He’s referring to “choke” as the venturi housing wherein the choke resides. I would say the US term of “barrel” is more accurate in that it is referring to the housing as a whole versus one (less important) part of it. What would be called a twin-choke carb in the UK is a 2-barrel in the US.

Antiroll bars are called…

At least in the US, the variety of styles available for sinks is so immense that I would be shocked if a decent match for any imaginable decor wasn’t available. Of course, price is also quite variable. Plus, the water gets mixed in the faucet, which can be a separate unit of varying preferred size likely available in…

Just in time for the Z to pummel it.

In MA and maybe other states, you can elect to transfer your previous car’s plates to the new one and you have 10 or maybe it’s 14 days to register the new vehicle to those plates. In the interim, you can definitely get 550 miles in there. 

The Mazda one is definitely an improvement.

My Camry had a weird cylindrical shift knob (replaced it with a 2" wood knob) that was terrible to use. Was it something like that?

At only 180k miles, my ST cracked its head in September (although it still drove fine minus the rear-visibility-obscuring smoke screen until it warmed up) and nobody around wanted to do an engine swap in anything resembling a reasonable timeframe, so I figured that door was closed and it was time to move on (a hard…

While I never tried it and it likely varies by state, there’s always the option to register it yourself. If it’s like MA, he could have bought it and transferred his plates from his previous vehicle to the Bronco and he’d have 10 days to register it.

Yup, and it’s likely not the weight that’s dropping his mph, but the horrendous aero.

It has the kind of styling that certain people who aren’t cool think looks cool, though I guess in comparison to the Ecosport and Trax, it does qualify. I can’t believe those two POS were lower on owner regret, though I guess the kind of person who would buy those without any kind of styling to lure in someone with…

While I’m sure I would be giving too much credit for intention, there is something to weight and a smoother ride in a vehicle with a larger difference between curb and gross vehicle weight. If you have to tune a suspension to handle a difference of, say, 800 lbs., that task is easier if that range is a smaller…

No, I just bought this in November because my previous car’s head cracked and it was the cheapest not-half-broken car on the market, probably because it’s a manual. I could almost see some of my neighbors sending me a similar letter if they could see the car from their property.

This right here! Zoning should force them to have a larger area so that their trashy, littering junkies (also talking about Dunkins) too stupid to buy a $30 coffee maker with a timer on it don’t block traffic on the major roads they are often located on.

It’s like that for a lot of things: it’s a luxury in that it costs more and delivers less for the increased cost beyond maybe a positive emotional response. A Corolla isn’t luxury, but an equivalent-sized-and-function car that costs twice as much is. Maybe it has a bigger engine or better interior or endless array of…

I think luxury is more “costs more than cheaper size and purpose equivalent” and I’d maybe add “anything that is impractical in comparison to other offerings in its price point or beyond” than any kind of features. It certainly has nothing to do with reliability and sometimes doesn’t seem to consider build quality.

Test drove my GR86 yesterday. I think it had warmed up to 16 F by then. Loved it on the simple drive, but not the best time to buy a sports car. Came about 2 months early, so I’m keeping the old Camry at least for the winter. No markup!

All of this seconded!

Sure, longer life, but it it worth such a price?

Plus, what is Rolls-Royce’s record production, the equivalent of the weekly production of a 3-series? Prioritizing RR would barely be a blip on overall parent company production, anyway.

Neutral: comfortable seat, stereo with a USB input, heat, and A/C. Sunroof is great, but the absence isn’t a deal breaker. Would pay more to pretty much have none of the rest of the ever-lengthening list of annoying crap they jam in modern cars, including any BS driver “aids” beyond ABS and definitely no electronic…