Useful when you are driving in the winter and the temperture is dropping, 40 degrees good, 30 degrees bad, icy roads. It is a safety issue the car makers know they are inaccurate and alert you to icy conditions when the temp hits 38-40 degrees. If you have ever driven 700 miles north in a day you appreciate that.

Am I the only one who prefers the Navigator over the Escalade?

Phoenix is a terible, awful, horrific nightmare of a place. You wouldnt like it here, please don’t ever come and please make sure to tell everyone in California who can’t afford a house how terrible it is, they won’t like it either!

I am a 100% believer in climate change but I don’t see a goddamn thing anywhere that actually makes a plausible connection between this and climate change. Pheonix is universally acknowledged as the hottest major population center in the US. The fact of the matter is there’s a shitload more pavement, of different…

So climate change or to much damn Pavement in the desert. Phoniex’s rise in temp has more to do with all the concrete and pavement that’s there now vs 10, 15, 20 years ago.

Sometimes outside car thermometers are so inaccurate that they feel like random number generators. They’re basically the worst feature of the car, next to the car’s infotainment systems. That’s because [...] they’re actually thermistors.

Buttons/knobs. The steering wheel area is for things that need either constant use or emergency use during driving. Shift levers, audio volume, cruise control, horn, even wipers for a surprise puddle need to be at the ready and easy to hit.

Maryland is below the Mason-Dixon line, has Howard Co, Montgomery Co, Prince George’s Co, which are very progressive, have tons of professionals, and are rich counties. Northern Va is among the richest areas in the Nation. True the gridlock is crazy around the DMV (District, Maryland, VA), but it’s cheaper, and you…

I know where you’re coming from and you’re not wrong...but the reason they sell more of these damn things than any other vehicle is because of allowing them to appeal to everyone from the soccer Mom to working tradesman. Hence the six billion trim levels, configurations and engine choices. The actual differences are…

I feel exactly this way about hatchbacks turned into sedans. For instance, the Tata Indica tends to be a pretty decent looking hatchback.

With a car that large, you go full wagon or bust. The whole hunchback thing just looks wrong. Shorten it up, give it 2 doors and it might kind of look presentable. Right now it just looks like a crossover viewed in a bad aspect ratio.

(AC should always be off, and open windows used instead btw)

This is only true at city surface street speed, tooling along at 25-45 mph depending on the car in question it can be more efficient to do how you say but at 55+ it’s cheaper to run the ac vs increased drag from open windows.

You’re not fucking journalists, you’re now acting as activitist masquerading as a journalist.

When I convince my wife to move back to the southwest I’m buying a white F-150 for my daily. White always looks clean and stays cooler which is nice when it’s 115 out.

I mean honestly - which one of us hasn’t misguidedly stood by a friend who’s a total idiot douchebag at some point in our lives?

This man is doing the Lord’s work

You could just not let them eat or drink in the car. My Brother and I would have died a painful death if we had done any of that stuff in or to our parent’s cars. Of course that was 40+ years ago when you could beat your children in public.