Even Land Rover accidentally builds a decent vehicle by mistake now and then. If you can get past the awful looks of their entire line and it’s treating you well, then you’re way ahead of the game. 

I bought a new Hyundai from the local dealer in December 2022, and the experience could not have been better. I was treated with respect, not jerked around by finance (even got 0% for 36 months with a rebate), got a fair value for my trade, etc.

I joked with the salesman about the Hyundai experience, and complimented…

The older cars with a wraparound windshield also had taller windshields. This one is too low and that “reverse” A-pillar just makes it look odd while enhancing how low the glass is up front.

So I have a $1039 payment on a Hyundai Santa Cruz. But hear me out.

OK. Neat, I guess.

I guess I’m in the minority in that I liked it. But I also have learned to like bitter tastes in things, and can appreciate the undernotes even if there’s a lot of bitter.

I was at the EV Expo this past weekend at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas. There were many manufacturers with full electric cars (and Hybrids). Due to insane lines at Ford, Tesla, Porsche and others including Vinfast, I only had a chance to drive a VW id.4.

I’m lucky, I guess. I fall asleep in most conditions and prefer to have ear plugs in to keep things quiet. I can’t imagine having voices pumped into my ears as I fall asleep. No thanks to that. In fact, my wife and I don’t have our phones in the bedroom at night. (I do have a tablet for reading, but it’s in full…

I just can’t with flavored coffee. Flavored beans (or grounds) made into coffee all have a “pipe tobacco” flavor to me. Vanilla? Pipe tobacco. Hazelnut? Pipe tobacco and a whiff of hazelnut. And so on. It’s especially weird since I have a pretty refined palate. So I just drink my coffee strong and black 98% of the time…

I brew my own at home and drink it strong and black (like my heart). So my cost is purely tied to the cost of beans. And yeah, the price has been incrementing up, but not shockingly so. I think the quart or so of strong brew I make a day costs me all of 30 cents to make. At least it’s in that ballpark, and that’s…

Podcasts saved to the phone. Or I can beam ‘em in directly from God now.

Satellite radio. It sounds like garbage and doesn’t have content I particularly care for. I definitely adm not going to pay.

And lately even terrestrial radio, which has become just awful. I hate commercials.

My car has Android Auto and my phone has a 512 GB card with tens of thousands of tracks. I have all the music…

I’d be angry, too, if I was in Ohio and had to eat at Burger King.

This article could have been left unwritten and still complete by eliminating the apostrophe and everything after it in the title. 

Agreed. Nothing about this seems worth the effort to pay for, disassemble and re-assemble all that food.

Yep. That $24,500 is simply a down payment that allows you to take on the continual wallet-drain of keeping this beast running.

100% ND. Even at half the price, ND. At around $5,000 it might be interesting, but not to me. 

Same here. His silly “aww shucks” persona just hits wrong and seems beyond fake. I have no proof that he is an asshole behind the scenes, but he seems like he easily could be.

I used to live in an apartment building with common laundry. 36 units per building and 4 washers and 4 dryers. Getting access to 1 or 2 machines was generally not a problem and I was fortunate to work from home, so I could use the machines during non-prime times.

What are the advantages? Asking seriously and not being snarky.

My grandmother (a mother of post-WWII and the 1950s) was very much a “cook from the box” type of person. Plenty of mixes, canned foods, etc. Her “shortcake” was Pillsbury biscuits, macerated strawberries (which she actually did herself fresh) and Cool-Whip.