I disagree. When they offer you a ridiculously low interest rate, take the longest term they’ll let you. That money you had saved up to purchase the car can then sit in an investment account working for you instead, the longer the better.

It’s an issue in Illinois. They implemented a law providing tax benefits to fuel stations that only sell ethanol diesel. Ethanol diesel is shitty fuel that will void your warranty if you use it. So very few stations that sell diesel are selling diesel that you can actually use.
Everywhere else I’ve been in the country,…

“In short, the higher the RPM, the lower the specific fuel consumption in terms of grams of fuel consumed per horsepower-hour generated. In fact, at high RPM the specific fuel consumption plummets.” 
I haven’t followed the link, but that’s not what your quoted passage or the plots indicate. Both indicate that BSFC is…

“add sounds to vehicles when they are moving at speeds of up to 18.6 miles per hour... At higher speeds, tire noise, wind resistance, and other factors eliminate the need for a separate alert sound, regulators say.”

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I have bought half of these used. I slept wonderfully on my purchased-used mattress last night. There’s no reason to send perfectly good items to the landfill just because somebody’s slept on it or blended food in it before.
A better set of rules might be:
1. Don’t buy junk, whether it’s new or used.
2. Learn how to…

““Toyobaru” rolls off of the tongue well enough, but what do we call Toyota’s ever-deepening ties with Mazda? Hm.”

Maybe I’m the weird one here. Wouldn’t be the first time. But the lane warning thing on my newest car? It’s great. It rarely does anything. But when it does, yeah, it’s usually because I was drifting a bit far.
But the blind spot monitor? Oh fuck that thing. It’s terrible. Anytime your signal is on when there’s a car…

Last time I was in Vegas, the road was indeed covered in leaves.
But all the leaves had pictures of naked women on them. It was absolutely as weird as it sounds.

Yes, Grippo’s would surely take this if they were distributed more widely. Nothing else tastes like them.

Goddamn that car is still beautiful.

I did not know that. After a little searching, it seems that Google also doesn’t know that.

This was one of the things to really grab my attention from the announcement. (After the price, of course.) Little stuff like this, little integrations between existing systems, can be so powerful. I love this idea. Simple to implement, and it removes an annoyance to owners. Well done on this one GM.

Here he is, smartly suggesting the brake be used in an emergency.
And here you are, insisting that it not be called an emergency brake.
Why?

1993 Toyota Pickup (Hilux outside the US)

My current truck is a 1993 Toyota Pickup (or Hilux outside the US). It’s not some miracle of engineering. It didn’t even have advanced tech for its day. It’s just a simple truck.

That’s still a lot bigger than I want or need, and it would give up all the secondary fun of off-road trails.
It’s not that I haul heavy stuff that often; it’s that so much of my truck’s usage is hauling heavy stuff. If I’m not hauling something or heading to a trail, the truck stays home. Waiting for its next job.…

Why shouldn’t a small truck have 1 ton payload? Automakers used to disagree with you. Again, mine’s sitting right outside.
And if they never want to make them that way again, fine. I’ll just keep on driving my old one, like I have been for a long time already. Eventually when it rusts away, I’ll find a used one from a…

Because the F-150 is gigantic. The smallest one is 35" longer than my pickup and 20" wider. With lower payload capacity, no manual transmission, and no low range transfer case.
Put simply, it’s a worse truck in every way for the way I use a truck. I’m sure that it’s a better truck for a lot of people. But for me, it’d…

Yeah, my current (1 ton compact) truck rides pretty terribly. Who cares? It’s a truck, not a daily driver. If you aren’t using a truck to haul something or to play around off road, you probably should have left the truck at home and driven a car.
Nothing makes me sound and feel more curmudgeonly than talk of using…