My post comes from experience, not fanboyism. I’ve lived long enough and dealt with enough cars to know what’s up. I myself have only ever owned my 2001 Toyota Camry (I4, 4 speed auto with overdrive). I have however worked on, been around, driven, and sold many cars.

Yikes! A crack in the block is bad news. What did you end up with next?

Refer to my reply to Blu-Hue for an explanation of American car ownership.

Grandpa? I’m talking about the 90s-early 2000s.

Either you’re doing a lot of work on these cars or those Chrysler products are from the early 60s with slant 6s, or have Mitsubishi engines.

It probably had either GMs 3.1 liter V6 or the 3.8 liter V6. Both are terrible engines and I know from experience with a 1998 Buick Lesabre that GM is garbage. It was an extremely clean car that had been maintained like some sort of exotic, even going so far as to have rocker panel rust professionally repaired.…

If those Camrys are dying it means the previous jackasses thought maintenance was completely optional and that abusing the car was fine. My Camry fell victim to that before I bought it in 2004.

All used cars in the USA used to have around 50,000-60,000 miles on them because that is right around where a typical American car dies.

I agree that we should turn our lights on always, I know that I do. In most of Russia/former Soviet Union headlights MUST BE ON. This is a leftover from the Soviet Union but it is a great idea that significantly reduced crashes in places like Nizhny Novograd.

I turn my lights on day or night at all times. You should too. I do not have daytime running lights, I do this manually.

I’ve dealt with GMs over the years that friends and family have had, and I’ve learned that weekly repairs are just normal. I used to sell Chevys (which are all the same GM shit underneath as the Cadillacs) and man are those things criminally bad, they wouldn’t ever start on the lot (not caused by dead batteries, but…

I think you might be right. Thankfully the car was just being sold to a customer, however I had to have help from another salesperson to turn on the radio. I lost half of the commission because someone else had to present it. I hate these weird and needlessly complicated interior controls.

What absurdity have I spoken? Just because you don’t like what I say about GM doesn’t make it absurd.

If you drive a car like me, potholes are just a joke. Potholes are for mere mortals, my 2001 Toyota Camry is no mortal. Factory skid plates, on a global platform designed to take the intensity of Siberian winters, Sub-Saharan summers, and everything in between. Whether you’re a soccer mom in the suburbs or a rebel…

If I could recommend your post more than once I would.

The F150 Platinum is a thoroughly nice truck, but it is quite large. The F150 is definitely not for urban use.

From mainline cars, I only ask what I wrote above, I appreciate nice things like plush seats and automatics though. From a luxury car however, I demand things like plush seats and plush suspensions. The Lincoln Town Car is the best modern interpretation of this.

I tried the instruction manual, it told me how to replace the radio but not much to use it. I think Mazda assumes everyone can work the weird center console knob thing.

Here’s a song for you to listen to instead if Sugar Ray isn’t your speed (although they’re one of my favorites):

Nothing about what you said sounds bad. A car that is reliable, easy to fix, safe, easy to drive, and somewhat comfortable is all you need. To demand more from anything but luxury cars is just being spoiled.