The average in the US is 14K per year. That would be every seven months. 

I was astounded to see that there is now Mobil 1 *0w5* oil. That stuff must be like helium when it’s hot.

I suspect the real issue is low-tension piston rings to reduce friction and increase efficiency. Combine that with the injection pressure and higher compression ratios GDI allows and I can see more unburned fuel getting past the rings. And that leads to cylinder wall scoring that increases the blowby and you end up in…

5500lbs?!??? WTF?!? That is a full TON more than my e91 328! wagon. And that is before you put 4 full-figured Americans and their crap in it presumably.

It’s couch cushion money for something interesting and very rare. You could do a LOT worse for the money. I wouldn’t daily drive something like this, but as a toy, why not? NP.

I’ve bought a couple cars where I literally stopped at WallyWorld after picking it up, bought a $30 A/C recharge can, tossed it in in the parking lot, and drove home with cold air. People are lazy, and if they can’t DIY, terrified of taking a car to a shop. And while it may not be environmentally friendly, I have no…

IMHO, the best BIG airport is DTW, especially if you are on Delta or partners so are in the main terminal. But even the other terminal is pretty nice these days, easy in and out. I’ve gotten stuck in Phoenix too many times, considering I rarely connect there, and connections can be a LONG walk. John Wayne is pretty fin…

They needed to have the Plane Train and the rental car train be the same damned train!

I connect through Charlotte dozens of times a year. Rarely an issue. Clusterfucks happen at every single airport including tiny ones, it is totally luck of the draw. I’ve gotten screwed by Mother Nature at every major airport in the country, with O’Hare seeming to particularly have it out for me.

I always get stuck with the long death march due to no train when a flight was late and I land in the middle of the night. JUST what you want after a long day of travel.

I literally just flew into DFW for work a couple hours ago. Fourth time this summer, God knows how many times over the years. The rental car buses know how to get in and out for the place, LOL. And I had a private bus tonight at 5pm. I don’t mind DFW as a destination or a connection. Lots of good food, lots of…

No, ATL sucks donkey balls. Even more than the usual huge US hub airport. Because:

IMHO, extended warranties are just pre-paying for repairs that may not happen. I have owned a TON of European cars, and not one of them had enough repairs in what the warranty period would have been to have saved me a penny. I would have lost my shirt on them in fact.

It’s never been true for cars bought properly priced. Any car with “huge” initial depreciation was almost certainly normally sold with a massive discount up front. The list of cars with the highest depreciation has historically parallel those with the largest discounts. And the converse is true for the list of the…

Agreed - used cars only make sense when they are well-depreciated and significantly cheaper than new. And I would still buy new if anybody offered what I wanted new anymore. For sure I can’t see paying 90% of new for somebody else’s sloppy seconds. 

Maybe on the left coast they like to use helicopters from that high, but in my (unfortunately direct in my younger years, I got pegged by airplanes twice) on the right coast it’s done by small airplanes, and they fly fairly low. Pilots need to log a certain number of hours per month for currency, they might as well…

I don’t, the concourses are crowded enough without all the lookie-lous.

The motorcyclists who want a butt massage buy Harleys.

That greenhouse though - all that glass, those slim pillars... Remember when you could see out of a car without needing cameras?

It was the rage then - the Cadillac Seville was a gussied up Chevy Nova at the end of the day.