I believe you have to define a route to download maps, yes. I believe the apps — a good friend uses I think the TomTom app. Maybe it was Garmin? — download maps for whole regions as you tell them to. You’re unlikely to cross a region boundary on a detour. It’s true that those maps do take up a whole pile of space on…

I’m sure they know what they’re talking about, but it seems silly to ask Mercedes about affordable cars. It makes me think of that clip from the TV show where the out of touch rich lady says something like “It’s a banana. How much could a banana cost, $10?”

I keep seeing a lot of comments they say things like this and I’m confused. Smartphones have had GPS receivers in them for decades. They can tell their location pretty closely without a cellular signal. The trouble is that the built in maps applications generally don’t allow you to download maps and store them…

Is an SSR a bad place to be? I figure most Chevys of that vintage weren’t exactly nice inside, but I don’t recall them being so bad you couldn’t stand it.

If you look past the goofy looks and the hype, and ignore the first generation ones that were pretty damned horrible, the PT Cruiser wasn’t really all that bad. I spent a lot of time with an ‘03. It wasn’t awful to drive despite the slushbox, it wasn’t uncomfortable to be in, and it was deceptively easy to cram full…

I put a lot of miles on my grandparents’ ‘90 Dodge Caravan. It even had a stick, which should have made it tolerable. It was *fucking awful.* It was every bit of the K-cars it was spawned from. I doubt that ‘92 made you feel any different, but your ‘18 surely proved to you that the newer ones are similar only in name.

I had an ‘02 Grand Caravan for a while. It suffered from chronic early-aughts Chrysler issues, which sucked bigtime. It never stranded me, though, and it was *super useful* and taking it places always felt like bringing along the dumb but lovable family dog: “Oh boy! We’re going on a trip, oh boy!” It wasn’t…

My suggestion only got six stars and it showed up in the article. Who the hell knows.

BMW and Mercedes, primarily. Hell, BMW even makes SUV things they’re trying to pass off as “coupes.” Makes me want to do murders.

That’s more than I’d figure. On one hand, neat! On the other, they’re pretty damned ugly.

Jacked up…noooooooooo…

Those make plenty of sense on the angular, Blade Runner-esque cars of the 80’s. Basically anything that had one of those grids that was screamed “computerz!” as a background for the instruments. Especially an overly large manifold pressure gauge that said “TURBO” in overly large letters. Bonus if it’s in that…

Do they really make that much of a difference?

MY EYES.

They look dumb on modern cars, but they look perfect on something that was designed to look silly like a Countach.

I hate the meat-slicers. I feel like they were trying for a modernized version of the telephone-dial wheels Porsche used (at least) on the 944 in the early ‘80’s.

Oh, *so* this. I noticed a few months ago that my wife’s factory wheels have six spokes but five lugs, so the placement of the lugs relative to the spokes isn’t consistent. Made me want to commit violence.

Coupes have *two* doors. Two shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be…*two.*

I’m with you, despite the fact that I kneel at the Altar of the Third Pedal. If your commute is all highway or worse, all traffic, there’s just no joy in it besides getting to skip half of leg day. If you can swing your commute to involve back roads and twisties, though, then it’s on. Too bad so few of us can do such…

I hope you left room for me to be buried on your hill as well.