I’ll nominate the Buick Cascada. It picked up where the Sebring left off. Which...why? Why do these soft, shitty near-luxury convertibles need to continue to exist? Is it execs that remember coke-fueled weekends in South Beach? Did they get their first lay in the front seat of a Chrysler LeBaron? It’s gotta just be…
It’s better than it’s sibling.
One that stands out, taking my grandma home from dialysis. It started snowing hard on the way home. We were approaching a slightly downhill intersection where I needed to make a right. I braked as gently as I could, but there was ice under the snow and we broke traction in my Taurus station wagon. The rear end swung…
This is why I won’t drive late or tired anymore. I hit my 30s and my body just decided it could fall asleep at the drop of a hat (I nodded off at my desk yesterday). Too many close calls and hitting the rumble strips after 9pm.
My van needs some love. I treat my Grand Caravan like the cheap cargo-and-people-hauling workhorse that it is, which means that the interior has that patina that only comes from being owned by a perpetually-frazzled father - so many crumbs, crumpled receipts, mystery stains, screws from something I was working on, all…
The way to fix dealerships is for the manufacturers to have greater oversight of the dealers. Markup caps, incentivizing customer satisfaction scores, and better training would go a long way.
What sucks that most people have accepted that dealerships are terrible and it’s just part of buying a car. Kia/Hyundai…
More or less. The idea of exploring alternate Earths is certainly not a new one . Season 2 of Out of Place focuses on an alternative Earth where the Trinity test opened a sort of dimensional gateway that allows researchers to send people to these various alternatives (the “EXTANT Teams”). I won’t give away the true…
There’s an audiodrama podcast called Out of Place, which explores the idea of alternative history from the viewpoint of a main character working in an archive. The first season has Andrew Moss being delivered artifacts from a mysterious benefactor that appear to come from alternative timelines - a broken bust of…
Storm prep is inconvenient. Even down here in Ohio, people were griping because the storm was going to mess with holiday plans. You should have heard what folks were saying when businesses started closing and church services were cancelled. Instead of spending time insulating pipes, servicing vehicles and preparing…
The Weather Channel sucks. After NBC bought them, they started filling their programing hours with reality TV shlock and sensationalizing weather reporting with their own made-up BS, like “Tor-Con Values” and naming winter storms. Most of that stuff happened after they became their own entity owned by “The Weather…
The average person knows jack-shit about weather. Even if you are smart and think you do, no you do not.
I worked with a person who’d grown up going to school in Rochester, NY. She was dumfounded that we (SE Ohio) closed schools for 2 inches of snow. According to her, it took 6+ inches for even a delay, due to the efficiency of NYDOT plows.
My low point is on-going, although all things considered it could be worse. My Grand Caravan needed all the roller rockers replaced (doing so myself - and successfully - was actually my “high” of the year) as well as a HVAC blower. It’s still in desperate need of struts, sway bar end links, a new trans filter, and…
I think the Airflow looks good, too. I think the Ioniq 5 is...neat, but I dunno. I’m 38 and my politics are...well, center-average but probably leaning left.
My point is, the Ioniq is neat, but if you can’t understand who would buy the Airflow over it, you don’t understand who’s buying cars right now.
Do you know how old a boomer is? Late 50s into their 60s. Older GenXers are in their early 50s.
Based on readily available data, that’s who’s buying the majority of all cars, not just Dodge/Chrysler.
In 2020, the average age of a Kia buyer was 44.5.
The average age of a Dodge buyer? 44.1
Chrysler wasn’t too far off, at…
The Ioniq 5 looks a decade newer; by the time Chrysler’s first EV is on the road, it’ll be three years old. Who will be waiting for the Airflow?
The old saying, “cutting your nose off to spite your face” comes to mind.
Kombucha-chugging Karens in yoga pants and Skoal-rubbing Darryls in MAGA hats both drive like asshats because they think everyone around them is stupid.
Let’s get this out of the way real quick: this is a true case of correlation not equaling causation.
Not getting the vaccine does NOT cause you to have a higher chance of having a car accident.
However, the CORRELATION is certainly there. Not getting the vaccine means that you are more likely to be a person who takes…
Some family trees are assholes all the way down.
