You’ll forgive me for having very little sympathy for dealers complaining about people asking them real, important questions about how they might actually go about *using* an EV. The market is changing. You either change with it or you get left in the dust. Whining about people asking questions you don’t know the…

I heard of a few people getting failed for this when I was preparing to get my license a few decades ago. In my state, you’re not allowed to drive without another licensed driver in good standing and 18 or over in the car when you have only a learner’s permit. They also had (have?) a rule about permit drivers not…

You’re not worried about Troy getting up in your stuff again?

Either your spouse is very understanding, in a coma, or both.

I don’t disagree, but legally speaking, if it ain’t on paper, it didn’t happen. For you, you had emails, so there was some paper trail. Even then, if they hadn’t played ball, your recourse would have been to sue them to make them do it. You’re talking significant time, money, and aggravation to get it to stick. In…

I don’t think it’s necessary to apply price controls to things that aren’t critical. There’s a whole bunch of reasons that’s a bad idea. Suffice it to say, a RAV4 isn’t a staple and if a dealer wants to ask $100k for it, all that’s going to happen is nobody’s going to buy it. Nobody dies.

I’ve got one gesture for this: the one commonly known as “you’re number one.”

This is better than a touchscreen how?

Nope. They’re going in dry.

Only if you’ve got a contract that says that. The deposit might represent a good faith intention to buy, but it isn’t binding. Hell, they don’t necessarily even need to give it back unless you’ve got a piece of paper that says they do.

Yeah, but a RAV4 isn’t exactly a resource you need to survive during a natural disaster like fuel for your generator while the power is out or water to drink when the municipal water is contaminated.

Only if some asshat actually buys it.

They’re getting $2500 for the TruCoat now, huh?

Very likely. I feel like he probably would have vaporized with a glare whatever manager approved that design.

I don’t care if it’s a fold-down or the top of the center console bin, but if there’s no place for me to rest my right arm, we’re gunna have a problem. My wife’s ‘05 Forester didn’t have an armrest attached to the seatback and the center console lid wasn’t far enough forward to set your arm on. Thing made me…

The window switches make me incredibly angry. I refuse to believe that capacitive mode selector is cheaper than two more rocker switches. It can’t be operated by feel while you’re driving and violates decades of cultural constraints in regards to those controls. It’s the kind of shit that makes human factors engineers…

Because it does actually cool the oil. The oil temperature at operating temperature is always higher than the water temperature, so the water will pull some heat of of the oil faster than it would have picked it through the engine parts. As long as the water cooling system can handle the added heat — generally not…

You’ll forgive me for finding a system that’s supposed to be able to drive a car by itself being foiled by an inexperienced operator being the height of irony.

I stopped looking at resale prices for E46’s a while ago. It was too depressing. I figure they’ll probably go back up in a few years once they’re antiques, more E30’s are dead, and the remaining ones become unattainable. Not that I plan to sell my 325Ci for anything but scrap after I completely wear it out. I’ve had…

I’ve been toying with the idea of replacing the frankly awful head unit in my Subaru with something that knows CarPlay for more than a year now. I’ve not run across a single one that’s not something awful from Alibaba that’s less than $350 for just the unit itself. I’d love to know where you’re finding a decent unit…