I assume you meant the unvaccinated?
I assume you meant the unvaccinated?
I wonder if it’s a shit ton of idling...? Even that seems massively excessive - unless he never, ever, turns it off.
FINALLY. someone gets it. Colorado has had the positive traction laws for almost 10 years now. Yeah, I buy AWD (and finally moved to where AWD + snow is pretty much a requirement) - because I ain’t messing around with chains.
All depends on where you are :-/ Here, winter can be January-March, or September-May. Tends to lean more towards the latter - but you’re gonna have a LOT of 80 degree days just before 1+ ft of snow... so it tends to kill snow tires. They made those new “almost-snow” all-seasons for people that live in places like…
You own 24 4x4 Jeeps, and you picked a 1960's RWD Valiant as a winter car. Only you David, only you.
Eh. I averaged 22mpg. Coming from, in the past, a ZL1 camaro (LOL 16 up or down hill), Grand Wagoneer (11 mpg, no matter WHAT you did), a Firebird formula track prepped (uh... I don’t remember), and a modded GTI (3o on the highway. 15 ... not). It’s... yeah. Not THAT bad. But not amazing. I do 21 in an M550 now.
I’d have gone for the Genesis (I still want one with the turbo 4 and the manual), but RWD. Where I live, the AWD is a requirement :( And now, finding them with the 4 and a stick is, well, impossible. Totally impossible.
With the headlights off at night.
There was a window in the mid 2010's where CPO G37s were the bargain daily driver. You could easily pick up a low-mileage, excellent condition one for mid-low 20's, and drive the wheels off of it (since maintenance on them is pretty darned cheap). By the latter portion of the 10's though, they were getting pretty…
Well... I guess it IS called a “Sawzall,” not a “sawzmostshit...” This is fixable...
Ditto. I’m REALLY hoping that one of the BEV will be at the right price - so I can get a BEV daily, and then debate swapping the ZL1 for one last ICE sports car. But if not... then the ZL1 will be the last sports car (not a bad one!), and the daily will be the last ICE (and it’ll still be fun!).
I can understand that. Where I live, AWD and snow tires (or snow-adjacent) are a requirement... so the Supra is a 3-month toy (June/July/August). I’d consider it for the daily otherwise, but... yeah. Don’t get me wrong - I’d rather it had a stick, but I’d buy it with the ZF8 (because whatever they sacrificed to…
I don’t even mind the lack of manual. I’ve strongly considered it - especially as a gift to myself as I wrapped up an executive masters program... But, at the end of the day, I realized I’m buying ONE last ICE car new(ish)... and it’ll be a final daily, unless the right BEVs are in my price point when that time comes…
Hell, till they 1, put a yoke in it, and 2, set the price to absurdium levels, I wanted a Tesla roadster. I’m all for the light EV with limited range for a toy - I’ll find a way to charge dammit! And the stick. Someone makes one with a stick and I’ll buy it, dammit. Screw the price.
That supra - yes. That. Toyota even HAS good TT V6s! But no - only the NA one for the IS/RC... sigh. Also agreed on that stupid radar fill. Bah. Cheap!
Worst I’ve done was 32mpg on a single trip in the bay area (ish, highways back from Palo Alto). There’d been a flood back home, work buddy and I got the next flight out, threw the bags in the back of the rental, and I put the hammer down. Set a record getting to the airport, and a record on worst mileage in a prius…
Oh I find the German undertones of the new Supra hilarious - that’s for sure. I think it’s the rear of the car that does it for me - something about that reminds me of the original, in some weird way, and makes it click - no bloody idea ~how~, mind you again - but it does. I do wish, like you, that an updated RC had…
Significant design departures (at least for later generations), upgraded engines (depending on what comes for the Type-S this may be the same this time around), and, well, media and the time. That’s a point against nostalgia in general, by the way - there are, as you point out, a hell of a lot of cars in that class…
This. That’s a must have feature for me.
I grew up right in that era. For me, at least, it was the “more fun car” that I could actually realistically ~afford~. A GS-R was theoretically within reach, if I wanted one, and more fun than a base civic/etc - while the E46 M3, Z06 C5, etc were seemingly far out of reach (but still distantly possible compared to the…