I suspect Chicago is similar to here in Rochester, being situated near a great lake. Most of the winter used to be spent in the high 20s and we’d get light snow (a dusting to 1-2") every other day that would accumulate for most of the winter with a few bigger storms dumping on top of that. A stray day of 40 and rainy…

Sometimes communities get lucky and their local governments or the people running day to day operations are less interested in making a political statement and just do what’s in the best interest for their community. It’s a weird concept to wrap our heads around these days, though.

Maybe if they renamed it the “Trump School Bus Act” the idiots would believe the corrupt cheeto did it and jump on board. After all, he does sometimes have a very school bus complexion. 

Good, these kids need to learn the value of a hard days work. We can’t keep giving them handouts. Murica.

I think it’s twofold -

They always hook you in by tearing out the old driveway and then take their sweet time putting in the new one. That’s how they getcha!

It’s a little scary when you hear stories about contractors showing up to the wrong address to start demolishing things. I think there was a story making rounds recently where an attentive neighbor called the homeowner because a crew came to tear down the house. If the neighbor didn’t have their number they’d have…

Yeah, I’m a little unclear. It seems, like you said, a contractor came out and did the demo portion of the job before realizing they got scammed and stopped the work. What I was expecting was that a new driveway had been installed and the unpaid contractor went back and ripped it out - but that doesn’t seem to be the…

It’s definitely a bit bland. Almost to the point where you think it might be a bit intentional to avoid it looking at all similar to a Rav. The hybrid starts at a higher trim than the base L version of the gas one, at should look a little less bland, but I don’t know if ever ever seen a hybrid or just never noticed…

While it is obviously very different having to bring in millions of vehicles for a physical recall versus push out a software update (from a cost and timing standpoint), it is still an important distinction that Tesla was forced by NHTSA and the Chinese governing body to issue this update because the systems were…

There’s an abondoned project near me that came to mind when you said abandoned interchanges. In Rochester NY there’s an interchange between 590 and 104 where you can get to 590 going southbound but not northbound if you are heading west. You can see clearly on google maps where they started building the ramps to make…

The only thing outside of brakes, tires, and oil changes I ever had to do to my 2013 was front wheel bearings. The one was at 75k miles and the other at 90k. I had them do the plugs for just the cost of parts (an annoyingly time consuming 60k service) when they did the recall work and it got a free oil change and…

There has been zero new Miatas for sale in Western NY any time I’ve looked in the last 2 years (right now I see one that’s an actual car with pictures and not just a dealer allocation, and it’s listed for over sticker). The year prior there were some leftover 2020 models. I almost pulled the trigger before Covid when…

The highways were generally maintained a bit, but where I was (outside of Ann Arbor) it took them so long to get to the non-major roads that it was too late to bother with salt anyway. Salting on top of 3" of compacted ice when it’s 10 degrees out wouldn’t fix the problem of not cleaning the snow off when it fell.

The Forester is fantastic bang-for-the-buck if you needs space/utility. But it’s been a long time since it’s been OK to drive, and the interior materials on each new model get better but still feel cheap (because it IS cheap). I would have expected the manual made it a little less lethargic, but I guess not.

We need billboards that say “it’s called All Wheel Drive, not All Wheel Stop, slow down”

I’m with you. It really really sucks sometimes. A lot of dealers/mechanics being predatory makes it worse - my girlfriend (now wife) had the dealer tell her she needed rear shocks 4 years ago that they haven’t mentioned in the 8 times since that I’ve brought the car in for maintenance/inspection. I’ve had a shops fail…

I’m curious about those times for charging and how they might be skewed based on how people tend to use them.

While the $5k increase in the work truck trim is big news, the $10k increase in the XLT is bigger news and the starting price of the bigger battery being $73k is crazy.

Michigan being number 1 is absolutely not surprising. I spent 3 years there (including 3 winters) and what a learned was: