Today’s agenda, got the suitcase up in the Sentra. Go to room 112, tell ‘em Blanco sent you.

Really seems like it would make a perfect EV platform.

T-Tops are the single greatest option that you can’t get on cars any more, and so I’m giving it a NP for that alone.

If you really want to teach them how to drive a manual, you need something with unsynchronized gears. The last passenger car with an unsynchornized first gear was the 1971 AMC Gremlin, but if you really want to go all the way and make sure they learn how to drive a manual properly, you’ll want something with all gears…

Feel like the Escape has become largely redundant with the existence of the Bronco Sport. My mom has a 2020 Escape and my sister has a Bronco Sport and the Bronco Sport is the same but slightly better in every way.

If I were a billionaire I would daily-drive a Bugatti Royale.

I’m 41 years old; I expect my next new car to be my last car, and to last me at least another 40-ish years until I die.

Assume you’re going to be buying this vehicle only, or almost only, to use it to plow. Let’s say — like me — that you’ve got a mile or two of dirt road between where you’re staying in winter and the nearest pavement, and you somehow need to get the snow off of that.

100% NP solely for the reason that I’ve been considering buying a new ATV with a front snow plow attachment solely for plowing dirt roads and it would cost more than 3 times as much of this to properly equip one.

My concern with buying any ICE or hybrid car these days is that you’re buying in to a dying technology, and 10 or 12 years from now it won’t be operable when you can’t find any gas stations. But there aren’t enough EV’s available (especially without massive dealer markups) to make buying one a good idea right now.…

Remember when GM used to put needlessly hot engines in crappy econoboxes, like the Saturn Ion Red Line and the Chevy Cobalt SS? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Was going to post this; this has to be the absolute winner.

I’m sorry your mom went through that. In my experience, when I go in to an independent mechanic and say something like “my window switch isn’t working,” they’ll fix the window switch. But if I take it to a dealer, they’ll fix the window switch, and also tell me I need new brake pads and rotors, and a new engine air…

1) The Coyote engine is designed to use premium but will take regular; in my car, it makes 435 hp on premium but only 431 on regular, so I always try to use premium.

Where else would I take it for service? If I can’t fix it myself, I take it to the dealer. I don’t know what a “code scanner” is; I don’t do much wrenching on these new cars with the digital. General rule of thumb is that if a car is new enough to have fuel injection instead of carbs, it’s too complex for me, so it's s…

I’ve only ever had my cars serviced at the dealer, except for oil changes.

My check-engine light just came on on my almost-8-year-old Mustang, and for a moment I thought “oh no” and then I realized that whatever it is that needs fixing will be cheaper than getting a new car I have to make payments on.

The ultimate solo road trip car as long as you don’t care about the price of gasoline. NP all day every day assuming that the mechanicals work.

The only 2-door Mini Cooper available is a hatchback. Mini Cooper stopped making the Mini Cooper Coupe for the 2015 model year.

I would simply choose not to own a first-gen German fancy technology car that will be out of warranty before you can say “wait HOW MUCH does that cost?”