As somebody who has a 4 year old and a 5 year old, and finally had to retire my ten year old Mustang to weekend duty, I’ve recently been in the market for a 3-row SUV. I’m in my mid-40's now, and still have the Mustang for when I want to have fun driving, so I wasn’t terribly concerned about driving dynamics.

About five years ago, before COVID, I was walking to my office, and stopped in a perfume shop to look at perfume for my wife. I didn’t buy anything; I didn’t post on social media that I’d been looking at perfume. When I got back to my desk and opened an internet browser, all of the ads everywhere were for perfume. I…

Ever since the first Motorola Droid, I’ve always used the Tasker app to shut off wifi and data connections when I leave the geofenced area around my home or office, to save on battery usage and save on data consumption. The $15/GB data plan is the same data plan I’ve had with Verizon since like 2011. I used to have it…

Toyota has two vastly different CVTs. The one you’ll find in a base Corolla is... fine, as CVTs go. Better than most. But the one the put in their hybrids with a planetary gearset shouldn’t even really be called CVTs; it’s an entirely different technology and it’s actually awesome. Sometimes they’re advertised as…

He tows a lot, and CVTs are really not up to the challenge of towing despite what the official tow rating might say.

I recently bought a Hyundai Pallisade, and I’m reasonably certain that that is the correct answer for this question (certainly a better answer than the Grand Highlander or Pilot). 

I’m sure that EVERY CHILD MATTERS thing was a Pizzagate reference

The Sirius app requires using data connections to listen to music; I pay $15/GB for data, so there’s no way I’m using a data connection to stream music. Even if you have an “unlimited” data plan, you’ll still get your speed throttled if you use too much data, so you have to conserve ever MB wherever you can. I…

Irecently got my first ever car with Android Auto, and... it seems kind of useless? Unlike the built-in navigation, it doesn't show turn-by- turn directions in the HUD, which makes navigation pointless. And you can't control the car's SIRIUS radio through the Android Auto interface, which means there's nothing to…

What happened to Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4's? Thought those were the best all season tire.

It was in the shop constantly, but those were warranty repairs so I wasn't actually paying out of pocket on them. 

World is running out of aluminum.

One thing I’ve never understood about these doomsday prepper people who need to be armed to the teeth to prepare for the coming apocalypse is... if the world has seriously deteriorated to the point where you need to kill other people to survive; where food and medicine are scarce and supply chains have no chance of…

In the spring of 2008, I bought a 1991 Mercedes 560SEL for $4,000. A bit over 2 years later, I gave it away for free, having spent over $25,000 in repairs on it. Everything from $1,500 brake pads to $1,000 window switches. I spent more time in the waiting room of the Mercedes service center than in my own apartment.…

One thing I will never do is buy another car in white / black / grey / silver. Cannot stand how every car looks like it’s been printed by a laser printer. Last three cars I purchased new for myself were a 2011 Cayman (red), 2015 Mustang (blue), and 2024 Palisade (green). My next car will be yellow.

It would have been at least a somewhat more difficult decision if they offered the Kia Carnival with AWD, but they don’t. I’m going to regularly be doing some light offroading - my uncle has a 4-season lake house that, to get to it, you need to drive about two miles along a dirt logging trail, and from that logging…

I bought a 2024 Palisade Calligraphy two weeks ago after having driven sports cars for the last 15 years (finally giving in to suburban dadhood with a 4 and 5 year old) and, I gotta say... it’s just so nice. Drives so smoothly, such a wonderful cabin, every conceivable feature, room for everything. It’s... just a…

How in the world do you make a list like this and not include the Mercedes 600? That 2,200 PSI hydraulic system running everything from the windows to the seats to the trunk closure is probably the single most complex piece of engineering ever included on a car.

Hamas is a terrorist organization that does not care about dead Gazan civilians. It’s in their best interest to keep this diffusion going, because every day Israel commits more and more atrocities, looks worse and worse to the international community, and loses more support of its allies. If this continues, and a…

Do you honestly think that it’s impossible to both believe a) 10/7 was a horrific atrocity and b) the IDF slaughtering tens of thousands of children and doing their best to starve two million people to death is a horrific atrocity, and that neither one was justified?