Much the same with Maine. It’s pretty reasonable, and the State Police who administer it take allegations of fraud as serious as a heart attack. I got the local SEARS into deep shit many years ago over a bullshit inspection failure on one of my Volvos.

CAFE needs to go away. Just appropriately tax fuel and call it a day if there is a societal influence in pushing the populace in a certain direction as far as fuel economy goes. With the bonus that CAFE is counterproductive in influencing people to drive less, or make better choices about where they live and work, or…

One that you sit in the back of and blast critters from, often from a raised throne. A thing in the Middle East.

Real G-wagens were always available with a soft top, just like real LR Defenders. Only the poseur versions didn’t.

On thing to point out - that average of 80hrs per month. We standard desk jockeys are paid based on *120*hrs per month. So the time they spend commuting and sitting at the gate is factored into that. AND once they have some seniority it’s a pretty flexible occupation with some nifty fringe benefits. Which is why despit…

The overall form is lovely. The details are <eek>. That is a face a mother would perform a post-natal abortion on.

Along the same lines, the ability to have different temps at face and foot is a Godsend too. Even if Dougie DuhMuro can’t wrap his tiny head around it.

I think it’s fugly, but if that is art to you, you do you. $80K buys a lot more artistic cars than this.

Try taking a long trip with a woman of a certain age and get back to me on that. I drove 4500 miles around Europe with my mother in a BMW M235i in the heat of late summer. That woman is ALWAYS cold. I am ALWAYS hot. Thank GOD for dual zone climate control, and yes, it very much makes a difference, even in a small…

IT consultant here - thankfully, my company doesn’t use it nor do we resell it. We have some majorly affected clients though. And we do resell a couple of competitors, so we expect to get some business out of this.

Glad it was a slow month and I was home this week. A couple of colleagues were stranded Friday. No idea if they have gotten home yet.

You can’t leave us hanging - what is happening where you are next January that would make this nominally ancient thing legal then but potentially not now?

The gas tank IS the rear crumple zone. It will be *fine*.

I can very much guarantee that they know what they are doing far better than you do. Perhaps you should get a job at Ford and work your way up to the C-suite and show them how it should be done? Of course, that would be more difficult than whining on the Internet.

Ditto - but this car lives in SW FL, which is flatter than a pool table.

Mine does not. <shrug> I have never needed “aggressive acceleration” in that car - I drive it like a grown-ass adult. <shrug, again>

That is deeply unfortunate looking.

I will also say, that for a sporty car where I might occasionally want to shift for myself, I prefer to use a center console shifter with good design to do that. I hate flappy paddles. My Mercedes has those to0, I never use them, there is no reason to where I live, and they are dumb in that there is no way to put the…

Only if the lessor is subventing the lease - or in this case, you get $7500 off the price only if you lease. Depreciation per se is a red herring here. With a lease, ALL you are paying for is the depreciation, plus interest and fees. So a car that depreciates more should be more expensive to lease than a car that…

So if you were going to get an automatic anyway, there isn’t much of a price increase.