I like the screens with rear view where the side mirrors would be.

There have been studies done on scarcity and the impact that has on IQ and the inability to focus on anything else. This is a sort of manufactured scarcity - I need these things and I don’t have them so it lowers my IQ and focus until I get them.

It is insane and it all stems from poor decision making. Like, buying a new C300 sport when you REALLY didn’t need to or should have in the first place and then 6 months later changing your mind and jumping into a loaded F-150 EcoBoost because that’s what everyone else did and then a year later rolling the…

In your first case, yes. Absolutely a lease makes total sense and you get the pleasure of a new car every 2-3 years for not a ton of money for now. That’s crazy about Maine! wow.

I also don’t get the “new every two years” mentality either. I’m in a similar boat - def. in the top 5% of earners for my county, have two small kids, and we drive two paid off vehicles: a 10 year old CR-V and a 9 year old midsize pickup. There isn’t much reason to go new even for us - cars are just staying good for…

Neutral: worked for Kia.

I’ve been shopping around in a similar spot, thinking about unloading my truck for a sportier wagon that’ll fit two car seats, transport bikes on the roof, and easy to load up hockey gear in the back.

Realistically, for a daily driver with a family, a manual about has to be a ‘nice to have.’

I’d be damn hard pressed to find a better answer than this.

HA! It’s disappointing how few people get that reference.

Great googley moogley. Too late to edit that now. Thanks for finding it.

Neutral: Are You Buying A Car This Year?

Same here. We’ve been mulling over getting out of our truck and into a minivan and if the deal’s good enough...

How can you drive it when it’s in cement? Aren’t TRDs for offroad anyway? psh.

I think the parts about the car being less unique or more boring than the Mustang and Mopar offerings is silly - the Camaro is far more ditinct than those.

Where the hell was your brother that a Zamboni and car would cross paths? Don’t just say “Canada.”

I got to take an R8 (along with an RS6 and RS3) out for some hot laps behind a champion GT4 driver (y? I still don’t know) and I will never forget that. I still get tingly thinking about it now.

What you say is totally true about the comfort, at least - it was just as easy to get behind the wheel of that as it was a…

Not personally familiar, but I was researching these before buying the Quickjack instead and this is what I found:

Not personally familiar, but I was researching these before buying the Quickjack instead and this is what I found:

Long ago, I drove an MR2 and it was swell. This year, I got a chance to do some hot laps in an R8 V10 and that was a life changing experience. I want a mid-engined something so badly now. This could only be an improvement on the Corvette.

I’m with ya, but even OEM on my Suzuki Equator (Nissan Frontier) were known to be bad - the steel fell out of spec quickly and mine, at 35,000 miles, were toast. The OEMs on my CR-V, however,  are fantastic. You generally get what you pay for in terms of steel quality and precision.