You can own/use a radar detector and not speed. I am that small overlap in the Venn diagram of non-speeders who own a radar detector. The short amount of time you save isn’t worth the extra fuel and risk for tickets/fines/increased insurance rates to me.

Windows didn’t design and sell the pirating software, just the operating system. Same reason you don’t sue a knife manufacturer after getting stabbed. The knife manufacturer made a legal product, the owner of said knife is the one who committed a legally actionable crime.

Bosch appears to have knowingly designed, manufactured, and sold parts designed to break the law. Hell, it only had two modes, complaint emissions and non-complaint emissions. Even if they didn’t know the parameters VW would use to activate the modes, they still knew that one was illegal. It doesn’t matter that they…

Eh, indemnity isn’t usually the first to go in my experience. If anything, it starts with only one party getting it and the other side says “make it apply to both parties and we’re good”.

Bosch should have demanded the indemnity and not continued working on it until they got it. The Bosch lawyers were right that this could come back to bite them in the ass (for knowingly designing and manufacturing non-compliant parts) and it has. VW may have been the party asking for the non-compliant (read: illegal)…

Good Cadillac dealers know how to do this as well. Arrivederci’s experience with Lexus is about the same as mine with a 10 year old Cadillac at the closest dealer. But they are a Mercedes/Cadillac dealer in an expensive retail area, not a Chevy/Buick/GMC/Cadillac dealer in the sticks.

Ah. I thought you were talking about pump prices, not crude/market prices. Yeah, not always a direct correlation between the two.

Interesting.

RIP Boaty McBoatface

I think they compare to the same month from the prior year. So if August is statistically always a weak month, This August was even weaker than last year.

They haven’t started going up here, paid $1.96 on Monday.

Right? My supercharged/modded 4000lb Grand Prix with an engine originally designed in 1962 can manage 20mpg combined. The fact small cars can get over 40mpg now and here this midsize Ford is getting 20 is sad.

Most modern computer controlled automatics (which is the vast majority of cars & light trucks starting at least around the year 2000) have code to detect brake application without speed decrease. When it detects that, the PCM will downshift the trans, automatically engine braking. The oldest I personally recall having…

Plan ahead.

Gotta be prepared for the next scandal!

That’s pretty typical for multiple makes, when the module loses power, it needs to be “relearned”. Usually once you hold the button down all the way for a full open, keep holding it past close for 2-3 seconds, then repeat for a full close, it’ll work again.

From my domestic car ownership, 60k is a bit low, but not shocking. Most make it to 100-120k. A lot of GM engines never need the timing chain replaced, many will last over 200k miles. I think the tensioner is more likely to need replacement than the chain itself.

Yeah... There’s a lot of issues with the V1 design, but it’s well documented. I went into ownership expecting to have to replace mounts, bushings, diff eventually, etc. Sure enough, mounts and bushings suck, diff has been ok for 25k miles (99k total) but just started leaking oil. They aren’t perfect but with a few…

That and the Tuscan milk.

Sounds like the next Doug Demuro.