And better approach and departure angles, it’s not all bad.

So let her buy her own damn slushbox car.

Pedestrians get mowed down all the time, you can be party to a car accident without having ever sat your bum in one.

You could get a different head unit that updates via a flash drive or wifi. The SYNC 3 APIMs in my fords do it via flash drives to the emmc in the APIMs. 

In Arkansas 80lbs is average for male Labs and German Shepherds. My GSDs best friends are yellow labs though.

They do though, over the years my German Shepherds have preferred Crew Cab ford trucks to all other modes of transportation besides large boats.

It’s dumb to drive trucks for everything with $5 gas but in AR square feet are pretty cheap, so why not... Simply have more than one automobile! This is a good excuse for beginning a car collection, with your pickup truck and a 4 cylinder stick car that is not using forced induction or particularly high compression…

Vans are a pain in the butt to work on, pickup trucks are super easy to work on because you can pop the cab off and the front clip in not very much time and work on whatever you like if you have a 2 post lift. Not to mention there’s actually room for hands in the engine compartment if it’s a gas engine one.

Did you misplace your goalpost?

Converting one compressed format to another reduces the quality no matter what you do. To retain good quality you want to compress the .wav, not a mp3 to something else.

They still make nice android tablets with sd cards, I use these on long trips for music. The infotainment system in my trucks also does FLAC from flash drives, I use that too.

In 2002 you could get a Creative Nomad Zen something or another with a 60GB hdd.

The crewcab bench is a hell of a dog bed. 

I think he must have been sloshed when he showed up to the airport.

Do you really believe the ISS will exist in 2033? lol

You don’t have to have a nazi wagon, you can buy 9th generation accords with 17.4 gallons fuel tanks (american gallons not imperial). You can spec F150 with a 36 gallons tank too. It was a $400 option when I ordered mine a few years ago.

To always be able to charge at home you’d need redundant generators and ideally ones that run on different fuels, eg a natural gas or propane one and another that is diesel.

For many  people, but for some of us don’t care at all. I keep a stick 4 banger around in addition to the trucks for times such as these.

My Accord has a 17.4 gallon tank and a 6spd, it gets 650 on long trips routinely and 700+ on good days.

My 2014 accord 6spd has a 17.4 gallons tank and routinely turns in 650+ miles on long trips per tank, my 36 gallons F150 does the same thing but even more if speed below 80 mph average.