Own a 2011 Ford F250 King Ranch since new.  If you have children then pass.  This leather is not protectice coated like most cars or a mix of leather bits and glue.  It is open grain leather that requires constant maintenance to prevent drying out.  My relative wearing shorts sweat on the seats once and there is a…

Brand new truck with modern safety standards vs an ancient truck with almost zero safety standards and old rotting rubber hosing?  Troubleshooting a vacuum leak or dripping fuel line sounds like a good old time...  New truck every time for that pricing on the 1984.

You should not compare a volvo v60 to a mercedes e class wagon.  The Volvo v90 is the competitor to that mercedes, not the v60.

1st: My ecoboost meets EPA numbers as long as I’m not driving with a lead foot.  Of course it is a 2015 so I’m not a valid sample against the claimed 2018-2019 model year fraud.

First thing that comes to mind:

you forgot the plug-in hybrid lincoln aviator

Live in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California. When the main roads are blocked I often take the mud trails and off roading to get home in my 8,100 pound F-250. Once got it stuck in the snow because the diesel engine is just way too heavy for any serious angles. In the future I would consider going gas v8…

Good for you! Realistically one baby can fit in the back of a civic in the middle seat. Maybe two in the rear seats if you get the smaller sized car seats. That seems to have been the biggest limiter with our three children, children car seats vary greatly in size. See if a retailer will let you try a seat in your car…

“but only three out of five stars in the rollover test”

Agreeing with many comments here that your article is very strange.  Trying to make this sound shady when it would actually cover many driver commutes.  Another reason this site is getting worse...

Passes crash tests against itself, not other vehicles. Not moving objects. Not against multiple vehicle pileups. Not against big rigs. Auto death and injury statistics collected by IIHS proves that higher weight correlates with higher survivability. I saw a video on youtube of a 4,000 pounds volvo xc70 wagon collide…

That math means an 8 passenger SUV would have to average 36 MPG. Our Navigator L 4x4 gets 19 MPG highway at 6100 pounds and the newer aluminum expedition 2WD gets 24 MPG highway at 5,500 pounds. Personally I think more automakers should use Aluminum... Your math is not very forgiving and would dramatically shrink car…

I see your point.  Just thinking that reparations are never going to happen for many reasons.  I also do not agree with seeing my taxes go up for this sort of thing.

What do my ancestors have to do with today? My father immigrated from Greece in the 1960s with nothing but $50 in his pocket. Simple village farmers with no wealth to speak of. He was also subjected to racism with living in the deep south before moving to California where he was treated better. He didn’t let it get…

I’m white and parents did not send me to private school, college, did not pay anything on my house, did not help me start a business, did not provide white college contacts, did not help my find any of my jobs.  In fact my parents did not go to college and neither did I.  To say “the talented tenth” sounds very odd,…

I live in Northern California Sierra Nevada Mountains with the Wife and children. We have bears in the yard and strolling down the road regularly. They break into cars and homes all the time, ripping open refrigerators and so-on. Mountain lion lives behind our backyard and killed two deer last week. We do not let the…

Bolt action requires the user to pull the bolt back and forward by hand to load every new round. Gas-powered semi-automatics like modern handguns and rifles use gas pressure from the previous spent round to push the bolt back for you, loading the new round for you. First American mass-produced semi-auto guns in the…

They are not “heavy-duty assault weapons”.  Those are actually illegal because, you know, the military can only use them and rare private citizens with a special license.  What you see in the picture are regular semi-auto rifles.  One trigger pull, one bullet.  Not some full-auto military machine gun.

No net worth when I started out.  Didn’t ask anyone for a handout.  No “generational” money bought my house or car.  I did with hard work and spending less than what I earned while being on a budget.  Get some common sense, this argument is ridiculous.

The civil war finally killed slavery in this country with the cost of 620,000 soldiers lives. That cost is much higher than any dollar figure ever will be. Don’t those soldiers count as well? What about that “collective enterprise”. I think 620,000 dead soldiers is reparations enough.