I started doing a similar thing with the requirement to get an annual inspection, on a fucking travel trailer, in my state. I would waste a Saturday morning, do a 50 mile round trip to the RV dealer, who had official inspection mechanics, then spend an hour of shop time while they checked tail lights, the breakaway…

Yeah, people like to say you can get a full-size for $30k, but that is a bare-bones work truck that you wouldn’t want to use for anything but actual work. At the same time, they complain that mid-size trucks cost as much as full-size.

You are right no car needs a V8, they need a V12

That’s because most PHEVs have ridiculously stupid 20 miles or below electric range. So most people don’t even bother charging them and use them as regular hybrids. Electric range of a PHEV should be at minimum the average commute, so 37 miles. But preferably at least 50 miles and ideally 100.

Don’t the Bronco four cylinder engine have similar power and higher torque than Jeep’s V6?

You know they are desperate when they are citing yet to be released models as advantages.

“Prominently featured on the dash were a row of hand buttons for locking the front or rear differentials, or engage Trail Turn Assist”

Wait… so in California, if you have a car, even a non-functional car, that you are not driving and which just sits in your garage and never moves—they want you to register it? A car which is basically a very large doorstop? What happens if you just, you know, don’t?

Correct headline: idling in traffic with your windows down in developing countries with minimal pollution controls increases your exposure to pollution (which may or may not be a meaningful increase that has health outcomes because we didn’t test that).

David says “I find myself in a similar spot, Matthew, in that recent life events have driven me to seek, in some ways, a hard-reset.”

Eh.  Lots of us don’t mind sticks in traffic.  I prefer their crawl speeds and one-foot driving over autos a lot of the time.  

I had to look at this WAY too long before I realized this wasn’t a photo of an elephant with an ankle monitor...

that seems annoying as hell to try and get shit from the bed on any vehicle that doesn’t have access from the cab to the bed. truck buyers complain enough that the sides of truck beds are too high without the “sail”/buttress

That ‘72 SM is pure sex on wheels.

we sell a decent enough number of them. its not a sales leader by any stretch, kind of a niche market vehicle, but it sells better than the compass and renegade do at my store, by quite a margin. 

What they’re actually used for is revenue enforcement of registration fees, and for hassling minorities. Unless the person who stole your car is just joyriding, they’re not going to get caught by a scanner.

That’s a nice story, but it doesn’t justify turning the license plate scanner on in any non-AMBER alert scenario. Also, there is no reason to believe attentive cops wouldn’t have spotted the car with a traditional scannerless APB.

Defund License Plate Scanners.

My same thoughts on the coils. This guy is a cheap bastard twice, once with the swap and now expecting me to pay his price premium AND replace them.

Hot take: the top-mounted headlights look stupid and should be removed