I’ll expand on that a bit. I live in CA, which people love to call the Nanny State and such things, and while we have biennial emission inspections - we do not have any type of safety inspection. Worse that that, there is ZERO structural inspection of rebuilt total loss wrecks. Those get a VIN verification (making…

That’d be nice, but the systems are unfortunately not linked in any way and nobody wants to spend money to make it happen. So we end up with people with registrations that expired over two years ago with up to date inspection stickers and vice versa.

I appreciate your picture from MA.  People from out of state love to whine, but our annual inspection system is pretty good here.  Cheap, free to get re-inspected after a failure, you can get repairs done anywhere else so it isn’t a cash grab for garages, well regulated, etc.  In over 25 years of driving (and getting…

There needs to be an automobile driver bill of rights that stops vehicle manufacturers from monetizing the drivers’ information when no permission was given in the first place—especially with them spying on drivers and relaying it to insurance companies.

Laws against left lane camping need some real teeth. We hear about the occasional story of someone getting pulled over for going the speed limit in the left lane, but they’re rare enough the general public often has no idea they exist. There’s no reason, on a 3 lane highway, for anyone to have to be in the left lane…

You know what takes up less space? A column shifter. I agree, I dislike the buttons in the current Tahoe/Suburban, but not nearly as much as I hate audi’s shifter.

But they still take up room on the console where a shifter like this doesn’t even need to be. Put it on the dash like the dodges at least. I just hate console shifters in general though. I’d rather have a column shifter and more space for junk in the console 😄

“ the smallest truck money can buy,”

Basically, a lot of times it’s easier to tell someone something is ‘illegal’ or ‘against policy’ rather than going through an argument about why you are or aren’t going to do something.

Of course it’s illegal and dangerous. It’s obvious you’ve never confronted Angry Dad.

<turn on dome light for 5 seconds>

$500 monthly payment is a $25,000 loan at 5 year with 7% interest rate...

The American populace spending on debt has been a hallmark feature of how everyone seems so “rich” that they can’t afford. People should probably be saving 20% of their income regardless of how shitty their income is... I get it’s hard, but that’s the hard truth of what you can actually afford on any income if you…

It’s hard to put a number on it...

Vance is following in Mike Pence’s footsteps. He sold his soul for his political career. Sadly, he learned nothing from what happened to Pence but I can guarantee that The Orange Menace will sell him down the river if he becomes even a slight inconvenience to him. 

If I were an alien sitting above the Earth in my spaceship, observing the American right shredding the Constitution and marching us towards a dictatorship, I would want to see their version of “The Night of the Long Knives”, where schmucks like Musk will get their comeuppance. Unfortunately, I live here and would be…

If I thought he meant car owners... then he’d still be a reprehensible scumbag that nobody in their right mind ought to vote for, but at least it’d be a policy for the ordinary American. However, he’s going to be subsidizing dealers and manufacturers, to inflate corporate profits while costs will be passed on to…

Let me rush out and buy a car from this piece of shit.

It looks a hell of a lot better than the Mach-E, so that’s a start. 

That was done with the Hummer H3T.