It’s only $400 in dealer fees. MSRP plus destination and “freight surcharge” are $3600. Add in some dealer fees and sales tax and you’re well over $4000. For a bike that costs $2000 (pre-tax) in Latin America.

Following the Navi for which dealers were asking literally FOUR TIMES the price it sold for in India, we have another overpriced Honda with 70s tech and low build quality originally intended for the developing world.

Yeah, you’re not missing anything. You can walk right back through immigration and into the Netherlands if you don’t get on your flight out.

You can totally just go right back through immigration and leave with a fresh new admission stamp. People do it literally every day when flights are cancelled. Schiphol has nowhere good to sleep because no one in their right mind would stay in the international transit area.

The Rogue is popular for one reason: Nissan USA is basically a subprime lender that happens to run a couple car factories.

You “need” a new picture every 12 years but the license remains valid until the expiration date even if you don’t get one—the only punishment is that you can’t order duplicates online.

“impressive 32 mpg combined fuel economy for the FWD model”

There’s a huge aftermarket for these in India. If you can get the suppliers to ship to the U.S. you should be set. I’ve had mixed results with that—Bajaj scooter parts were never an issue just to order online but parts for Hero or TVS bikes I’ve had to pay someone in India to buy them and mail.

Why so expensive?

The whole front area under the fuel tank is a storage “box”. At least on the Indian-market model, the covers can also be removed to carry bigger things.

Chains will get you anywhere you want to go at < 25 mph in places where they’re not illegal. They’re great for people who live in Sacramento and drive to the mountains in the winter.

They all leave the factory unstudded.

For 95% of the journey I agree with you, but when you park on the street in Wisconsin the heated seats are pretty nice for the few minutes it takes for the heat to really get going.

I drove nearly 100,000 miles a year in the late ‘00s. Satellite radio was worth every cent of the $300 lifetime subscription.

This looks like the Touratech catalog puked on it.

Having spent over a decade living in the Rocky Mountains, the advice that you should never use 85 octane in cars that call for 87-octane regular is pretty far up there. It’s so popular it even got a mention here on Jalopnik.

So, in addition to having done this a couple times, I used to work for Customs and Border Protection. My autograph is on more entry paperwork than I’d like to admit.

The downside of the early oilhead is that the weird, super-long throttle cable is more difficult to adjust and wears out more easily. The upside is that it’s much cheaper and easier to replace than the newer design with three cables and a distribution box and the ‘choke’ cable is less likely to jam.

Speaking of cables,…

The F-701 is a great pen, but the metal refill (allegedly so all parts are metal detectable) that comes in it from the factory sucks.

The F-701 is a great pen, but the metal refill (allegedly so all parts are metal detectable) that comes in it from…

I refused a car at SMF once that smelled like cannabis smoke.