Neutral: Any major changes in philosophy towards car ownership will take at least a couple of decades to fully manifest, and that is if they really occur. The pipe dream of no car ownership has seemingly arisen from environmentalists and the tech minded (both groups have different motivations for this) who have…

I am averaging around 19 in my Acadia and 17 in my ZL1.

Where I live the only condition for renewing car insurance is paying the bill. I have only ever had 1 car inspected, and that was only done because I was bringing it in from out of state. They only checked to make sure it had lights, mirrors, and a windshield.

I have never been unable to unsee that “feature” since first seeing the car.

The problem with winter tires is that they get less effective and wear down quickly when the temperature rises into the 40s. I don’t know how Pittsburg is in the winter, but if winter time stays in the 40s and 50s a lot with occasional cold dips then winter tires would not be a great idea unless he doesn’t mind…

But it has tap shift so it must be a manual! - Dealership employee who posts the cars online.

I was going to say either an Ecoboost Mustang or Turbo 2L Camaro. Both are solid cars and can be optioned up with nice interiors.

New means it was never titled. That means the dealership never sold it.

While the LFA may be a piece of art, it is hard to not compare it to the mass produced, factory (not upgraded) Camaro that can outrun it on a racetrack for ~15% of the cost. The ultimate purpose of performance cars is...well...performance.

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…

New Jersey has much lower gas taxes compared to neighboring states. They seem to make up for it in property taxes however.

Yes. That has been the norm in the US for well over a decade now. Only very small, rural gas stations might still require you to go inside to pay. New Jersey and Oregon essentially do not allow you to exit your car at the gas station. When you pull up to the gas pump an attendant will place the pump handle in your car…

Just like how ALL of the glaciers melted away 5 years ago? At least according to the timeline from 10 years ago.

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…