Doug, also being from PA, I cannot agree enough that it is a racket. The “emissions” test is even more of a joke, they plug the state mandated machine into an OBDII port (post 95 car, of course) and if there are no codes AND the car has been operated X amount of hours, it passes. The safety inspection? it found…

V90 Polestar? yeah V90 Polestar

for years my wife and I rented a home in a fantastic school district for far less than we could afford to pay for a home in that area. (our rent was 2K , while the home were valued from 350-400K, so a mortgage would be 3-4K for month depending on how it’s structured) Our kids got a great education through High School.…

I saw a 2nd gen one in traffic this morning, the bumpers were color matched, the headlights were fogged over streamlined ones , but wheels were steelies

see early Saturns and some of the European manufacturers

in college in 1984, I had a 76 Plymouth Swinger with same engine transmission combo, was useable, if underpowered. Given that the Aspen weighs more, with 2 more years of smog controls, this will be borderline abysmal performance

If you want one, it’s great, if you don’t, then its CP

The “Kirkland” brand roller bags from Costco, cheaper than some, better made than most, built in TSA liquids bag, sturdy and the handle doesn’t feel like it’s going to break

The “Kirkland” brand roller bags from Costco, cheaper than some, better made than most, built in TSA liquids bag,…

want ridiculous? head over to gowesty.com and see what they want for 20+ yr old Westfalia campers on the synchro chassis

10K is CP for that truck, though 10K for the Herbie, depending on what it’s got might be NP

if it meets the specs necessary , then why not? of course I have 2 cars that require synthetic, and that runs me 23 a gallon for m1 at wally world

How fast are the replacement drives? similar in speed to the Mac OEM drives? better?

Ding! Right there, we were coming back from Florida a few years ago and somewhere in SC wife found a hotel deal on hotwire, problem was , the 3 star hotel had drug deals actively going on in the parking lot when we pulled in, so we bailed. The hotwire rep (obviously overseas and working from a script) said “ And you…

it wasn’t fixed at first, how many seasons was it till Capt Slow won a competition? TG:UK used a very specific formula of three middle/older aged white men dicking around with cars combined with cinematic level cinematography (take a look at some of the car reviews from S5-8). This morphed in the states to 3…

he’s not Dr Evil, he’s Tony Stark

or go to CarMax and let them buy it, that way you’re out of the picture and with fewer hassles

only if I owned a DMC12 time machine to go with it and I was doing a museum type set in my lottery winning cost garage, CP otherwise

Hulu doesn’t have HGTV or some of the other Sling offerings

None of these options includes BBC-America or just the BBC, which as an adult geek in the states is a must have. We ditched cable and now beg friends to let us come over and watch Dr Who, Orphan Black, etc. If Sling offered it, I’d be throwing money at them right now. As it is, we do Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu