Honestly, gas tax suspensions are short-sighted. We need to keep funding infrastructure improvements, and cutting off funding at the source isn’t the way to do that.

Yep. I’m fairly local to this. It was sunny one minute, and then a whiteout the next. I’m sure those cars were driving in normal visibility just moments before. 

Our public school sends out such a waiver every year. That way they can do publicity photos, broadcast sports games, etc. etc. without worrying about it.

Nobody’s going to say it?

I drove an ‘87 plain jane 3-door in college, and plenty of my friends had newer models such as this one above. Mine also got gussied up as a GT by the previous owner - replete with GT rims, GT spoiler duct taped to the decklid, and hand-cut racing stripes that were even mirrored in the rear window tint.

Nice price? (LOL just kidding)

This. And now they’ve even figured out that, since they can only make X amount of F-150's, that they might as well make them in the highest trim packages they can make, and only when they run out of parts & pieces for the premium trucks will they back up and start making the lower trim models. That’s where the profit…

Take your star, as I’ll now have that song stuck in my head for days!

The late 90's/early 2000's GM design language was like this all over the place. Great front ends, good looking sides, and then it’s just like they forgot how to design when they got to the back.

Meh, bought my last Sienna for cash (not a flex, it was not anywhere near new), at a dealership. They were most concerned about where they were going to store it, but they took it.

I think the engine made the platform in this instance. It was the perfect balance of old-school and modern, and fit the vehicle very well.

I had a stock base model with the I-6 for a company vehicle back in about 2012 or so. I liked it, and it was a good vehicle for the era. I would rock this up and down the coast for that price, and have fun doing it.

Yep. turn them on, then turn the shift back to ‘parking lights’ and they will stay up but off.

I don’t know man. All of our local dealerships are picked bare pretty much. The one local Chevy dealer usually has 2-3 corvettes and 30-40 pickups out front, plus a ton of SUV’s and more pickups out back. Right now they have 1 ‘vette and maybe a couple pickups. 

I’m precisely at 50/50 NP vs. ND. It’s clean, and mostly un-molested. If the owner is 35 or older, it’s probably relatively un-hooned, and a NP. If the owner is younger, or vapes, ND.

Far be it from me to defend terrible plow truck drivers, but they may have had a good reason to do that - it’s significantly easier to plow snow than it is to remove ice, so by letting the ice fall on top of snow, they should be more able to clear the lanes once the precipitation stops.

Or spit...

I think it’s more that the Level 2 systems only require part of our attention. That’s something humans aren’t good at - we either pay attention, or we ignore. Being halfway in-between for long periods of time is not in our nature.

The advantage with a city like Detroit is that you have 4 seasons, so you can study what heat, cold, wind, rain, snow, ice, etc. will do to the roads.

How many hours is that? I can see things starting to wear if they’re putting 2,000-3,000 hours on per year, but that’s a pretty extreme usage case so I wouldn’t think so.