No love for the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) ???

RE: Maintenance, for some of us that’s a big part of the fun. Have an old Mustang in the garage ... always fiddling with something on it. Carb, timing ... all that stuff is super easy. If it’s broke or needs adjusting you can probably get to it easily, generally you can fix it with some combination of a crescent…

The screen doesn’t control my HVAC, heated seats, defroster or audio volume. I have a 7 or 8 inch touchscreen that will 99% of the time be running Android Auto doing either navigation or Spotify ... all voice controlled. Rest are nice chunky physical buttons/knobs.

You think using Android Auto amounts to distracted driving? If that’s the case the following would be distracted driving as well...

Find a gas station with “Recreation Fuel” in your area. I think the sire is puregas.org or something like that. Rec Fuel is what I put in my ‘66 that’s carb’d. 91 octane, no ethanol ... it REALLY helped out.

You just perfectly described what I’d implement if I was king of the world. We could start off even easier by simply making the interest on student loans reflect the probability of repayment with a degree in that field. Going in to business school? STEM? Medicine? Pretty low rate. Fine arts? That’s a riskier…

You just perfectly described what I’d implement if I was king of the world. We could start off even easier by simply making the interest on student loans reflect the probability of repayment with a degree in that field. Going in to business school? STEM? Medicine? Pretty low rate. Fine arts? That’s a riskier…

... worked out the kinks ...

For my usecase 1 pure EV and 1 PHEV truck is ideal. Pure EV for around town and near (100-ish miles away) tripe ... PHEV truck for other commuter and long-range (we do lots of 500 mile 1-way trips ... somtimes hauling a trailer).

I’m convinced that the production of EV’s can be made as clean or cleaner than anything else we build, and there are obvious reasons why centralized power generation (regardless of source) can be made an order of magnitude cleaner than having each and every car out there running its own engine.

Depending on how your local electricity is generated, they may be literally rolling coal ... indirectly.

Gatekeeping much?

As a former Wrangler owner, I’m of the opinion the primary benefits for anyone that doesn’t go to Moab are this ...

Profit driven enterprises should only exist in markets where competition and choice naturally exist. Everything else should be regulated to the 9's.

I drive one so I can vacuum the back floorboard with my Roomba. Anything else is too small for that.

First time my kids rode in out ‘66 my daughter started to panic when she only had a lap belt. Don’t crush my cool old stuff though!

The vast majority of those other nations you refer to also tax fuel much more heavily than we do ... incentivizing buying fuel efficient cars. Amazingly, the consumers in those countries buy smaller more fuel efficient cars!  Since the consumer want smaller cars to save at the pump, automakers sell them AND actually…

I’m not anti-regulations by any means. Simply saying influence needs to be applied on both sides of the equation. If customers had a reason to want a fuel efficient vehicle ... such as high gas prices ... they would value fuel efficiency enough to actually pay for it. Rather than the current setup where we attempt to…

... and Ford had the Escape Hybrid back in ‘08 or so. Not 40mpg, but that was 11 years ago. The sales mix on that one was very low. Vast majority got the gas version because hybrid was a significant premium. If the RAV4 carries a significant price premium, I’d guess the mix will be low. If the price is about the same,…

The way I figure, you should not take a loan for longer than you realistically will own the car and you should put down enough to never be underwater.