Contract personnel are not “already paid” They have to submit timesheets for their hours to their Contract Officer who approves it and passes it along to the correct disbursing office. Both Contract Officer and disbursing office may both be closed in a shutdown, it will vary by agency. Even if they are open, funds may…

‘22 Hybrid. It has been great, 41mpg since I bought it, but I fell victim to the “no start/no juice” problem. Fault in the wiring from the 12v battery under the rear seat to the engine compartment. Dealer took three weeks to finally get around to fixing it.

South of the Border - As desolate as our real southern border is active. I stopped once, just for the novelty. Did they once have strip joint there?

Why would anyone pay for internet-related services like maps and weather? That’s what cell phones are for and they generally have faster service. (How many cars have 5G?) I suppose if you needed a hotspot to keep all the kiddies happy...

Corvette Summer 2, coming soon!

Beat me to it by 10 minutes!

Tropical Rock. The recently late, great Jimmy Buffett and the hundreds of followers in his wake. Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown, Donny Brewer, Sunny Jim White, Jerry Diaz, The Boat Drunks, Tropoholics, I could go on and on. Radio Margaritaville, No Shoes Radio, Radio Trop Rock, Shore Life Radio, Radio A1A...

Pinzgauer 6x6 didn’t make the list? Bump some fictional vehicles for something you could actually buy!

Jalopnik “editors” strike again. The picture accompanying the entry for “SEDANS” is a hatchback Focus. 

Do you have a “Always Sunny” conspiracy board in your office? Put this up there with the Stout, the Corolla-based pickup and a BEV-4WD Maverick.

I did. Wow that is bad. And wait until it winds up in the hands of owners who can’t keep their stainless-steel fridge clean!

Please correct your headline, it’s “San Francisco”

Apple Boardroom: “we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures”

Ford never “made” the Transit Connect in the US, they were manufactured in Turkey or Spain. The very first line of the story is wrong!

Carolina Squat 

I will see if I can find the info, but the Capps story is not so simple. The driver repeatedly ignored warning lights and messages, added oil to an obviously smoking engine and drove it long past the time a reasonable owner would have pulled over and called AAA.

This happens often in DC. The sports teams have paid to keep certain stations and lines open for playoff games and promoters have done it for other events. And yes, the stations on the lines kept open only allow passengers to board at the stations near the venue. Straight line only, no transfers. It allows them to…

I really hoped the extendable bed of the Santa Cruz concept would make it into production, but that, like the 2-door cabin, was only a pipe dream!

‘22 Maverick XLT Lariat, 5k trade-in, $829 for 36 months at 0%. Can’t beat free money!

A Scion iQ was my daily for 8+ years and I even drove it on road trips from VA to the midwest and Florida! But even I have to say NOPE to this one! Not for the lack of airbags and such, it’s just too damn short! The iQ and my Festiva before that were squirrely enough on the highway, but at least they had room for a…