Yes, other motorists are terrifying and it’s only getting worse. Traffic fatalities are way up despite fewer road miles traveled. Anecdotally, the only accidents I’ve ever been involved in were getting hit from the rear by distracted or inattentive drivers. In my almost thirty years of driving, it has happened three…

I just bought a Switch last month.  I honestly forgot it was that old (2017!?) because it still feels like a new product in terms of retail scarcity (and online price gouging).  

Exactly. I had that Cavalier over ten years, and I think I put about 120K miles on it. It was not an exciting car, but it never broke or needed anything other than basic wear/maintenance stuff. I sold it cheap to my brother-in-law and it lived on a few more years until he totaled it in a wreck.

Back in the year 2000, I was shopping for my first new car to commute to college. I was looking mostly at two door economy cars from several brands, Chevrolet Cavalier, Honda Civic, Hyundai Accent, etc. I saw an ad in the paper for a Kia, the model I no longer recall, maybe Sephia (?). It advertised a price that was…

Sure, it’s cool, but it ain’t no Jeap.  The Fourd boys won’t touch it either.

I had a comically bad experience at a KIA dealership around the year 2000.  So bad that I was shocked that location managed sell any cars, ever.  I have not been back to a dealership for that brand since, but I was hoping they had improved because their products have started catching my eye over the last couple of…

Neutral: The pandemic is the least of our concerns as America may really and truly die if Trump is appointed president in January 2021 despite having lost the election*. I think pundits saying it can’t happen are in denial. The “system” may still “work” but I don’t think that should be taken for granted anymore. 

*(Trum…

Sure, some people haven’t saved as the should in every generation, but there are also many who have. I am Gen X and believe I am on track. I also personally know millennials who are contributing the statutory maximum to their 401K every year. (wow! I wasn’t at their age..)   There is little excuse for professionals of…

Cameras are a supplement, not a substitute, for your own eyes. Anybody who has used any automobile, or technology device for that matter, knows that glitches and failures are inevitable.

I hate to agree, but I do. I have long been a manual diehard. Every new car I have ever purchased has been a manual, including my wife’s car as recently as 2017. But, I’ve come to accept that many new automatic transmissions aren’t bad. Also, the insistence on manuals has been locking me out of some models and options…

... and loudly cry victim.

To answer this bad faith argument... in my state, the teacher’s union has already been broken by a “right to work” law and an earlier law that bars them specifically from striking under any circumstances. It is a union in name only and wields no power. Why is the police union exempt from those “reforms”? If you were…

... and it’s earning him a few bucks.  That’s gotta sting for all the dudes down at the comedy castle on open mic nights.

Another report from MI: Trump supporters are loud, proud,and in your face. (especially in rural areas)  I have never seen such boisterous support for any political candidate in my lifetime. They will not stop while there is any chance white power will be diluted by democracy. Things will continue to be ugly and I…

“One is that everything is already “equal”, which they follow with the idea that any time people of color gain something, it means eventually white people will lose something.”

I can’t wait to see these on the local bike paths.

/sarcasm

So let’s look at this objectively by the perpetrators own arguments... If a citizen of Georgia decides the McMichaels did something wrong here, they can take it upon themselves to pursue them, deliver orders to them at gunpoint under the guise of a citizen’s arrest, then kill them if they resist. All good, right? Does…

GKIII is right about this... Yes, it is unfair. Yes, the dealership is in the wrong. Yes, the men should have been fired, not her. However, the point some of you are missing is that in an at-will employment state, like Indiana in this case, you don’t really have any job security. You don’t have the rights you think…

Why not both?

I have been driving a 2016 Crosstrek I purchased new that year. It’s not a fast car, but it doesn’t feel ponderously slow either. The power is absolutely adequate and I would argue suites the nature of the vehicle. Of course, mine is a manual. I would not be shocked to learn the CVT/autothing is less satisfying to…