It’s not just about snow. Winter tires perform better below 45 degrees. At any rate, the snow tires may be $500 up front, but they are prolonging the life of your all-seasons/summers. The difference in cost is minimal over the life of both sets of tires.

At least you can just store them for 5 years and slip em on when needed

Can’t vote:

I kept trying to justify the price, and I can’t. Someone with the budget to buy and maintain this car should put that money towards something newer and less tinkered with. Someone with a $15k budget shouldn’t go anywhere near this car. No dice.

Ford F250s, Suburbans, semi trucks. All are Very Heavy Vehicles.

The only equitable solution is to increase (or for some states, implement) registration fees by vehicle weight. And it shouldn’t just be EVs. It is insane how many 6,000 lb trucks are being driven willy nilly around for no reason other than people want the equivalent of the new 60s luxo-barges. Every morning at my…

How many EVs actually weigh 5000 lbs?

If he has, he hasn’t told me about it! He should be back next week

#1 answer: ad blockers

I’m genuinely torn about how I feel about this story. I love dogs, stealing dogs is fucked up, but buying designer dogs for thousands of dollars is feeding into the system that creates more demand for dogs that are barely hanging onto life. Pugs, frenchies, other designer Brachycephalic dog breeds are literally just…

Pick any generation - it really doesn’t matter.

Outsize of the Z, anything Nissan makes. But let’s go Versa.

I’ll probably catch some heat for this, but the new Accord looks like the “boring car” used in a 90's car commercial where the world is filled with the same grey non-descript car and then the red, exciting car appears and stands out against the sea of mediocrity.

The early 80's Charger 2.2:

And when they get caught it’s going to be soo much worse for them. It goes from a moving violation to filing a false police report, obstruction of justice, likely attempted insurance fraud, all manner of charges.

About an hour after the crash, the owner of the vehicle called 911 to report that the car had been stolen sometime in the early morning hours. The owner’s residence was approximately five miles away from the crash scene.

$45000 for 2 cars? Why? In this market, that’ll get you 2 high mileage beaters. Used car prices are still high, and most aren’t worth the asking price. So IMO, it makes a lot more sense to buy new for now than to buy used.

Ex Chevy dealer tech from back then. I PDI’d some of these when new, and they were shitty cars even back then. And they haven’t improved any 28 years later. Terrible, cheap, hard, poorly fitted plastic interiors, mushy seats, wheezy engines, sloppy handling and vague brakes. And as noted, not a lot of standard content…

My parents (and then my sister) had a 1998 Lumina just like this, but in red. And while the MSRP (according to KBB) was $18,785 I think they got it for something like $15k. Size-wise this was a lot of car for the money, but it was pretty bare bones. In another reminder of how far cars have come from even then, $15k is…

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