“You can’t readily convert diesel to gas or vice versa.”

Given that charging time only matters on long trips, and most people only take, what, a couple of those a year, I think this is generally blown way out of proportion.

Whenever I think about electric vehicle charging infrastructure:

Jalops: “You know if they brought this over they would sell a million of them!”

What kind of friend are you if you don’t teach them to drive manual???

To all the eventual commenters complaining about three pedal lovers, it’s all about this:

I swear the newest auto trans are actually worse than the old ones. Basically all new 8 or 9 or whatever speed auto trans try to get up to the highest gear possible every chance it gets. Say you are rolling along at 10mph. Suddenly you see an opening in the traffic. You stomp on the gas and try to shoot into the…

I’m curious as to how you know he/she is delicious...

So if Americans want fuel efficient cars so badly, why are they all buying CUVs/SUVs that aren’t the most fuel efficient vehicle available to them?

This study is not any indication. People vote with their wallets not a response to some guy asking questions. OF COURSE people will say they want more economy when it doesn’t cost them anything.  But with less than 3% market share, hybrid sales say it all. 

2002 E39 M5. My brother went to pull out of the middle of the front yard at a house we were renovating. While backing up, he heard a scraping sound. After getting out and looking at the other side of the car, he discovered someone had placed a large boulder there with an excavator since he had gone inside.

“Was that the timing belt?”

Tried to re-create a bit of tail wiggle in my mom’s Pathfinder on a dirt road, because I felt so good about having corrected for the first one so “well”.

Why park in gear when I have a functioning Parking Brake?I only do that as an extra precaution when parked on steep terrain. But 99% of the time...why?

Tires are one of the most understated, and underappreciated pieces of maintenance. Just cause they have good tread, doesn’t mean they aren’t old as shit. It’s amazing what a new set of shoes will do for the ride quality and handling. 

Came to say spark plugs and wires, almost any used car I have bought had some spark plugs that were way overdue to be changed.

Do a serious check on the brakes. Get on them hard at least once during the test drive.  I bought a beautiful classic corvette. Low mileage, supposedly meticulously maintained. I drove it 20 miles home...nearly all uphill. Drove it 3 miles to work the next day and ALL 4 calipers were leaking so badly in that 3 mile…

Windshield wipers. You don’t want to get caught in the rain only to realize that the wipers are completely shi*t.

If it’s a lesser driven sports or really any car with low mileage for the age, the tire date codes. When I bought my 93' Firebird last year the tires looked brand new. I checked the codes and they were back from 2001-2002! The guy only put like 5000k miles on it in his almost 20 year ownership.

Mine? Take the car to a quality alignment shop. Even if the car feels fine behind the wheel.