WRX engines blow immediately upon purchase, ATS transmissions have issues (CR black list), High trim Q50 are blowing engines.  Sometimes you need a sweet handling car that just WORDS every day, every time you start it.

It’s not just for people with lousy insurance rates. Sometimes they’re lousy because of where you live. Insurance companies maximize premiums in affluent neighborhoods as a hidden factor behind driving record. Add this to the fact that I live in the Dallas area, and we have some of the highest insurance rates in the…

NP, I say.

I got swept up in the natural gas craze in Utah when gas was briefly $4 a gallon about eight or nine years ago. At the time, CNG stations were plentiful, and only 64 cents a gallon. I commuted almost 18k miles a year, so for the current price of gas, it would make the payment. So I purchased my overpriced 2009 olive…