The newer synthetic seat material is better than leather for most uses. It lasts longer and is more durable to everything from spills to cuts and scratches. It’s resistant to most chemicals. Cleans easy. And it doesn’t dry out or get cracked up like leather. Plus it has more elasticity, so it tends to be more…

Someone is forcing you to drive in the city? Have you called the police? 

Is anyone forcing you to drive in city centers? I think you meant to say I don't like other people driving in city centers. If you didn't like it yourself you wouldn't do it. 

Wouldn’t it have made more sense for your comment to say, “I don’t know anything this SUV. I don’t know why people would buy it or not buy it. But somehow I'm irrationally offended by rear seats that haven't seen a lot of use.”

I owned a 2007 6.0. I literally owned it for 10 months total. It was the shortest I've ever owned a vehicle. I think we had a common experience. Lol. I don't think I'll ever own a diesel at all again after that. I'm not sure they've gotten a whole lot better since then.

Until the last year or early 2000's Ford diesels we’re almost free. They often sold at auction for the value and scrap. I bought some equipment at an auction about a year and a half ago and there were a couple of these that the auction company didn’t get the minimum $400 bid for.

It depends on what you’re using it for. Depending on your travel trailer for example you often can’t fit into a normal camp spot if you have something like a crew cab long bed truck. For example, let’s say you have a 24-ft travel trailer. With a crew cab short bed f250, you will not fit into almost any of the camping…

This. I had a 6.0. fuel savings didn’t come even remotely close to covering the constant engine repairs. Injectors for the 6.0 are $450/ea and they last about 150k miles. 15qt oil changes on short intervals. Head gaskets. Clogged oil coolers. Clogged EGR. Ruptured EGR. Stuck unison rings. The list is a mile long. Even…

New Sequoia has more power and torque, bigger brakes, stronger rear axle, etc. than an excursion. And would tow more if you applied modern tow ratings to the excursion. So there’s at least one alternative coming soon.

Perfect comment from person who’s never towed a trailer. The excursion is the shortest wheelbase hd diesel tow vehicle. Why would this make less sense than a truck? If you’re towing a bigger trailer, it’s perfectly reasonable to buy this over a truck for two people.

Not just tax. Also includes insurance on I think. Aussie prices are not really comparable. Land Cruiser 300 starts at $46.5k USD n Japan apples to apples pricing.

Dealers said they wanted a Land cruiser. And they didn’t want the $80k trim model Toyota was selling. I think your right the name plate comes back for an off road model. But it’ll probably be something half way there that sucks. Like the FJ cruiser.

The issue was frames made by Dana corp. Probably falsified metal manufacturing data. That's getting really common now. Anyway, result was that the steel wasn't rolled hot enough or under enough pressure. So the layers didn't fully weld together. The result was something like puff pastry - the frame rails had layers…

Generational wealth exists. It wasn’t nearly as likely to continue for multiple generations historically in the USA as it is now. There are two key reasons - first, the ultra wealthy have shifted almost all risk away from themselves through government that socializes losses without any sharing of the benefits of the…

Taking public transit is not as convenient as a private Escalade. I certainly didn’t ever say or imply that. I did say (1) that the ride in the Escalade is immaterial to the environment in comparison to the flight that follows. So WGAF about using an EV instead of an ICE on your way to pollute more than a years worth…

Most of the history of the USA. Do you know who John Astor’s descendants are? I don’t. He was one of the richest people in the history of the USA. Rockefeller? Carnegie? Vanderbilt? Girard? Mellon?

It’s pretty easy in any major city. Give me an address and Google will even tell you how to get there. We take private transfers because it’s relatively inexpensive and convenient. I don’t take the bus. But it’s not because I can’t. I just don’t want to. The difference between an ice or EV is immaterial to me. If I’m…

Capitalism comes in a lot of forms. The world exists in a spectrum. The key driver of well functioning capitalism is allowing failure of those at the top. America used to do well at that. Very few of the richest Americans today are decedents of the richest Americans 100 years ago. There are some, but the top 100 would…

Yes. Take the bus or train to the airport. That’s what basically everyone does in most cities in Europe and Asia. Car service is an unneeded luxury. Boston has public transit to get to the airport from basically anywhere. Even with reasonable luggage. 

What happens when the value goes back to zero? That’s the really really shitty part - the rest of us get forced to bail them out. Privatize all the gains and socialize the losses. It’s literally the worst of capitalism and socialism together. Paradoxically the core value of Bitcoin is it’s potential to remove the…