We celebrate Toyotathon in our household.

Not sure where you live, but there might be a local Pontiac (POCI) club. National show this year is on Oklahoma. In July. 

Our other family car was a Pontiac Grand Prix - 70's boat version. It was not that much better in the back. The Porsche was certainly cooler, and Mom *hated* driving the Poncho. She wrecked it when it was brand new, and my stepfather never entirely forgave her (it was his first-ever new car), not quite badly enough to…

Wow, and I thought our family of 5 was real cozy in a Volvo 240 wagon.

I drove a nearly new 2014 Focus hatch to SC from Ohio once, and tried to give it back to the Enterprise in Myrtle Beach. Said there was clearly something wrong with the transmission - it felt dangerous to drive. They told me they all drove like that and refused to give me something different. The Enterprise back home…

We took family road trips in my mother’s 911 40 years ago as a family of four. It was fine. Not particularly comfortable for my brother and I in the back, but we made it to grandma’s house just fine.

Most people overpack.

They’re either scrap or their owners are holding onto them like grim death. It didn’t help that Ford made a bone-headed decision to use a dry clutch DCT in their two smallest cars. A lot of those cars were taken off the road much earlier than normal because of the explodey DCT. Chrysler was too late with the Dart, and…

Agreed. It is amazing how people are happy paying $50K for a new vehicle (as long as monthly payment fits) and then complain about paying an extra $1-2/gallon for gas. If you can’t fit an extra $500-1000 in your yearly budget to cover higher fuel payments, you really can’t afford the payments on the vehicle either.
I…

Yeah, I’m not sure the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has earned Dolly Parton.

It’s the “good times will never end” of low gas prices that happens every decade or so. I got premium for less than a dollar in the late 90s and it regularly stayed between $1-2 on average and creeped up to $4-6 in 2008. It’s how you got V10 Ford Excursions with 10mpg and no one blinked. Then the small car boom in…

This! My employer moved me to permanent remote work at the end of 2020 and it has been a godsend as far as saving money. Wear and tear on the car is reduced as are gasoline costs and I don’t have the urge to eat at restaurants or go to the store on my lunch break since I’m not working downtown. I am beyond …

I am actually back in the office since late Feb, 2020. Its the most bizarre experience. I had forgotten how to get here. All of my stuff is STILL at my desk like it was 2 years ago. Luckily.... we have been told we can continue working from home. We just came in to actually see each other for a day. The commute is....…

My ‘15 LEAF has me feeling pretty good (dare I say even a bit smug?) about this latest hike, like it did with the shortages not too long ago as well.

But technically, no, the Tesla Autopilot system does not “require” you to be constantly vigilant. It will continue to blast you down the highway if you’re only half paying attention

For a second, I took this as a fire under my ass to buy an electric car. I have a newer car that I can make some money on in the trade, I’ve already got a 100 amp 240 outlet in the garage, I could use the rebate to offset next year’s tax bill—overall an electric car is starting to make more sense.

Would’ve been nice of Biden made a plea for employers to continue/revert back to remote working. Not having to commute can help keep prices at bay - maybe even drive them down - just like in 2020. Savings all around!

My parents are looking at a Niro plug in hybrid to replace my mother’s conventional ICE CR-V. The Niro’s 26 mile EV only range is a little disappointing, but for most of their trips it will be enough to not need the gas engine. They do frequent short runs to daycare and school for grandchild retrieval, and over the…

I’m excited for the hybrid model, especially if it pulls the powertrain from the RAV-4 Prime. Take the engine out of Toyota’s second-fastest model, massaged by Mazda in a vaguely wagon-ish body? Sold!

There’s no reason whatsoever that Mazda should release a RWD/I6 sedan in this market, at least not from a business-sense standpoint. That arrangement will likely see the light of day in the upcoming CX-90 (the CX-9's replacement).