mstrjon32

6/23/21

End-user? Is this Silicon Valley speak for driver?

6/23/21

Cars all became our friend who aced the SAT, got his business degree, and is now doing a solid job raising his two kids in the suburbs while working his way up through middle management at a regional accounting firm. He’s a good friend and can hold his liquor on the semi-monthly occasion he comes out with us.

6/22/21

The Miev’s name is spoken like “Mief” in German, which is our word for “unpleasant smell”. Like “Deine Füße miefen” - “your feet are smelly”. :D
Soooo, it is a car that has been banned from broader market acceptance by its name alone here ^^

6/21/21

This is what came up when I googled it, haven’t heard of it before myself.

6/20/21

Seems like an opportunity for content. Fly David Tracy down there and he can wrench on it in a AutoZone parking lot or something and see how much cheaper it can be done.

6/19/21

This sounds like a classic case of an “Inverse Tracy”

6/19/21

Hey, I sold it to her, and I talked with her this morning - I just want to say, I legit had no idea. This was my grocery getter and city escape vehicle, and the steering was vague as hell but I chalked that up to GMT2500 handling, or lack thereof. I never wrenched on this except an alternator, because I honestly had…

6/19/21

Agreed! Something is very wrong here.

6/19/21

3500 before labor.

As a very seasoned mechanic, and shop owner, I’m calling bullshit. Well, mostly, because I don’t know what the other smaller items consist of, and how many of them there are.

I can tell you this - if I had a customer pull into my shop with a ‘96 Suburban and I gave them a 3500 estimate BEFORE LABOR…

6/19/21

This sounds like a classic case of an “Inverse Tracy”: You buy something thinking it’s in good shape only to discover it has problems. As in the opposite of gravitating toward the trash buckets like someone else.

6/15/21

Guy Upbadges Chevy Bolt, We Try To Fool You Into Thinking It’s Rare Saab Prototype For Clicks!

6/14/21

I don’t need a breakdown of the concept of reinvesting earnings (not profits) into a company of growth. I studied economics for long enough to know what Tesla is doing.

And even before I could see your full reply, I knew you would bring up Amazon. There’s a distinct difference. Amazon caught their competitors off-guard…

6/14/21

I’ve also never ate shit. And yet, I can feel comfortable judging that without doing so as well.

6/14/21

Tesla is running into a problem that they can’t necessarily control, and that’s the ceiling of available technology relative to the various regulations they have to (and should) follow.

A lot of the innovation was due to the technology either not being available, researched, or scalable, with the expectation that once…

6/14/21

Around a decade ago, Elon Musk and Tesla had a great idea. They developed an electric car that was the opposite of what we had come to expect from one. People thought electric cars were slow so they made it fast. We thought they took forever to charge so they developed a way to charge them quickly and built the…

6/14/21

I’m from Ohio and I do not approve of Ohio.

6/11/21

Notice they target the tall lifted vehicles for ease of extraction.

6/9/21

It’s OK, Nobody ever gets upset if the two are confused.... Nope, not one person ever! :)

6/9/21

Arkansas.

6/7/21

Most cars are more reliable than people say. One person has a bad experience, repeats it to someone else, that second person picks it up as a lazy joke, repeats it ad nauseam on a motoring site [in times past, in the letters page of a magazine] a comic stuck for a joke picks it up [and exaggerates it] and says it on…