Also, you can predict the type of watch based on the car they drive. For example:

The simplest answer is probably the most common reason: status. Cars are an easy way to show affluence, and so are watches, albeit to a smaller audience.

Best way to turn a pile of snow into a pile of turd.

Do you have to change your screen name if you sell it?

The correct (and sensible) answer is an FJ Cruiser. Like Wranglers, the used market is fairly competitive for these, but they should be way more reliable than the VW.

The situation with Tesla is the opposite of Gamestop. I’m sure there’s a valuation of Tesla that is accurate, but it’s not the value it is now. Hedge funds and other institutional investors are driving the hype and price of this stock. They’ll sell it off, make a nice profit, while leave the rest of the losses to…

It would be used to refill reservoirs to mitigate the drought years. In years where the snowpack is sufficient and the reservoirs are filled, you obviously won’t need them. However, with climate change, it seems like we’re constantly yo-yo-ing from one extreme weather event to the next. In addition to reducing carbon,…

Last I checked, there are no major rivers that go east-west. Look at the Rio Grande, by the time it reaches El Paso, it’s basically a sewer line because all the water has been sucked off upstream.

I don’t think you’d need 20k reactors, and I don’t think defending them would be terribly hard. Good fencing/barriers and guards will fend off most potential attacks. Even a 9/11 type airplane attack will likely only damage a reactor, but not cause any serious containment issues.

Lived in Michigan for 2 years with an S-10 pickup. Just took that beast to the carwash every two weeks in the wintertime. Clean as a whistle. Currently running on 13 years in a CRV and don’t really have a rust issue. Of course YMMV. I trust that you’ve seen much more rust-buckets in your lift than I have.

I think we’re in agreement. Nissan should continuously improve the Pathfinder to compete with Pilot and Highlander, and put out a rugged SUV like the Xterra to compete with 4Runner, etc. I don’t think it has to be BoF to be successful (see Jeep GC), but it has to have the right off-road pieces. However, if they’re…

You’re right that fixing aluminum is not trivial nor cheap. However, 10+ year old Audis and Jags will also have a myriad of other problems to address that are extremely costly. The F150 is the big wildcard as it’s the best selling vehicle every year, and there are tons of them in the snowy states. I don’t think we’ve…

This is my thinking as well. Our energy future should be everything on the table, including modern nuclear plants. The same left-wing people (and I tend to lean left on the political scale) who (rightly) decry right-wingers as anti-science should also look inward with regards to nuclear. The fact that we don’t build…

This is such a banal and stupid right-wing talking point. Talk to WV miners to see if they got all their coal jobs back under Dumpy.

A plug-in hybrid makes absolutely no sense in an Xterra. Put that in any of the other CUV or sedans in the Nissan lineup, starting the the Rogue. The RAV4 Hybrid and Prime are hot sellers, so Nissan should follow suit and hybridize their best selling products.

I don’t understand the hate for the Pathfinder. Yes, it’s not the same as the Pathfinder of past, but who cares. Nissan absolutely need a Pathfinder (i.e. large 3-row family crossover) to even tread water. But they’ll be wise to also bring back the Xterra as a legitimate Jeep/Bronco/4runner competitor instead of a…

For modern vehicles, there are so many more reasons for that vehicle to be scrapped before rust becomes an issue. A software issue is more likely to brick a car long before rust, particularly with more vehicles using aluminum in the body structure.

This explains 75% of Wrangler sales.

I can’t believe the the Neutral question was even asked. Chevy has trucks, oddles of them. Also, people rightly killed the revised Blazer for being a soft-roader when the unreleased Bronco is the most hyped vehicle right now. Huge miss and market opportunity loss by Chevy.

More unique than M2, which to the untrained masses look like any other normie BMW on the road.