Our 2018 Ford Expedition transmission grenaded itself at 70k miles. It sat in a shop for 3 MONTHS while the techs had to go through an approved repair process directly from Ford. They and I both knew it needed a completely new transmission but corporate demanded they follow the instructions of an engineer who walked…

“Every” was obviously hyperbole. Your counterexample only proves that EVs that don’t accelerate like a Lambo haven’t been economically viable. Congrats?

It’s a little pricier than that to get Maltese residency:

And GM lost a significant amount of money on each one sold.

There is one reason we don’t have a minivan despite preferring one:

If it had AWD, this would be on the short list for our next vehicle. Ah well.

I think even PHEVs are a little ahead of the curve when talking about the US generally. LOTS of people live in places where charging a car every night is just not convenient or even possible. Hybrids are going to grow in market share and stick around for a long time.

Dodge Durango. It was last redesigned 13 years ago and still costs over $41k for a 2WD base trim with cloth seats.

The “crossover” designation has nothing to do with size. It’s about platform. An SUV is body on frame, like the GX. Crossover’s are unibody.

It’s $65k in order to get AWD. The vast majority will have AWD. A similarly specced Telluride EX runs $45k. There are a couple differences, but I’m not sure ventilated seats will be a deciding factor for most people. I also don’t expect these to go for less than MSRP anytime soon.

Hideous AND dangerous? Sign me up!

It’s not just about snow. Winter tires perform better below 45 degrees. At any rate, the snow tires may be $500 up front, but they are prolonging the life of your all-seasons/summers. The difference in cost is minimal over the life of both sets of tires.

It’s not just about snow. Winter tires perform better below 45 degrees. At any rate, the snow tires may be $500 up front, but they are prolonging the life of your all-seasons/summers. The difference in cost is minimal over the life of both sets of tires.

They are still widely used. They’re cheap and surprisingly accurate. Jalopnik did a story about them in 2018.

That’s a lot of money to spend on gas every year. At 17 mpg and 15k miles/year, it would take 7 - 10 years to pay off on gas savings. It’s obviously going to take way longer on similarly sized vehicles that get better mpgs.

They are also used to collect speed data. See Table 10.

False. Most speed limits are set based on the ~80 percentile threshold of observed speeds during speed data collection (those little rubberized tubes across the road). They take the actual speed people drive and generally make the limit that which was observed as the 80-85 percentile, not even the median.

Insurance companies already have those things you plug into the OBDII. Don’t want higher insurance rates? Plug it in!

Trying to decide if this is a good time to buy TSLA stock. I despise the guy, but their only real short-term competition is Chinese brands and it doesn’t appear that the US is in any hurry to apply free market principles to Chinese-made products anytime soon.

I get it, but I think the electorate is ill-informed on purpose. The strategy is to divide people on culture war issues while those in power wage class war unabated. The news media exists to pander to and further entrench either of two sides. Then your options come election time are two millionaires swimming in…