The next generation of car enthusiasts need to know that ninety nine out of 100 people who try to modify their car(s) will do it poorly. The resale value of their car will go down. Pity. But the one percenters will become superstars, or at least earn a good living, building machines that the rest of the next…

It needs to be at least a 2-4 year associates or bachelor degree program with dedicated credits and ROTC type training. If we’re going to treat police officers as a multi-tool for any domestic problem under the sun, we need to train them as such.

At the end of the day, this was just a better use of time and money. 

My car has a device known as a “Rear Main Seal” that coats the undercarriage with a rust proofing substance while I’m driving.

Better headline: “Alleged gang member kills pedestrian in street-racing crash”

The average 35' 5th wheel owner runs the generator for 12hr every day - the entire period they're allowed to run them at the campground. At least that's my experience. The typical smaller travel trailer owner has already switched to battery and solar. 

2nd gear: This is why car buying isn’t going to return to normal anytime soon. Why rush to shore up their supply chains so they can make and sell two cars, when they can blame outside forces, provide shitty service, and charge enough to make the same profit making and selling just one car?

Those tires tell me everything I need to know, now that I’ve googled whatever the hell “Cosmo Mucho Macho Tires” are.

Now, I could see why you might’ve thought the fox abandoned you.
But, let’s be real, the fox looked at the situation and said:
Farble! I can’t move this van alone! I better go and get more foxes!
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I mean, haven’t you see ANY Disney movies?
If you’d simply waited there, Oh, two days, and done something useful, like knitted…

This spectrum is useful, and it puts into words how the definition of reliable may change not just between people, but between cultures.

I agree. An AWD hybrid drivetrain for that thing would print money for people in the Northeast. Besides; put snow tires on it and it’ll probably go through almost anything and get respectable mileage while it’s at it.

Hybrid AWD would get me to buy one eventually (I don’t need AWD, but in western NY you get your money back selling it and then some).

It’s funny you say that. I want a Maverick as an alternative to a Civic - essentially i see the Maverick as a sedan with a more flexible trunk (when equipped with a cover). People comparing it to a TRUCK are missing the appeal to a lot of buyers.

Wow, calling it a “perspective shift” is a hell of a way to rebrand “do what the poors have to do”. My current vehicle is a $500 Prius that was my coworker’s secondary beater, it’s been in front and rear collisions and the battery connections are damaged. I’ve been driving it for a year and as of now I don’t have…

To paraphrase Curtis LeMay, every car is an interim car.

IDK

It looks like a 17 year old Isuzu Trooper. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

1st Gear: Maybe if Americans had actually learned a lesson from the the last gas shortage and didn’t insist on driving giant behemoths of vehicles, this wouldn’t be an issue.

I’m glad I’ve stayed with vehicles that get good gas mileage and didn’t let the expectation of good fuel economy get overridden by other factors just because gas was cheaper for a time. My Sportwagen may not be a speed demon that’s filled with luxurious features, but I still average over the published 32mpg in mixed…

You’ll forgive me for having very little sympathy for dealers complaining about people asking them real, important questions about how they might actually go about *using* an EV. The market is changing. You either change with it or you get left in the dust. Whining about people asking questions you don’t know the…