Just for the fun of it, I went on to Chevy’s configurator and selected a Tahoe with every available factory option, and it cost... $105,470. Imagine spending six figures on a Chevy Tahoe.

... to whom is a Chevrolet a status symbol? An Escalade, sure. But a Tahoe?

Unless you’re a Baby Boomer or older, this has to be an electric car, because at a certain point gasoline is going to be largely unavailable for purchase. And sooner than that, it’s going to become prohibitively expensive. So it needs to be electric, and reliable (has to last enough decades until you die), and easy…

It’s a relatively new house, built in 1960, so new enough that it was built with electricity already installed, rather than a 19th century house that had to be retrofit. But it was built with a 60 amp panel and all of the outlets ungrounded, and even though it was upgraded to 100 amps when central air was installed in…

I am currently awaiting an expensive repair bill for ny Mustang, which at 100,000 miles needs some serious refreshening. Before that, in the 10 years and 100k miles since I bought it new, it cost me a total of... let's say $1,500 in oil changes; $2k in brakes; $700 for away bar linkages; and $250 for a throttle body…

A) My commute is 50 miles each way.

The house was built in 1960 with a 60 amp panel. The previous owner installed central air in the 90's and upgraded to a 100 amp panel.

Duesenberg SSJ with a Coyote engine, Brembos, electronic stability control, rollover protection, seatbelts and airbags, modern tires, and straight pipes.

I’ve looked at it from every single conceivable direction, and it still just doesn’t make economic sense to buy an EV. I pay $0.26 / kWh for electricity, and it would cost (roughly) $10k to upgrade my house’s electrical system to be able to install a level 2 charger, including the permits necessary for increasing my…

Driving a Tesla is now a political statement that only the worst people in the world want to make. "Hi everybody, I'm a neo-Nazi!" is not what you want your shoddily assembled EV to say to the world.

First thing I did when I got a new car was pull the fuse for the 4G radio - I don’t want anybody tracking where I’m going and what I’m doing. Same reason I keep my cell phone in an RFID blocking case. Can’t imagine who would be so unconcerned about their privacy as to allow this much data to be collected on them.

If ever there were a set of criteria screaming out for an AMC Pacer, this is it.

It’s either Mystichrome or TVR’s version, ChromaFlair. Nothing else comes close.

I got a Hyundai Palisade instead. Fantastic car.

I would imagine it has something to do with speeding up the evaporation of water on the back glass through the glass being so much warmer than the water (that may be wrong; I’m not a physicist), but if you’re driving in a rain storm and you’ve had the defroster on for an hour+, the window stays as clear of water as if…

As a Mustang owner and a Mustang fanatic, I simply cannot imagine anybody getting excited for the new Mustang. They breathed on the engine a little bit, made the interior and the exterior worse, and are selling it for more than the previous generation. It’s still a great car, but, man... nope. Still hanging on to my…

Any Toyota hybrids right now (except, I believe, the Sequoia) are going for insane markups because Toyota can’t build them fast enough. I had wanted to look at a Grand Highlander hybrid, but no Toyota dealer within 50 miles had any to sell, although I got the impression that if I threw them another $10k over MSRP they…

Why do all cars put rear window defrosters on timers? I used to have a 1987 Toyota Corolla (one of the last passenger sedans sold in the US with a carbuerator), and its rear window defroster was a switch, on or off. You could leave it on for hours at a time, which is fantastic when it’s raining, since it prevents…

I have a degree in economics; I’m aware of the benefits of of social safety net programs in the UK that the US doesn’t have, which makes an apples-to-apples income comparison inexact, but the purchasing price parity differential between the UK and the US is essentially nonexistent, so that doesn’t really impact the…

Sometimes I forget that the UK is actually really poor. UK’s median household income is about $44k, which is less than the median household income in the poorest US state (Mississippi, about $48k).