You can still buy a new base model Subaru that requires a physical key in the ignition to turn on. I get a few dozen rentals a year and more often than not, a car has been keyless the last ~4-5 years, but probably ~25% require a key in the ignition still. Still a bit surprising, since Buick is supposed to be…

Those breakdowns are very difficult to properly quantify, since you eventually end up making an educated guess if it is better to have the money flow to an American based company like Ford versus someone like Honda that builds here and how each of those suppliers (and who owns them) impacts various economies. Those…

The other day when I got out of the store after maybe 30-40 minutes inside my car said it was 119 here in Texas. Does not take long to become a big pressure cooker down there in Harlingen...

Looks like a nice little trick some company can use for their newly installed AI customer service. Make it all by text so they don’t have to deal with the challenges of faking a voice and then program it to be on a delay in hopes people will just pay themselves instead of waiting. Throw in a nice barrier like dealer…

Because they get the dual rush of watching an average drama and retweeting some generic statement on facebook that everyone in their neighborhood group will applaud.

The GOP is basically using it as an excuse for their current War on LGBTQ & US History Facts, so I think we already know the results. All they’re missing is a way to arrest more minorities, but the first 2 on that list are still going pretty strong so that may not be necessary. 

They’re saying that the Sound of Freedom is the gateway drug to becoming a MAGA conspiracy nut. I’m sure there will be at least one in the many people who saw this that later says it inspired them to shoot their spouse to reinforce that idea, while ignoring that most people just thought it was an okay action movie and…

The angle of the photo makes it look like his thumb is the lighter. 

We have pop star Barbie that drives a private jet. I say drive because my son prefers that the plane drives on the ground while basically everything else can fly.

-They’re really hard to get. Dealer mark ups around me for them ruined any level of incentive, assuming there even was one on a lot and it wasn’t a bait & switch by the dealer to push me into a pure ICE due to the backlog for PHEV orders.

Washington state is a living experiment for that this year. When I lived there, there was a carbon tax on the ballot 2018 I think, hoping the people would force the gov to pass it since the pols wouldn’t. The tax pretty massively failed, but in 2022 a tax was passed and went into effect this year. If a bunch of seats…

For anyone that wants a small, fun, semi-nice car with AWD and good cargo, Mazda3 is pretty much the only answer in America. Anything else becomes a compromise.

I believe the reviewer this posted made sure to mention that waited to get back to the USA before writing anything official because of how bad the car was

As long as their in R by their name, it really wouldn’t matter. We just had a president spend about 20% of their time in office at their own resorts and not a single GOP member cared. 

I expect Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Michigan are at the top of their list. Just a hunch...

He wouldn’t take major numbers, but it wouldn’t shock me if he nabs a few percentage points in places that Biden barely won like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Michigan. While he could potentially take a few R votes in those same places too, I think everyone is will be on edge about repeats of 2016 and…

That could also be called Deja Vu.

I know there are a lot of factors affecting this, but it’s still wild that the more F150s alone can get sold in America than those top 3 vehicles combined.

The new Chevy Trax update caught me off guard. The previous gen has been one of the ugliest cars available for a while and then the 2024 comes out and it’s almost attractive. That is a huge swing between generations.

Keeping a trademark can actually be very difficult, as it requires actively defending it to stop it from becoming part of the public domain. That’s why companies like Nintendo and Disney are so quick to sue anyone that could just maybe start infringing on them. Taco Johns backed off because they were very likely to…