PA “repair towing” plates can be put on any business-owned vehicle (even if used for personal use of the owner or the owner’s family) and swapped between those vehicles without individually registering them.

Interesting, thanks for the info!

For people interested in why there are so many low bridges around the NYC/CT area parkways:

Moses was definitely a racist, there’s plenty of evidence of that. And he did make those bridges extra low, even moreso than the earlier parkways he copied. And he knew and was quoted that laws could be changed easily, but bridges were expensive and difficult to rebuild once built.

You don’t need “multiple languages” on buttons. That’s what symbols and colors are for.

+/- for volume
red-blue for hot/cold
the standard symbol for “power” for on-off

Nice hardware and size, shame about the interior and (lack of) information in front of the driver, where it belongs. Also, fuck not having touch bullshit and not physical controls for common, important things like radio volume and HVAC.

Kia/Hyundai decided in 2010 to stop installing immobilizer chips in their low trim level cars that use physical keys. They reversed that decision sometime around 2021/2022.

Unfortunately if you want to do this stuff in places with restrictive residential zoning, you really need to do it inside a building. Even if it’s a basic steel building, it’s got a roof and walls and a door to close and lock to keep from the all the prying eyes in the sky (helicopters, commercial satellite photograph…

Been dailying a 2019 Bolt EV for 4 years now. $28k new.

Perhaps, but Ford has more than 3,000 dealers in the US, and Ford sold 5,407 Mach -E’s in 1Q 2023 total, which comes out to an average of a little less than two Mach E’s per dealership over a 3 month time period, or ~ 7 per year. Considering the size of most Ford dealerships and the number of vehicles they sell,…

“Buyers are not willing to compromise”

*You’re* not willing to “compromise”. You’re not “Buyers”.

I hate to break it to you, but the Model Y is the top selling car in the US and in the world at this point. US - 1Q 2023 - 85,000+, outselling the next 3 most popular cars - the Rav4, the Nissan Rogue and the Honda CRV,…

:shrug:
They know they won’t sell a bunch of them, and that the people who want more will buy something else. I don’t think a cheaper option is a *bad* thing, for the people who can live with that range and power.

4th gear - fair competition depends on a level playing field, not something China is know for with its’ government sanctioned and government forced manufacturing partnerships resulting in rampant IP theft, massive and total currency manipulation, enormous market manipulation by government and government owned and…

This is just how it goes when Republicans have the power to obstruct nominations; they aren’t capable of doing the work of governing and they actively don’t want government to function, which is why Trump never nominated anyone to the post, especially anyone competent.

When one party believes government is the…

Ex dealer service manager here. Dealers taking payouts to give up their franchises is a real thing - Capitol Cadillac (a long running standalone Caddy dealer in the Maryland DC suburbs) did that a few years ago rather than spend the money to handle EVs.

And the old dealer model of high service labor/parts margins is…

That doesn’t mean much, if anything - Idaho is practically a rounding error when it comes to new car sales compared to California, the #1 new car market in the US.

Yeah, this winter I-80 was closed a lot, but from ‘18 to ‘22 I did a fair bit of of driving in the snow on that highway, 80 miles or so at a time. AWD wasn’t a must when I was new car shopping for a spacious highway car in 2018 to replace my beloved but noisy and uncomfortable ‘13 Fit Sport, but all the TourXs came…

These right wing companies just can’t win, they will never be pure enough for these hard right wackos and their followers without alienating a much larger swath of the general public. Now that the loudest hard right wackos are fully making things up to get outraged about for social clout, it’ll be interesting to see…

As a Californian who semi-regularly drives I-80 through the Sierras in winter - and over the Grapevine and other mountain West mountain passes, I *really* appreciate the AWD in my TourX. It’s saved me from getting out and chaining up in a blizzard at least two dozen times since I bought the car.

That yellow CT5V blackwing is absolutely tits. I know what I’m buying if I ever hit the lottery.