I have a road like that near me. It’s very popular with cyclists but has a 50MPH speed limit with no shoulder and a couple of blind curves. I refuse to ride on it.

That’s my assumption also. I’ve heard of several similar slow title stories when a dealer takes in a trade from several states away. Minor hiccups that could be resolved by sending a person over to the DMV take weeks or months via mail/email/phone.

Want intermittent or auto wipers? That’s $5/mo for intermittent, $10/mo for automatic.

I call B.S. on the manuals being undesirable. Long story short, my Outback is at the dealer for it’s second warranty CVT replacement this year. The reman they put in started to go out after 800 miles.

That how my local Subaru dealer tries to operate. They add the loaner expenses to the bill they send Subaru. However, many dealers don’t have cars on the lot and they typically flip the loaners into the used car lot before they accumulate too many miles. My dealer can’t get new cars to replenish the loaner fleet.

Neutral - I remember watching Australian Jet Boat racing (now V8 Superboats) and riding lawnmower racing.

I was in the auto industry when hex chrome coatings were being phased out. The factory I worked at assembled HVAC cases. One would think we could have gone through the historical test data, found a design that barely passed vibration and thermal cycling tests. Build a few of those cases with the new fasteners, then…

The second was a reman unit that never felt right and only made it ~900 miles before it was obviously failing.

The first trans towed once. It was 800 pounds, 60 mile round trip with a few hours to cool down before the return trip.

This. I work in manufacturing. Substitute chips, different materials specs on metals. Resin based goods getting substitute chemicals. Those are just the ones we are getting informed of. We deal with sub-standard supplier parts daily that are obviously different but get sent without our approval first. Lots of…

Been there, done that. 14 years and 25k+ miles of using a bicycle as primary transportation! I would usually put more miles on my bicycles than my cars. But life and circumstances changed that. I’ve been back to driving a car for 4 years.

My 2017 Outback just killed it’s second transmission in 42k miles. I’m in the market since I don’t trust Subaru’s CVT anymore. I may end up putting 1 or 2 more transmissions in it between now and when the market goes back to normal. I was really hoping CVT #2 would last until I could at least test drive a Maverick.

If Jack Welsh had kept GE in manufacturing, I would probably still be living in my home town. Instead, I’m halfway across the country. GE had a very large manufacturing footprint in Pittsfield, MA. They are gone now. It’s hard finding an engineering job in an area that lost most of it’s industry.

I work at a vehicle factory that voted the UAW in about 8 years ago. They were very smart when negotiating the contact. Engineers are allowed to work on anything they have an interest in. That keeps the union grievances away while we do our jobs trying new parts or finding new ways to assemble current parts. On the…

Mine is a roast fail;

My employer has been trying to do an EV for four years now. After all that time and lots of money (we are a fortune 500 company and can afford the R&D costs), we still don’t have what most would consider a viable product. For something that seems simple, it’s amazingly hard. It’s even harder to retain qualified…

What happens if the battery in the phone dies or it loses the bluetooth connection?

Preach! I hate bike lanes and feel they are less safe than sharing the road. The reason being drivers in either lane have their “blinders” on, assuming they are safe.  It’s similar to riding on a sidewalk and getting hit by a car turning into a parking lot.  I see two solutions (both equally improbable).

I had a 10th generation F-150. It came with a laundry list of broken/worn items that were about to send it to the junk yard. It was known as Zathras.

My wife and I both do this.  Except she goes faster with me in the passenger seat because of the improved weight distribution.