Love your adventures, Tom! Always read them. Always learn something.
Love your adventures, Tom! Always read them. Always learn something.
Normally when faced with these kinds of things, I just move on to another store, but I was feeling a bit spicy that day and wanted to pin this guy down with the actual regulations. Also, I got a blog out of it.
Toyota Tercel. Bought the base model (no a/c, no radio, no power anything, not even a passenger-side rearview) for MSRP in late ‘91, which was around 7 grand at the time—comes out to ~$15k today. Most reliable, dependable, and predictable vehicle I’ve ever owned. When it came to amenities and frills, there were none,…
Yep, the Fit has got to be a finalist here. The amount of useable space they managed to find in an efficient, cheap, and small vehicle is incredible. That they also managed to make it decently fun car to drive (particularly in manual transmission guise) was the icing on the cake. So obviously they stopped importing…
A wealthy region’s governments actually coming up with a practical solution instead of just a new way to treat unhoused people like subhumans?
The genius of the Prius is still not quite appreciated. Not only for things like this, but for just how bulletproof they are. It’s even more impressive when you think of how new hybrid technology was when it came out. It’s about the cheapest non-EV you could possibly own - I know I miss my ‘04 terribly.
Really? No Toyota Hilux?
It’s not the vertical lights. It’s the use of LEDs to create a continuous line rather than a bunch of dots. (And the integration of that line in the styling.)
We have lived in the San Jose area for the last 20 years and none of our cars have ever been broken into. And we are not particularly careful about anything. In fact I’ve been living in the Bay Area, Oakland, and also LA since the 1980's and I’ve only ever had one car break-in- That one happened during a visit to Vanco…
“On the other hand, this seems super shady (and un-Canadian).”
I do prefer watching a resto of a free Charade than some of the “I just bought crashed *insert supercar here* and it cost me this much to fix” *cough Tarvish* videos