I did not use the conditions on the reservation as the reason why Jeep should not use the name. When I mentioned the shaft they got, I was referring to the 200 years they got screwed over.  And if you don’t know the history of mistreatment on the Native American people by the US, then you need to do some reading.

My college girlfriend spent a summer working on a reservation for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (I can’t believe it’s still called that) as a sociology major. She got back and was pretty shell shocked by the conditions on the reservation. It was the 80's and I hope a lot has changed, but considering how much of the…

I leased a Spark EV in 2016 and the sales guy told me that the car had an emergency 5 miles of reserve beyond what the car shows. I decided to test it out. I drove to my customer who was 18 miles away with a little over 40 miles showing on the range meter. On the way back to my shop at 10 miles the car turns off the…

not OK Cruz

I can’t speak for this particular car, but I raced a ‘91 Escort GT in Lemons and that thing was bullet proof.  We had the temp gauge pegged twice in the same day and never missed a beat.  The transmission was pretty brittle, but other than that, it is a tank.

Driving near Lake Tahoe in the winter is the stuff of nightmares. The roads are full of people from the Bay Area who think being in a Yukon with 4 wheel drive makes the physics of snow covered roads vanish. I have seen a lot of wrecks over the years due to over aggressive driving.  

What’s the deal with the pallet bolted to the side of the garage?

I’ve never understood why just running a credit check dings your credit score. 

This is one movie, along with the Princess Bride, that I went into with way too much hype. The Princess Bride was the greatest comedy movie ever, which it’s not, and Speed Racer was an amazing mashup of mind bending visuals and world making similar to the Matrix were things I was told. I typically like to watch movies…

Driving from the bay area to Riverside to move my son out of college due to Covid. Making the 850 mile trip in one day in a 2008 Sequoia. Get 4 hours in and realize that these seats are the most uncomfortable I’ve ever sat in, and that I’ve got another 9 hours in them.

I had a lathe shop that I used and the guy had a new car every 2 years, houses in Tahoe and Maui, and a really nice place in Palo Alto.  His biggest customer shut down and he had to let almost everything go to survive.  

Don’t bother replacing the valve cover gasket. The plastic OEM POS flexes worse than Schwarzenegger on a bender.  

Yeah, I like big words that sound smart.

A politician getting rich off of inside knowledge. I think that’s the cover story for “No Shit Weekly” magazine.

Seems funny that car sales are going to rebound when we are supposed to entering the robo taxi phase. 

My CAM system is running on Windows 3.1 on a machine from 1992.  I replaced the power supply 2 years ago, but that about it.  Well, except it will not read to the floppy drive, or download NC programs from the CNC.  I finally bought a new system 3 weeks ago, just in case.

So, the Stellantis game plan is to find a product with massive profit margins, only make 2,000 of them, see massive interest, then toss it all away.  Everyone associated with this plan should be sent packing.

It’s funny how the topic of EV adoption comes up and someone will state that they won’t own an EV until it can drive 500 miles and charge in 5 minutes. Well, current EVs are not for you if you drive from Sacramento to LA and only stop for 5 minutes. EVs are not the complete solution now. ICE vehicles will have a place…

“shift more resources from the company’s old business to EVs and digitization, expand battery manufacturing, and explore new revenue streams and payment systems.”

This is a terrible way to start the reveal off. Like the massive wait for the new Supra. When it was finally revealed it garnered a massive yawn. BTW, can the pop up ads please not occur while I’m FUCKING TYPING.