At that price, with that maintenance, this seems like it would be a pretty great first car for a teenager. NP all the way.

Ford decided it would be a great idea to create an awesome compact pickup truck that everybody wanted, and then offer a hybrid engine... exclusively with front-wheel drive. In a pickup. No idea what they’re thinking.

Entire list of hybrids Ford currently offers: F-150 hybrid with low take rates; Escape PHEV inexplicably only available in FWD, so it’s non-competitive in the compact SUV class; Maverick hybrid inexplicably only available in FWD, so it’s non-competitive in the compact pickup class; Escape ST-Line Elite ($1,600 hybrid…

Toyota’s bet on hybrids has been so succesful that you have to wait 18 months and pay dealer markup to get a Sienna hybrid. Why the Big 3 have abandoned hybrids (except Stellantis, which keeps building hybrids that break all the time) is absolutely beyond me.

Toyota’s bet on hybrids has been so succesful that you have to wait 18 months and pay dealer markup to get a Sienna hybrid. Why the Big 3 have abandoned hybrids (except Stellantis, which keeps building hybrids that break all the time) is absolutely beyond me.

Are those 671 new Nissan Z’s sold a result of them not reaching dealer lots yet, or have people just realized that the new Z is an absolutely terrible deal in this market compared to other cars you can get for the same price? 

Well then here’s an even bigger status symbol, with a current auction bid of only $35k, it’s a bargain!

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.