driver but quite beatable and mostly a raging asshole.

I’ve got a friend who LOVES his flex, to the point that he’s put up with 2 blown engines to keep the thing running. Apparently that v-6 is not the most solid engine in the world but as a vehicle for hauling high-school aged kids and a family full of mountain bikers, it’s pretty close to ideal.

I was thinking about this as I saw the glowing review for the new Passport, yet another SUV with offroad capabilities no one will ever use. We have gotten so completely over the top with our vehicles. And I can honestly count myself in that mix even though I just drive an Outback, as honestly, I will never truly use…

It’s an outrage! there is nothing on earth that improves the great outdoors like the clouds of diesel exhaust pouring from a slow moving, stuck in traffic RV as it ponderously blocks traffic and slowly crawls ahead in an endless ant-column of vehicles all wanting to see the glory of our state and national park system.