Always wanted a Ferrari F355. My friend’s uncle has one and says it costs about $6K a year in maintenance whether it gets driven or not…fortunately for him, he’s a Ferrari mechanic so the costs aren’t as bad. So I decided an 8-cyl Audi R8 would be easier on the wallet and still give you that coveted gated-shifter.

I don’t do long stays and I generally tip $20 a day since my days in college. My dad was a busboy in his youth and always stressed to me to be compassionate to the hardest worker doing work most folks refuse to do. I leave the room as clean as possible and up until recently use to leave the Do not Disturb sign up…

I hate Lyft/Uber and think they should operate much better. In the 10 times I’ve used it, I was nearly involved in 2 accidents that would have been the drivers fault.  But as for charging for waiting, I couldn’t agree more with the notion. Time is money and it’s not right to waste people’s time and money. However…

$7.25 isn’t too far off from $11.60? Seriously? That’s 160% more. My guess is that the rates being quoted for home charging is in areas with high electricity costs and during peak hours when most have a habit to not charge. Secondly EVs vary greatly in fuel economy. My neighbor’s Audi eTron CUV gets 2miles per…

Not all cars, but most cars built after 2004.  It really depends on who the HVAC controls were programmed.

There are still pirates today with rocket propelled grenades and automatic rifles. International waters is lawlessness at sea and I would not sail in some areas without a military escort (around Indonesia, Somalia, and Russia/North Korea). My in-laws were helped up by pirates when they fled Vietnam in 1978. The…

I take issue with the headline.  Folks are still leasing like crazy.  It’s a tax deduction for a lot of people in the US, is a way for people to drive a new car every 3 years, and generally is a poor financial option for those who can’t deduct the expense.  In my mind, leasing has created a distortion in the market…

Typically Tesla charging stalls are located away from the busy areas of a parking lot (makes sense when you see how much back and forth maneuvers drivers take to back it in), so I don’t see why folks would want to park and not not charge unless they truly forgot, had bathroom emergency they had to prioritize, or were…

They could essentially buy every used EV for a huge discount compared to new.

What a loser? I can fit more in my $3K VW Golf.

Not necessarily. Just because someone drives a $100K doesn’t mean they have money. For all we know they may owe $70K on the loan and $1M on their house. I know if I had any debts, I would never pay for a delivery fee when I could easily do it myself.  That money could go to pay down my debt and I’d be a few dollars…

My read is a little different. It seems like Tesla is responding to a normalizing market where the 12-year bull market of low capital costs, stimulus, speculation, and virtually no competition has gone away. Tesla has raised prices mightily during the pandemic and was making pretty good margin, now with softening…

I never viewed Teslas as luxury. I bought a used Model S with leather and the technology package and I’d say it’s the most luxurious car I ever care to own, but it’s rather minimalist compared to luxury brands in the $60K+ category. My wife and I view the Tesla and most EVs as technology cars. Mercedes and Maserati…

I think folks tend to thing Lexus models are just dressed up Toyotas which is fair when you consider they are build on the same chassis and powertrain; however, I will vouch for the LS as being a legitimate luxury car...not an uber-luxury car though. Speaking of which I’ve ridden in a few Maybachs with fiber-optic…

Just as a reference point: I bought 2 large boulders (about the size of a large dog crate) and one small round from a local building supply yard for my landscape.  They weighed a combined 3K pounds and which happened to be the max payload of my 06 Duramax. I learned that rocks are like 5X heavier than they look and…

My neighbor’s colleague would do something similar to get himself home for binge-drinking.  He’d go on huge benders and use the AP to get him back and forth from Newport Beach to Palm Springs, Ca.  Unbelievable.

No heat pump in our 2013 Fiat 500e nor 2013 Tesla Model S 85, but we live in a very mild climate where it’s rare under 44F overnight during the winter. Our colder climate strategy is the garage the cars, use the heated seats, and to charge them for a little bit before they’re driven. There are battery heaters that…

I’m one of those with cars that just sit. I’ve got a 2006 GM Duramax that gets driven about 1K miles a year. The 16mpg wonder is used for hauling and truck trails mostly. My 2001 VW Golf TDI has been sitting in my garage for 5 years now. It was my car when I was a student and used for a biodiesel experiment. Other two…

I mentally work it out that Bron was rolling in so much exuberance that he either had more than one 918 (because rich people) or that it truly was one of a kind with a morphing rear diffuser. 

Oddly I use a paper towel with some fresh cooking oil to remove the caked-on sticky grease residue. Then follow up with regular diluted dish soap to remove the fresh grease. Learned this from make biodiesel decades ago.