Re: Second Gear...”where it moved just..” The ID.4 is sold out in NA for 2022, is it not? Due to its popularity, vehicles not delivered to original orders are also seeing hefty dealer markups as well. Considering the massive roll of the dice VW took to focus on EV’s, it seems like they SHOULD be patting themselves on t…

Yep. Had something similar; just about to touch down then back up we went. Pilot came on and mentioned that the plane in front had not exited the runway in a timely manner forcing the go around.

No, you specifically said “Overpriced and unperformed in pretty much <u>every performance aspect</u> in 2022". Then you turned around and cherry picked “other aspect” as a basis for your opinion. That’s no big deal. But the fact that you got snide about being called out on it, with a characteristic that is often regrad…

We still drive our eGolf every day. It’s got all the benefits of the Golf with next to no maintenance required. It’s the perfect “kids’ car for running around town and never needing gas money. Even at 70 miles of range (we don’t top off unless needed) it easily covers daily needs and can be realistically charged on a…

Counter Point: They’re great and it’s the car everyone in the family grabs when they have to run somewhere. Within a day everything is set up (or running through wireless CarPlay) and you mostly never need to interact with the screen except to tune the radio. Shame you all passed on it so quickly, it’s the nads.

Damn right, she has aged really well.  Good for her! 

We bought our ID.4 from a combined Jeep-VW-Dodge-etc dealer. According to the salesman they had many newish Wranglers on the lot. To the point that They had a “Blow Out” sale for Jeeps going on last month when we picked up. Apparently, they hold their value so well that it is very easy to get current owners into the…

Not to mention, information about dealers that are hard to work with or are charging markups can be considered private business knowledge for their own benefit. If you’re in the business, you don’t just give that information away for free. Why help potential competitors? Let them waste their time with deadenders and…

Possibly a fire onboard? I think the Jet Blue accident from back when, due to oxygen generators causing a fire, had a descent profile like that shown.

...with a complete stranger at the controls who is assumed to be mentally ‘with-it’.

...and UnProfessional Saps (COCK UPS)

We had the chance to purchase a 2019 Niro BEV or its sister, a 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric. Same drive train, but the Niro is a little tuned down compared to the Kona. We opted for the Kona, but the Niro was quite nice and had more space, IMO. Point is, I don’t know why your starting position is so dismissive of the…

NASCAR races are expensive to attend? Based on NASCAR radio (old Sirius/XM channel), I thought that they were hemorrhaging attendance and everything was in this sort state of decline as compared to the 90's. Color me surprised that they can still command, and get, premium prices for the gate. 

Low miles aren’t the end-all; be all. For one, low mile cars are often destined for plastic bubbles to keep the speculation of more money in the future going. Second, things age, get dry and brittle. If you’re looking to blow some money, better to look for a car that has been driven (to chase the gremlins out) and…

No doubt. I read it as da’hammer (The Hammer). Like ‘Bill da Cat’. That his mind went right for ‘dick’ says a lot. Now if it were dhammer69 instead of 94...

Plain coffee is all I order at Starbucks and it is fine. No better or worse than any indie shop I’ve visited. It’s all in what/how you like things.

Agreed. We have a Wawa (popular chain convenience/gas stores) and Chick-Filet side by side here. Same deal, traffic nightmare between 10 am to 4 pm. What always amazes me is the lengths to which people will go to patronize these stores via automobile.  I must be getting old, but conveniently laid out and accessible…

We have that issue with horse barns in this area. Teenage girls will work for free just to be around the horses in the summer. So here we have rich folks with their expensive hobby getting barn work done for free on the backs of willing kids, of which there is no apparent shortage. At this one barn the practice was…

Perhaps.  But if a gambler can’t afford to lose his/her money while walking away and murmuring ‘well thems the breaks’, they shouldn’t be in so deep as to lose their rationality.

I wonder what the effect would be on carbon emissions if the shipping industry was seriously incentivized to convert all sea going vessels from their bunker oil gulping diesel engines to some other form of propulsion (gas turbines?). I’d have to believe that would be the single largest impact to world wide emissions…