Reliability, mostly. I traded in my 2009 Lexus IS and needed something a bit bigger to transport growing kids and all of their sports equipment. I ended up with a new 2024 Lexus RX350. It’s not fast or flashy, but it will last forever and get me there in complete comfort.

I don’t know about now, but back when I was in college in the early 2000s, we were still learning to code in FORTRAN in my early engineering classes.

SN29 says, “NOT TODAY!”

No. He said they are struggling to understand a single issue with the car on tracks where bumps and kerbs affect the race line. Car design is an exercise in compromises. The task is for them to understand what changes can be made to better the car on street circuits without giving back too much of their dominance on…

I am a big fan of Dune and loved the first one, but this will be my first time seeing Dune 2.

Free speech means speech free from GOVERNMENT interference. It doesn’t require a private business to allow any speech it disapproves of on its site.

I was recently in a friend’s Model 3 and I couldn’t help but be struck by how cheap the interior looked and felt. I know it is supposed to be minimalistic, but it seemed low rent in practice. It felt like an appliance. My Lexus runs circles around it as a nice place to sit.

Also, unless you have an active subscription, you usually aren’t getting up to date traffic information. Give me CarPlay and Waze over any factory nav system.

Had those for a while myself. Replaced them with Conti DWS and never looked back after that. As you noted, if inclement weather hit, the Bridgestones weren’t great.

Yep. Had a Lexis IS with factory tires that only lasted about 20k miles.

She won’t win. The biggest question in this lawsuit isn’t whether Disney will win (they will), but whether her claims can even survive past the motion to dismiss stage. They are that bad.

That’s typically due to location tracking settings. Your coworker bought the home gym and then both of your phones were in close proximity to your coworker’s phone, suggesting a relationship. Then the home gym company uses that data to target people who are lose to their customer, reasoning that they might be talking…

My new Lexus takes that into account. There are times when sitting at the light that it will show a message that the start/stop system has been temporarily disabled so that it can meet the needs of the climate control system.

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Honestly, Amazon’s streaming options are so weak that the ads don’t really bother me. I just don’t watch enough on Prime to care about it.

I bet if you calculated the overall emissions saved from Toyota’s hybrids across their lineup to any other manufacturer’s EV lineup, the results would be pretty interesting.

There was never going to be a serious challenge to a sitting president.

No. Biden chose to keep his name off the ballot in order to honor the decision of the DNC that states that SC will be the first nominating contest this year. NH is violating the order and cannot award any delegates because of it. Why spend resources there, when it doesn’t count?

The Democratic National Committee reorganized its primary cycle to boost South Carolina—where Biden enjoyed a decisive victory in the last primary—and demote New Hampshire, where Biden came in fifth in 2020. The DNC marks South Carolina’s Feb. 3 election as the first officially sanctioned primary, meaning Biden’s…

You’d think that, but the plug-in hybrid variant of the Lexus RX (which would probably be this things closest competitor) starts at 70k.