$5k? That is a bit absurd. I think you can get the panel installed for about $500 and I live in Seattle where it is all but impossible to hire professional services like plumbers and electricians. And by think I meant to say CAN, because I am this friday when the installer is coming out to install the “wall connector.”

100% this. The Uber concept is an economists wet dream. Maximize the use of a depreciating asset, both the car and your time. It is pure efficiency and for the most part that is good. I like the idea that a person can decide if they want to take their expensive investment and make a few bucks on the side renting it out…

I believe $38k was cited recently as the average cost of a new car. Most of those premiums on the RAV4 I think are on the interior. The base car functions the same across the trim levels.

It’s the Sony model. Invest heavily in your own proprietary tech so if it hits, you get exclusive licensing. Sony has minidisc, memory-stick, SACD, etc. They don’t all hit but when they do, it’s big. I think Toyota has so much invested in hydrogen they are still waiting to see if it pays off. It’s a solid strategy, if…

Backside of the road to Hana in Maui, about 20 years ago in a rental convertible mustang. The road itself is no big deal but people struggle with the narrow roads and one lane bridges.

my first car was a 76 courier that had been parked in a friend’s garden for like... a decade. Loved that truck... after I had to bleed the brake lines of mud.

good idea but you end up with perverse incentives like buying old gas guzzlers just to trade in. somehow you have to close that loop.

is your question not the very core of the federalist papers? I didn’t read them but that has been my impression.

wow, I’m late to the party. I didn’t even realize Ram was a brand, I thought they still were Dodge Ram. Not my kind of pickup so I didn’t really pay much attention.

talk about a car ahead of its time. i thought they were the ugliest thing on the planet but boy were they predictive of the future.

I regret not owning one of these already. They seemed like they came out of nowhere. I am a Porsche guy all the way but god damned did they get the styling right. I owned a 96 Pontiac Grand Prix and was certain I would never buy another product from them.  This car made me change my mind.

to each their own but to me the proportions of the probe are considerably nicer to my eye.

My lord I feel old and I’m just in my early 40s but I grew up with all these terms and still use them. We need a comprehensive list of these gathered from the comments and republished.

I genuinely love your extremely relevant analogy from 50+ years ago. Growing up watching all the Hanna Barbara stuff in syndication, makes me envious of the embarrassment of riches in children’s programming available to kids today.

At 15 I learned to drive stick working as a groundskeeper’s assistant for my local municipal cemetery. Kubota taught me not only how to drive stick, but how to backup with a trailer, which is shockingly counter intuitive.

I thought we did impose a two week quarantine period did we not? I heard it only late yesterday though.

that’s nothing to sneeze at. there is roughly 2000 work hours in a year so let’s see... carry the one... $20 raise. Annually. :|

I have never been so offended by a single comment in my entire time on these boards. :)

not wrong but a head gasket on a 22r is practically a consumable. definitely a shade tree mechanic job at most.

i know boomer is the insult du jour but folks that have an infatuation with Back to the Future are X’ers or millenials. We’ll need to take responsibility for that one.