A 15 year drought caused by climate change and reduced snowpack paired with 100 years of badly executed forest management is the reason for the fires. Lightning, gender reveals, cigarettes, fire works, sparking equipment and powerline contact is just what ignites it.

This thing is fantastic looking! It has the vibe of a Twingo which was a truly lovely little car. With any luck, I will get to experience the joy and mediocrity of the Casper as a rental car someday.

They made it, and it’s a thing you can already buy. It does not seem to be the death machine you fear it is.

You are certainly right about the sensors. Getting those things recalibrated after a fender bender can run into the 1000s. As for the rest of it? It’s not particularly failure prone and not hard to replace when they do fail. Most people are only actually touching their screens a few times a trip, and having an ECU…

I really feel the same way. There are cars of the late 90s and early 2000s that hit the sweet spot for me between “dailyability” and unhampered fun. I’m finding myself daydreaming about fairly pedestrian cars of yesteryear simply because everything has gotten so bloated and complicated.

I can see this being wonderful in European and Eastern US cities where off street parking can be in almost comically inconvenient places. Getting home from a long day and just letting BMW take the wheel seems pretty appealing.

Older cars can be wonderful to drive because of their more direct connection to the driver, wonderful to work on for their simplicity and wonderful to sit in for the beauty, smells and sounds.

Seems pretty darn likely that it will come. I’m personally holding out for the inevitable PHEV Tacoma.

Something along those lines. Jeep seems to be pretty successful with the Wrangler 4xe and I hope it gives the competition a nudge.

The chip shortage is crazy, and it’s certainly a frustrating time to be making consumer electronics, but that doesn’t mean Sony doesn’t have some control. They owe it to their customers to put a better queue in place, limit order quantities and manage how retailers do the same.

• Real world experience with gas mileage driving like a Jalop

As gas prices go past $4 again and the west coast continues to burn, I’m having a harder time imagining buying something that isn’t a hybrid or EV for my next truck.

Not a chance. Riding out the heavy rain, snow, hail and extreme heat in the pacific northwest on the ground took the fun out of camping and required hours of cleaning and drying after every trip. Having a roof top tent made bad weather a mild inconvenience instead of a trip killer. Most importantly, it keeps my…

This still feels like a half measure, and they are leaving money on the table. They should put together a package for the TRD-Pro curious that includes more power, real skid plates and a suspension package that can take real abuse. Throw in a dust snorkel, Prinsu rack, method wheels and an aux switch panel for good…

I need to replace my partners Fiat 500 that is living on borrowed time, and this will go pretty high on the list if range and price are within reason. After driving 20 year old Prii with 300k miles, it is clear to me that Toyota does not fuck around when they bring a new technology to market.

They’ll fix it with an XT version that has more HP and a range of 67 miles.

As the previous owner of two Subarus that experienced catastrophic head gasket failure, I think the jokes are still well deserved, even if they have since resolved the issue. Having a persistent, catastrophic engine failure plague multiple generations of cars should be a shame Subaru carries and remembers for…

It will depends on how “outdoors” you are talking about. The parking lots at Lake Tahoe, Whistler, Stowe and Vail are chock full of AWD Teslas, and with the right tires, they are a joy to drive in the snow. They do fine on gravel as well, and I see plenty of them at trail heads.

Particularly with Subarus. My 2005 Legacy would lose the headlight fuses if I hit the “search” button on the radio. I regularly drive a 2015 CrossTrek which had its radio unceremoniously brick itself when two windows were lowered at the same time.

This is pure idiocy and completely defeats the appeal of vinyl. People listen to vinyl for the warm, analog sound. If you’re going to send that sound via bluetooth, skip two steps and do it from your phone.

This is pure idiocy and completely defeats the appeal of vinyl. People listen to vinyl for the warm, analog sound.…