I’m not convinced anyone in NYC knows the rest of the country exists.

LOL, I was about to comment something along the lines of a sarcastic “Whoa, those are some really nice FLAT roads!”. Snow tires or not, go ahead and stop on a nice incline with RWD...game over.

Regular snow, sure. Try climbing an icy hill without AWD or 4x4. Last week in Portland, OR it snowed like a half inch, then melted and re-froze. The only way we got around was a Land Rover Discover II with studded tires (once you get over the initial butt clench it’s actually quite fun).

You do need to go down that un-plowed dead end street when you live on it...

Counterpoint:

You should also mention that when you get into your car, turn it on, and start the defrosters - DO NOT - just turn try and immediately turn the wipers on. There’s a little transmission between the wiper motor and your wiper arm/blades and this is a very easy way to FUBAR it. It doesn’t take much ice (or frost even…

In his defense, storing anything other than gas in a gas can is not a wise move. Unless it had huge labels on it.

Slight amendment to your idea.....car says

Let me get this straight : Their plan is to ship distracted dummies over to all the non-boring, great driving roads where actual drivers thrive?

This should be the road it routes them on if they can’t put thier fucking phone/cig/vape/dildo/hamburger down:

Precisely. I understand the need to finance in plenty of situations, but the length some people are signing up for is beyond absurd. Especially when it’s for a used car.

People who want an affordable phone and don’t need all the latest and greatest bells and whistles would happily buy a cheap five-year-old phone that still ran decently well. Technology is always going to wear out or become obsolete, but it’s still possible to build things so that they last and keep working close to…

Norway’s adoption of EV’s makes sense because of huge buyer credits and subsidies.

Problem with all electric cars is that there are less little parts to service. Very rarely does your whole engine go out or your whole transmission go out on a new car these days. However the slightest problem with the drive unit and you dont fix it you replace the whole thing. That will cost you more than the car is…

While they may have had good intentions, they can’t and shouldn’t haven’t enacted them.

I sell Chevy, and I don’t think I have sold aVolt to a customer who didn’t ask how much is it going to cost to replace the batteries. (To which GM has never announced a price, Gm has told salespeople to say they will never need replacing, and they will out last the car). This is a very real fear of people buying…

Yup! Tech doesn’t age well at all. And hi-tech automotive shit ages even faster

What the studies might show about long-term battery degradation has fuck-all to do with consumer behavior. People are used to seeing rechargeable batteries on all of their devices begin to degrade in about two years. Obviously the batteries in an iPhone and a Tesla are worlds different, but that’s how we’re…

If it takes eight years to pay the car off, the technology in it will be older than that keyboard-having Blackberry you still keep in the nightstand you don’t need to be looking at buying/leasing any new car.