I am amazed at how much better newer cars are. My wife drives a 2014 CR-V and typically averages around 27-28 mpgs. I am currently driving a 2017 Acadia Limited (old body style) and I am averaging close to 19 mpg for the first 2000 miles or so of owning the vehicle compared to the 16 mpg average on the Explorer. This…

You missed the entire point of my post which is that the math will always work towards the old one. I was just telling a similar story to the post that I was responding to in which someone traded there fully paid off F150 in for a new Focus to save money on gas but ended up having a monthly payment higher than the gas…

If only more people could understand that. I once did the math comparing my 15 mpg Ford Explorer to an 80 mpg Volt (basically the first 40 miles were free and the remaining drive was at 40 mpg). Even with as approaching $4/gallon the payoff was years.

It also lets them explain to investors why are investing in fuel efficiency technology. If standards were lax and gas was cheap it would be really easy for short sighted investors to start demanding they only build and invest in profitable and currently in demand trucks, SUVs, and other gas guzzlers. That would leave…

From my understanding you can always sue for negligence no matter what kind of sign is present or waiver there is that you have to sign. Imagine if you went sky diving and there was no parachute in the pack that they gave you because they forgot to put it back in when reloading the used parachutes. Even though you…

A few years ago I was at my girlfriend at the time, now wife’s, apartment on a Friday evening to meet up with her and some her work friends to go out bar hopping. I had bought my ZL1 a few months earlier and was driving it to her place. One of the of the co-worker’s girlfriends was complimenting me about my “orange…

The last couple of flights I have been on have the entertainment screens mounted to the seat in front of you. You can get real time flight data on those screens ranging from location, to altitude, to speed, to ambient temperature. The ambient temperature at altitude seems to be around -40°F.

I never said anything about front plates being impossible. I simply stated that a lot of cars leave the factory without a front plate mount installed. Installing the OEM front plate mount requires drilling holes into the car. Since I live in an area that does not require a front plate and prefer the aesthetics of a…

Most front plate mounts are actually installed at the dealership. Installing the kit requires the dealer to drill holes into the front bumper of the car.

The last 3 vehicles that I bought new do not have the front plate mounts installed at the factory. When the car arrives from the factory the mount and kit are in the trunk of the car with instructions to drill holes into the front bumper of the car to install the front plate mount. When I factory ordered my 2013 car I…

Reading the article will tell you it is considered racially motivated because, “They made a statement that they did not like white people and they were only going to rob white people.” The next paragraph also states that they let an African-American victim go after they found out she was not white.

I am about your same height. The key is to set your mirrors out wide so that when you lean to to glass and then to the middle of the car you only begin to see the edges of the car at either extreme.

Considering that many of their customers don’t keep the cars much past a typical lease period then the extended effects won’t affect them.

I know people with Cavaliers that used to make the same claim. However, they were adding at rates that equaled normal oil change intervals.

I might be a bit biased, but I have no issues being able out of the Camaro both 5th and 6th generation models.

That’s partially because the tax can vary widely in the US based on what state and in some cases city you are purchasing from.

That’s because today’s turbo 4's and 6 cylinder cars are outperforming the “cheap V8s” from the 1960s “Golden Era” of cheap speed all the way up to the 1990s and early 2000s V8s. Today’s V8 cars are approaching and exceeding supercar levels of power AND performance of supercars from the 90s and early 2000s.

I can’t speak from personal experience, but I believe your last statement is true to some extent. I know of friends in Michigan who have arrangements with their local tire shops where the shop stores their off-season tires. When they make their appointment to switch tires the shop can arrange to have their tires…

I would imagine that Michigan winter weather is more consistently cold than in Kentucky. We definitely get a lot more rain than snow in the winter and usually hover around 45-50°F. Most of the time when we do get snow it is accompanied by a layer of ice. Having AWD really does help keep the car more stable than FWD or…

In the same way that summer tires lose effectiveness in cooler weather, snow tires lose effectiveness in warmer weather. Where I live the typical winter temperatures hover in the too warm for winter tires (~45°F) range, however it’s not uncommon to get several bad snow storm events or freezes over the course of the…