Sometimes the extra complexity necessitates the use of a mechanic.    My 4 year old Mercedes recently had the battery replaced.   Cheap and easy to do for most cars,  but for a Mercedes you have to diagnose whether the battery or the auxiliary battery is what needs replacing.   Then if you do just replace the…

On a side note,  I have advocated for years that it should be a legal requirement that removable hitches should be taken off when not in use.  It's just extra weight that causes extra damage in a collision.   I've had trucks back into my vehicle twice now. 

The concept is clearly profitable,  but the owners are keeping the profits for themselves instead of allowing the business to show the profit. 

This was exactly how I knew I should go ahead and purchase the GLC300 at the end of it's lease:  the local Toyota dealership offered to pay the residual on it to get it from me, no strings attached.   Had I turned it in I would have been on the hook for going 10k miles over and plenty of scratches,  probably a new…

I picked up one of these back when the Covid shutdown started for about this same price from Amazon. I would say it’s been pretty solid for the price. It doesn’t rotate to portrait but it tilts up and down and can be raised or lowered.

I picked up one of these back when the Covid shutdown started for about this same price from Amazon. I would say…

Used car dealers are hungry for inventory right now. My wife’s GLC300 lease is up in a couple months, and I’m over on miles by about 10k, plus other issues Mercedes would certainly charge me for if I turn it in, but the local Toyota dealer offered me what I owe on it right now no strings attached. I almost sold it to…

These days it would just be so much easier to make a printed trunk wrap that shows a trunk full of luggage.  

That was really the thing that set Infiniti apart before,  they didn't have CVT transmissions.  Now the QX50 has one, and the QX30 before that.   If all their vehicles end up with CVTs they might as well hang it up. 

I actually had a 1985 Camry (5 speed manual) with about this many miles that I sold for $300 back in y2k. These things apparently have appreciated since then.

For me,  I would only consider it if I am unable to find a used Stinger GT2 which is very likely due to how rare they are in the used market. That's pretty much the only Kia I would consider buying. 

I used to think the Lexus IS300 stood for 3.0 liter inline six, then they came out with a second generation with V6s. All naming schemes similarly went to hell around the same time or not much later.

Not that my intention is to take away from this,  but Sirius XM is also streaming for free for 90 days using the app,  for relief of your quarantine boredom blues. 

Not that my intention is to take away from this,  but Sirius XM is also streaming for free for 90 days using the…

Say what you want about cars, trucks, or SUV’s but I for one will never buy any vehicle that stamps their brand giant font style in the sheetmetal like the rolling billboard pictured above. I’m not into paying to advertise for anyone. 

Did I miss where toilet paper rolls were replaced by bells as the currency of the day?

Did I miss where toilet paper rolls were replaced by bells as the currency of the day?

And yet we would all be so much better off if everyone would.

Yeah it makes it difficult to think of Genesis as a"value" brand when prices are in line with BMW and Mercedes.

Omg, I had a 1984 mercury lynx.   What a total pos that thing was! At one point while driving around (thankfully pretty slowly) one of the tie rod ends failed and the two front wheels pigeon toed towards each other.   Too bad that crap can wasn't totaled right then. 

They need to make the 2.5t the base engine in the g70 and stinger now.   The 2.0 those are rocking won't cut the mustard if you can have a faster n line sonata. 

Cheap shot man! Giulias have had their share of issues, but failing to start or run isn’t one of them.

I'm pretty sure that's how I'd be using it, for the extra power the electric motor would provide.   Electric only would be nice in certain situations,  like when the tank is almost empty.   Maybe the wife would use electric only mode sometimes, but it sounds like it would go back to being pretty slow in that mode.