What SPF sunscreen does Lincoln recommend for that paint? I can’t find the owner’s manual online.

the biggest reason i’d go with Hornet over Tonale is i don’t have a way to plug a car in to charge at home.

i don’t see how you can claim that only rich people were paying over $1k a month in 2011 and low income people are now. i guess the question is, what percentage of loans with $1k or more payments are subprime? if that percentage is high or at least higher than in 2011 then i can see cause for alarm.

i guess that’s it? jalopnik has been predicting a car loan default meltdown like the 2008 home loan one for years now. the sky hasn’t fallen and i’m kind of tired of hearing about it. the only real difference i see between now and 2011 is a lot more pending layoffs. longer loan terms mean people are at greater risk of…

my impreza is a 2020 hatchback with 150hp and a CVT. i love the way it handles but pulling out into traffic from parking lots in L.A. with its huge dips suck. i have to pull out super slowly so i don’t scrape and then the pig just won’t accelerate. with the traffic in this city there’s never a big enough gap so i have…

this blog implies that there were more people paying at least a grand a month in car payments in 2011. it begs questions. what’s the story there? i don’t remember hearing about a default crisis in the following years. how is what’s going on now significantly worse or riskier than what was going on 11 years ago when…

Yeah that’s the best option for the scenario I laid out, Subaru has the least SUVish SUVs on the market. My Impreza is so weak, I kind of hate it so I wouldn’t buy a Crosstrek and I assume the Forester is weak too. The turbo Outback has 260 horses and is still $10k cheaper than the Audi. But if my best option is going…

I know the Crown is intentionally harder to categorize, and I hope I’m not being pedantic. But it’s just not a lifted sedan. According to the google its ground clearance is only .1 inch higher than the Camry. It’s a taller sedan, but it’s not lifted. I freely admit that I’m mostly grumpy about it because sedans scrape…

yeah in the northeastern US it’s like the Land Cruiser replaced the Grand Wagoneer around 1990.

I totally agree with your 4Runner v Land Cruiser bit, but I think i understand the focus on the Crown. On paper, a Camry that’s easier to get in and out of and see out of is a no-brainer money printing device. I really think Toyota sees this as a way to make up for the drop in sedan sales for people that don’t want…

i was in Dallas during that ice and snow storm a couple of years ago where the grid went down and all that. almost nobody there knows how to drive on that stuff anyway, including me, but i got around in my Imprezza just fine. but i saw a guy trying to get his Mustang GT through an intersection and it was just painful…

well, obviously you should have gone with the 5th Avenue.

That last count means Consumer Acceptance allegedly prevented dealers from misrepresenting finance-and-insure products as mandatory...

A cult bought a bunch of houses in Garland, TX believing that God would appear in a flying saucer on March 31st, 1998 and broadcast a message of love on TV. People were afraid that it was a suicide cult, but when Baby Buddhajesus didn’t show up, the cult sold the houses and left town. Nobody knows where the leader…

The US government won’t let Americans buy Huawei cell phones. It really doesn’t matter what Xi does or whether it’s a bad idea to buy a Chinese EV. We won’t have the option.

i got in a ladies only car by mistake in Mexico City. when i went over to the regular cars a crowd of men charged into an already full car like a massive soccer riot game of red rover. i got tuberculosis on that trip and i’d bet my pinky toe it was on that metro ride. but anyway, i don’t think doing away with the pink…

this morning i got an email from SWA saying they have processed a refund for my flight that got canceled. i hope they will at least help me with the hotel room i had to pay for.

Austerity has only ever been popular among Communists In Theory and the holier-than-thou. And there’s a lot of overlap there. There are loopholes that could be closed and exploits that could be patched to artificially make bigger and heavier even more expensive, but I don’t see that happening without the horsemen…

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the wording in the blog is bad. the federal taxation agency requires EV’s to weigh more than 6k to be considered SUVs. the agency is considering battery weight in its definition. it’s not a perfect definition but nobody on the planet is both able and willing to provide one.