You got to sing with Prince? That’s awesome in the truest sense of the word.

I would hope he’d bellyache about a deal with Cobain’s estate. Not only would the guy have absolutely hated that, but he’s long dead and has no ability to actually endorse anything if he wanted to, making it even more transparently cynical a marketing ploy.

I’m the north of Boston area, but I don’t doubt there are large regional variations. Even in different towns around here, it varies. Honda Accords and Civics, for instance, are generally driven by normal people, but in some places, (primarily used models) are apparently driven exclusively by people who are in the act…

No, that’s the weird thing—I don’t see RAV4 drivers being especially bad. They seem entirely normal in their share of morons to competent people. There are other cars that sell in large numbers, too, but they don’t stand out in the same way. I think most of it is down to the type of people those vehicles appeal to,…

Too late to edit my novel-length response: My argument is really more for the Maverick as it looks to have a little better utility and I’m still suspicious of Hyundai. 

If the price does end up in the low 20s, that would also be a lot of vehicle for the price, especially when the low end of the market is being killed off.

This would more or less be my preference, as well—a TC that’s rated to tow a modest amount, but one of these small pickups would probably do almost as well.

I’ve done this—they are expensive for the time you get and you have to get there really early before they’re out. Budget rentals or someone is a better idea, though, as they’re possibly cheaper, you can schedule it, and if you’re, say, hauling a demolished deck to the dump, you can do it in two trips with a box truck…

Yeah, the one that still has enough of a following that it’s used prices are laughably high because the niche is still larger—and unfulfilled—than the number out there.

I don’t think seating width is a good metric without factoring in that doors are bank-vault thick now for side impact reasons. My early ‘80s Subarus were small cars, but I had far more useful interior seating space per passenger than even the large vehicles today. Of course, the doors were thinner than a ream of paper…

Back seats are covered cargo space and cargo covers make for covered cargo space.

I’d be interested. I hate big trucks, hate how they drive, hate the fuel use, won’t pay the absurd prices they want for even a vehicle that I like, never mind something I don’t. Why would I prefer this to a CUV? I can stand bikes up in the back in bed racks a lot easier than messing with taking them apart to fit…

I don’t know if the CR-V mention was just a random boring car pick or specifically chosen, but you chose well as they are the single worst drivers around me—worse than Prius, Camry, and Corolla drivers. I don’t know what it is about them as Toyota owns nearly every category for having the worst drivers except for the…

This is how I taught myself and anyone else. And you don’t need a modern car to do it as my early 80s Subarus were carbed and had no problem rolling off the line smoothly without any throttle (strong bottom end, though).

What I’ve heard from most people is that they’re afraid of crashing my car and “grinding gears”…

Good point. If you need to huff it upstairs or something, it definitely matters. It’s bad enough being awkward with lots of protruding things to catch and bang into stuff without having the weight.

Whatever position, don’t lock the thumbs inside the rim—it’s not just for airbags, but any event that could cause the wheel to suddenly, violently jerk.

I think it was pretty common on old English roadsters. I always thought it was a good idea, but I’ve never put one on. 

I’m building one of these now. I didn’t like that dinky torque flange thing that’s supposed to just bite into the BB and hold, so I made my own torque arm that extends down the chain stay out of 1/8 aluminum. I’m shaping it like a sea serpent so it will be ugly with style.

I was into the ‘80s by the time I learned to ride, but I once broke the handlebars on some cheap 24" bike a distance from home (funny enough, I built a few bikes from garbage-day-scavenged parts and none of them tried to kill me, but my mother tried to get me a safer new bike and . . . well new doesn’t mean safe). I…

I’m building an ebike now and, while it’s a bigger than average sized lifepo battery, it’s about 25 lbs and there’s another 10-15 for the motor and such. No way this thing is under 40 even if it’s made of plastic. The thing with weight on bicycles is given way too much . . . weight outside of competition. I blame the…