Came here to say the same thing. We did some National Park visiting last summer and rented a mini-van for the many hour drive from the airport with kids. However, it didn’t take us long to realize that the van limited some of the places we were able to get to once inside the park. If we did it again, we would rent an…

We have two grade school kids who complain about the rear seat space in her current ride (2016 Infiniti QX50).

Mercedes had their shit together from 2014 and will probably continue to have it together through this season, until next season when the regulations change again and someone else will be on top. It completely makes sense that MB would consider an exit after this season, knowing that they will require massive amounts…

Two of my friends bought tractors at their crisis stage. 

Come rain, snow, neglect, or nuclear apocalypse (probably), these things just work.

I am also an architect working with high-net worth individuals. One of my favorite memories is one of an Upper East Side wife who literally had a tear-ridden tantrum about her need to have a Sub-Zero refrigerator and that there was no way she could live in the apartment without one. Her husband, who made all their…

Brough-trucks are driven by a higher class of douche-bags.

ha ha! They are close but need more burled walnut!

They should have gone full Brougham d’Elegance

Event #1: 1997, Rome, Italy. I was with a group of college friends doing an Italian tour for our architecture program. On our last night there, we walked out of a bar at about 2 AM. Walking down the street myself and a buddy both stopped dead in our tracks looking at something we could not place. Going to school in…

Don’t forget to add in a box of extra wheel bearings. 

We won’t be buying stuff that needs a ton of work.

It would surely be great if gas pumps would accept paper money like a vending machine. Stations would keep all the cash and not pay the credit cards their fee, drivers would be able to pay the cash rate, and there would be no concern over card data being stolen.

a mom explaining that she needs an open floor plan so she can have uninterrupted sight lines to her children while she works in the kitchen

Clearly, this came from the design studio of Otho Fenlock. His work in the 80s was on the verge of groundbreaking, but being able to move towards an aesthetic that can simultaneously confuse the brain to think the owner has a mis-understood version of taste while spending enormous amounts of money is nothing short of…

CP, for no other reason than having gold tone badges.

I read the book and loved it; tried to watch the show an hated it. Honestly, I didn’t even know it was still on.

Why not? It is the one thing you look at every single time you are in the car. My wife stopped looking at the Mazda 3 exactly because of the tablet on the dash design.

That night mode button on Saabs was great.

The tablet sitting on the dash aesthetic is pretty much the main reason my wife stopped looking at the Mazda 3. I hope this trend goes away soon.