I saw this in the main page today and I was all like,

Whaaaa? A new Torch article on here?

And then I saw the date - Jalop recycles a 4 and a half year old article. Womp womp.

The CR article is “best hybrid cars under $35k”, I. E. specifically not trucks.

Interesting, there’s a few roads on there I hadn’t heard about yet!

You could get yourself a very nice, low mile CPO TourX Essence wagon for that money with some left over. Skip the sunroof, get everything else. A fun, comfortable AWD family hauler that has a ton of space, drives like the german car it is, looks pretty great in a sea of me-too SUVs, especially when you get the…

Considering the 2023 Frontier King Cab with the standard 310 hp V6 starts around $29k USD and the Mexican market single cab 2.5 4 cylinder gas NP300 (with a truck bed and A/C) starts at around $27k USD there’s not much reason for Nissan to sell the smaller truck here.

For real. One of my clients has 119 cars (that I know of), and I have spent literally an entire 10 hour day pumping up tires with a large shop compressor and charging batteries using multiple chargers at once, and not gotten to all of them. Another client only has 22 cars, and doing 10 oil changes in a day involves…

A Tesla has (even more) production delays?

Clear air turbulence can be crazy, I was on a plane years ago (with seatbelt on, thankfully) when this happened. The drinks cart hit the ceiling, as did several unbelted people. I always use a seatbelt when seated now.

The reason why is that european tow ratings typically use a mere 5% tongue weight (vs. US 10%-15%) which you can get away with if you strictly keep towing speeds down to ~60 mph or less. Above that, the faster you go the more critical 10% or more tongue weight is, to avoid lethal trailer tail wag that can flip the…

I have an ‘18, bought new. The LTG is a popular corporate motor in lots of volume cars, no worries there. The trans is an Aisin shared with Camrys and many other cars.

But people have had issues and delays getting the fabric sunroof sunshades replaced, and some people have had to wait several weeks for replacement…

I too bought a ‘18 TourX new, and I too am considering a diesel Cayenne for the tow capacity, comfort, cargo space and mileage. Let us know how yours does.

Me too. And while that’s always a concern, I don’t think the level of under-reporting of car break ins here has changed significantly from last year to this year. The people who won’t bother to report it, didn’t then and won’t now and the people who do take the time to report stuff will still do it.

Yup, exactly. Sure seems like the SFPD waited to do something about it until after the Republicans engineered Boudin’s recall.

Read the article.

Now that they got rid of Chesa Boudin, the SFPD is more interested in arresting criminals. Auto break ins have dropped by 50% in the last 3 months.

You’d be wrong. SF car break ins have dropped by 50% in the last 3 months.

San Francisco car break ins have dropped by 50% over the last three months.

After a decade of cars and trucks crashing into that thing, it was redesigned and rebuilt last year. Now only a few vehicles crash into the new ones, apparently.

Right? Like, was that car his, or what?

Exactly.