Must resist urge to rant about lotteries.

Hey give these guys some credit. They could easily wreck it before it gets stolen.

I don’t know why Toyota (and Ford) do that either. Their planetary transmissions are so fundamentally different (and better) than a regular pulley-and-belt CVT that they should come up with a better/different name.

I know Honda calls this an ‘eCVT’, but I don’t understand why. Why would you associate this with traditional CVTs when you don’t need to. This car barely has what one could even define as a transmission. They could call it anything they want. Or just say it doesn’t have a transmission.

Driving to visit my parents one Saturday or Sunday afternoon in the Greater Boston area in my 2006 Scion Tc, I get off the highway to an interchange and the guy on the road I am joining is flying. Still a ways behind me though and he doesn’t beat me to where the lanes merge to one. Now this is feeding directly into an…

What’s the price on the extended warranty? I like hearing these numbers to gauge reliability. Car manufacturers know full well what their reliability is, and it’s reflected in the extended warranty price.

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If I had to replace my current car right now, I would strongly consider a WRX (other consideration would be Civic Si).

Defeating fascism...woke /s.

Can we talk about the two ‘officials’ at the finish line? Only time before they become Darwin award winners, right?

How about work trucks? No not trucks used to shuttle little Billy and Emma to their soccer games, but real work trucks.

Isn’t BMW pretty high on the list of most reliable brands? Not Toyota high, but in the area of Mazda and Kia/Hyundai.

While you do get maximum torque (but not power) at 0 rpm, electric motors do not have the same efficiency across all rpms. So you could conceivably want a transmission to help with efficiency. But the drop in efficiency is so small with these motors, that it’s debatable whether a transmission is useful. Porsche Taycan…

This is exactly correct.

Usually people with the ‘Eff Your Feelings’ stickers are insecure, easily-triggered, snowflake, man-babies.

But that isn’t because of taxes. Massachusetts has a lot going for it, but the biggest problem by far is housing supply not keeping up with demand. That right there is a much longer discussion. But what people don’t mention about these prices is ‘demand’. Prices are so high because people want to live here. If Mass…

Pick one: cheaper stuff more people can afford, or higher wages for fewer people. A tough love life lesson: you can’t have both.

This is what people who complain about government/oversight/taxes don’t realize...you get something in return. People are like “I don’t get how you can live in Massachusetts with all those taxes”*. Which is fine if you don’t care about things like good schools, a strong social safety net, clean water, etc.

By anti-capitalist, I mean if you place this on a scale of things being 100% capitalist to 100% socialist, tariffs are more toward the socialist side than having no trade barriers (no tariffs) is.

1. Where do I say we shouldn’t import Chinese cars? Just pointing out the other reasons why China has an advantage. Are those things I list not true and not an advantage?