I’ve seen a tumbleweed absolutely wreck a car back in 2018. I was driving back from picking up my car I left at my friends house up in tahoe (bike to work day, I rode my bike from Nevada to Morgan Hill CA, starting at 12:01am, and at work 10:30am - i was not very productive that afternoon... that weekend i rode my…

If I’m in an unfamiliar area I always turn the satellite view on, so I can verify there’s actually a road there. When I’m on the computer (prior to a large trip or bike ride) I’ll drive questionable parts of the route on Google maps street view. It’s a must imo. Because maps will eventually route you thru some crazy…

Collin, you may get a kick out of this.

400 miles in a day?

Me!

idk, tbh, it just looks like an engine bay without the plastic cladding. it seems like they chose to route everything over the engine, as opposed to under and around it.... hard to say without actually getting my hands in there, but if everything is accessible and straightforward enough to maintain, I dont see any…

The NA motor you see here is stupid reliable. I wish I never sold mine.

that seems to be 6 miles/kwh. that’s pretty damn good. glad to see someone out there still pushing for efficiency.

unfortunately it’s VW, a major payday to the family will likely still be a drop in the bucket. in any case tho, I hope those parents get paid, because fuck VW.

either another $500 volvo if i could find one with low enough miles in a fixable condition....

instead of just having lanes, LA freeways are going to have lines painted across the lanes so they can have rows and rows of 11'x24' rectangles. and everyone can get their parking spots while sitting in traffic

yeah.... ive never been one to care much for a toyota, but damn.. the crown is a sharp looking car. my grandfather had a 7th and a 9th gen when i was growing up.

you can make it across the country, mainly because the country is pretty small. they’re still pretty few and far in between. the closest one from where i grew up is still about 20 minutes away. otherwise theres another one like an hour in the opposite direction.

probably the classic, “brakes failed” even though the pedal was all the way to the floor, because the throttle was stuck open due to a shoe being mashed down on top of the gas pedal.

yup and so do we.

it really comes down to the specific job description.... but mainly it’s and executive that is “busy” therefore needs someone to do all the non-decision making components of their day to day.... (go get coffee, lunch, remind of schedule, block calendar).... but depending on how much they trust their EA’s, execs can…

The average round trip commute in the US is something like 35 miles. So that’s probably around 1/2 the population at a minimum.

haha yeah. i have a hard stop at 1998 for my cars unless i need donor parts like a short block then i can go to 04. (the wife gets the newer cars.).

on the flip side, you actually got robbed at the pump... even if we were buying all our electricity, once factor in fuel costs, we saved almost $1000/year.