It’s all about skipping the avocado toast, and also making sure you make coffee at home. It all adds up.

They were just too terrified of Gazpacho.

I don’t need some mustache twirling heel at a press conference. DRIVE with panache, that’s enough for me.

I feel like it’s made far worse given how Horner handles things, but it seems like it’s always someone else’s fault if he doesn’t win... the car isn’t as fast... the track wasn’t right... the stewards have it in for him... I don’t want to hear it. I feel like of the more-than-a-few Dutch folks I’ve known, one in a…

I drive a violently bland 2008 CR-V. It’s the EX-L. It has 160k-ish on it, and it just keeps being capable, and it’s paid off, so I just keep driving it.

It also happens to have an interruption between the weird soulless transmission lever and the console with cupholders and cubbies where the floor goes all the way…

Ooh, can I play too?

I think he’s going to nominate a crab person, who will turn out to really only be here to drill into our heads and extract our pineal glands, which are incredibly valuable on their home planet.

This is fun!

For the northeast it’s hard not to recommend an Impreza or Forester with the manual.

How do we get through these articles without the mention of the use of “Juice” in Bounty Paper Towel radio spots?

That was what I remember Bolian saying as well in the piece that ran when he did it... it was also why diesel wasn’t a compelling idea.

The idea of having to drive across the endless, flat blandness that exists in parts of this great country at anything under the posted speed limit is impossibly cruel as a concept.

I think Ed Bolian spoke about that after his record setting trip, and he said that the primary need for him was that the car be exceptional at scrubbing and restoring speed, so that he could accelerate back to a record setting sort of pace as quickly as possible after having to slow for traffic or police presence. …

I’d take this (aesthetically) over any full size pickup truck on the market at the moment.

I can’t begin to imagine the depreciation... I look forward to picking one up in about ten years for less than the price of a new RAV4, with an annual maintenance budget similar to the amount required to run the French Navy.

Without any consideration of cost, I will say that people I know who’ve had (insert name here) winter tires are often on the fence about them.  Anyone who’s had Hakkas has the wild eyed zeal of a seasoned cult member.  They’re right, too.  We don’t run studs, they’re not necessary for our conditions typically, but…

I got a good deal on Hakkas for one car at the the right time. They are fantastic. I have year round Nokian all weathers on the other. They are very good, though not in the same ballpark when it’s nasty out. Both are significantly better than the OEM all season tires that happened to be on these cars.

If you and I both drive the same mileage, we are using the exact same amount of rubber, and it costs us the same thing, regardless of whether I’m wearing out winter tires alongside my all-seasons and you’re just using one of them.

I use a certain amount of tire value per year, regardless of how I distribute it.

So,…

Huh?

So, my all-seasons are rated for, say 35,000 miles. My winter tires are rated for 35,000 miles. I’m progressively using my tires. I swap on the winter tires around now, and then the mileage doesn’t come off my all-seasons (or summers on one car.)

I’m just buying tires at different times, but all the rubber that…

My wife and I both have Nokian all weathers on our cars for year round use.  She also has a set of Nokian Hakkapelliittas for the winter.  The Nokian all weather tires are distinctly better than standard OEM all-seasons were on her Forester, and she’s managed in some snow, but has said (and I can confirm…

The only real cost differential I can see is the changeover from one set to the other... other than that, you can just look at your mileage burning another set of tires, instead of just one.

I have nokian A/S on both our cars, and my wife’s has hakkas for winter.  She has said that the Nokians are good on both scores, but the hakkas are otherworldly in genuinely tough winter conditions.  The difference means basically just passing everyone in snow.