I just wish appropriately aimed headlights were a thing.

Did you read the article or just skip it to post that?

I wanted to buy a specific new Fiesta ST that was listed on the dealership’s website. The sales guy REALLY wanted to sell me an eight year old Focus ST. Why? Who knows. Someone must have leaned on him hard to get rid of it.

“Turns out, the finance company won’t approve you if you don’t buy the extended warranty.” Oh yea? The extended warranty company that isn’t affiliated with the finance company in any way but happens to give you a sweet commission for every policy you sell? It’s also illegal to try to force a customer to buy an…

and the Lord Jesus spoke: “ye, if thou hast a rockin bod, make yon ducats on the site only for fans, my child! dolla, dolla bills, ye all!”

Useless Trivia of the day - 1967 was the only year for a factory Grand Prix convertible.

I do belive it:

Thank you. That is exactly what this website used to be about. The cult of cars. Older vehicles, interesting vehicles, wrenching, car culture. And where I write ‘car”, you can also think ‘truck’.

Maybe. But my experience here in Texas, is that most don’t. People buy trucks, just because. I know some that actually use them for off-roading, sometimes. But not a high percentage are being used for work.  

I do not want to get used to driving a large, ponderous vehicle. Ever. I am a driving enthusiast first. If I want to drive a tall ponderous vehicle, I will hitch a ride in my friend’s big rig.

No they’re not. They’re bigger for no reason, have seating because people have decided to use them for people haulers instead of stuff haulers, and we live in a society today where every family has at least two cars anyway. Unless you live in a city, in which case you don’t need a pickup truck at all.

My entire neighbourhood might disagree with you. An urban cowboy every 3rd or 4th house, where the truck sees a random orbital more often than it sees any dirt.

I like trucks but if I really need to use one I’ll just Google the nearest U-Haul and save me the running cost of having a large truck.

You kind of can have best of both worlds. Especially popular in EU.
Get a trailer. You still get your fun daily, and in rare cases when you need to haul stuff, just attach the trailer and off you go. It is misconception in USofA that you need a truck to tow.

sorry but this is bad advice.

I’ll take my car advice from Jalopnik thank you.

Springs don’t “tire out” from being pulled on. Blades take a set when they are garbage and mostly when ice freezes the pivots, but also because car makers tend to park the blades so the full weight of the spring is on some tiny portion of the rubber strip, which takes a set. That set causes the gap.

wind can blow off the rubber windshield wiper blade.

Rather than go into a long diatribe about why, I’m just preemptively say tl;dr, Kevin is wrong and his take is bad.

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