I know from experience that if your car is nice and banged up on the outside, people seem to think twice about playing that game of chicken to try to squeeze out one more place in line at a legitimate merge point. Just slide right in, because it’s your car or mine, and mine has already been run into a wall once, so…
I gave you a second star, which of course means no one is really reading (or maybe comprehending) your post. I love when people’s first instinct to problems like an extreme wealth gap is to look toward government to fix it.
And the thing about the Pryce incident is that, although a bad decision and a worse outcome, at least they were headed to help a driver whose car was on fire and he had yet to get out.
I wondered if this story would spring memories of Glacier Girl for anyone else as I was scrolling through pictures.
Can I take odds on if the New Job=New Car letter author will get to 65 and realize that they can’t retire on Social Security income alone, but that there was “nothing they could do” to save more during their working career?
The U-2 was shot down. It didn’t (and couldn’t) bomb anything.
My bad, that comment was intended for Jayden, I just failed in selecting the correct reply button.
By the way, huge kudos for correctly noting that the Taurus was originally offered with a 5-speed. The oft forgotten/ignored MT-5 trim was only offered with the base 2.5L HSC 4cyl similar to what was in the Tempo. By all accounts, the 88hp edition was not a mover (in speed or sales), despite getting to help it through…
The new SHO, although a much stronger performer than this one (it has 25 years on this one afterall so it will be more comfy and safer to boot) is just not the same car. It is much too bulky and no option to row your own. As much as it seems silly to say Taurus and Driver’s Car in the same sentence, the original SHO…
I owned a pretty beat on ‘92 SHO that I bought for $750 that I drove pretty hard for a couple years before something gave up that I couldn’t figure out, but it wouldn’t make any power. I still think about rebuying one although I admit I probably never will.
I will grant that it was 10 years ago so inflation and all that, but I recently scrapped a 2003 Taurus at 280k miles that I bought in 2009 for $4k with 130-odd thousand miles. Original drivetrain. So seeing 140k described as high mileage had me laughing a bit.
World’s carriest rust.
There is one of these signs in Pittsburgh. Except it is absolutely useless because it isn’t timed right. Northbound 51 at Wabash. I assume it is there because the light is on the other side of a small overpass. Except the “Red Light Ahead” sign that is posted a solid 1/4 mile back from the light doesn’t start flashing…
I am surprised by their claim that their speedos are calibrated conservatively. So if it says you are going 37, you are actually above 37.5. Wouldn't that be the opposite of what you want? I look forward to having someone cite this statement for a defense of a speeding ticket.
It is a situational thing, not a one size fits all rule, and keeping to the right half of the lane (you generally want to ride where vehicle tires go anyway, less debris) does not mean they should be riding the lane line or pushed onto the shoulder. Being too far over encourages unsafe passes.
Was with you for the first half but assumed the second half was going to be about better driver awareness. Why should ’bikers and cyclists’ (which are the same, right, unless you mean motorcycles which would be even more bizarre) keep to the edge which is statistically more dangerous for them?
Dropped the entire front subframe, engine/trans and all, out the bottom of a 94 Taurus SHO using only my trusty 100pc Craftsman mechanics tool set, the spare tire jack and whatever pieces of 2x4, concrete block and bricks that I could find.
In what way is Tesla Model S a luxury car? Compared across the various price points, they aren’t competitive at all.
How will they send requested pictures through a phone call?