Ironically this is almost a legitimate reason for you to buy another jeep. You need to find a parts Jeep that can donate the entire interior and the exterior parts you need.  Something with a trashed engine or trans, or a rotted out body with a good interior.

Maybe in 10 years when us commoners have a used Tyacan bought third hand, but if I had brand new Taycan Turbo XYZ money I wouldn’t need to try and get it to go 200+ miles. I’m flying first class if I need to go any real distance, or I take the “Wife’s” (or husband’s) Cayenne super turbo LMN since it has more room for…

Well to be fair the boomers navigated those too, from different points in their lives but financial hardship is not really that unique. The previous generation had the great depression and/or WWII to contend with. Millenials started entering the job market around the housing crash, and are really feeling the crunch of…

The part that I think is missing here is that these are first time owners that keep cars for 15+ years. Which means people who buy cars with the mentality of “running them into the ground”.

Don’t worry, in 30 years, Millenials will be the ones blaming the shiftless yutes for suffering the consequences of the Millenials’ short-sighted decisions.

So true!  If I saw one more profile that stated they “like hanging out with friends and family” and “enjoy new experiences” I was going to gag. 95% of the people on there were amorphous personalities in pretty wrappers, just like the modern automotive landscape. And this was on the web site that prides itself in…

For a diesel engine 180 hp out of 2.0l isn’t bad, it’s the 290 lb-ft of torque that’s kind of sad for something with twin turbos on it. For instance the Cummins RAM makes 400 hp from 6.7l which seems sad when you can get over 700 from their slightly smaller HEMIs. However the Cummins makes 1000 lb-ft of torque.

Just like your phone, the battery has about 55% of it’s original capacity. The battery still works but my max range has gone from about 90 miles to about 55.

Sure it could. If you took all the high mileage trips and put them on rental cars your normal car should last longer. So lets say it takes you 15 years to get to 150K miles where you’d start looking at a new car vice 10 years. That’s five years of car payments you can save, minus the rental car fee, which might be a…

The rear windows on early 60s Chryslers did an interesting little dance partly because there was no b-pillar so they rotate into and out of the window gasket, but also for the reasons you cited as far as rolling down completely.

That's my problem with the Kia\Haundai EVs, only available in specific markets. My LEAF hasn't held up well, and their support has been non-existent, so no more Nissan's for me. Which means I'm likely looking for a used Bolt on a year or two.

I’m legitimately shopping a lot of 2015-2019 vehicles right now and it’s sad to say the dashboard technology is unduly swaying my decision.

This amuses me to no end any more. I stopped at a Nissan dealer to use the DC charger on my Leaf one day as I was running a bunch of errands but the unit was having issues. The tech that came out to reset it commented that it’s mostly some guy in a Tesla that uses it, which I found funny. You spent at least $40k (this…

A small apartment especially by yourself definitely has fewer uses. The conveniences are minor usually but real. I have smart switches that let me program lights to operate at dusk and dawn or any time or schedule I need, or via voice command when your hands are full. Smart speakers operate as a home intercom, let me…

Best upgrade to my 05 Magnum was the Android Auto (it does Apple too) head unit and a backup camera. It’s not a cheap upgrade, and not as clean as a factory setup, but far cheaper than a new car and with the right adapters I still have steering wheel controls and most of the dashboard integration still works.

Well if we’re being pissy technically about 3 million more people voted against libertarian capitalism than voted for it. The electoral college system fixed it for you, which is how a representative democracy works.

Why not? It’s built to be a performance car that will run lap times as long as you can keep charge in the batteries, there has to be a tradeoff. The Teslas have struggled to maintain that kind of performance because they weren’t built as a performance car first and foremost. The fact the cost of that performance is…

I would also add that cost is another factor. The cost of the extra hardware and software isn’t going to be small. It’s easier to sell that to a business that will be making money off the vehicle all day vice as a $15,000 option package on a Toyota car or SUV.

That’s more my bad examples than anything. Better ones would be the Corvette, or a Shelby Mustang, the “why buy a 911, my Z06 was $50,000 less and is [insert performance metric here]” argument.
My point being that while I’ve never driven a Porsche, the almost universal praise is that they do everything well while still…

All bench racing is just a group of people trying to one-up or disparage other people for their own self-worth or otherwise. Do you think a 911 owner cares that a Hellcat makes more power or the Miata gets better mileage, other similar pointless paper comparisons. That’s just the crap us poor folk like to do so we…