It’s clean, but nowhere near $9500 worth of clean. No Dice.
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Mild hybrid is NOT a hybrid.
I think $40k was the budget I proposed recently as a cap for WCSYB for family haulers. That’s where things actually get difficult and someone likely has to start compromising (other than just having less luxury). Otherwise, we get pretty stale options like this.
Billings is killing it as Lowbeer. Just the right levels of ‘seems to know everything’ without hitting ‘smugly assuming they know everything’. The same with being completely direct and confident in her power while not coming across as grandstanding (or as truly omnipotent so that there was no reason for the rest of…
Oh, I know. But it’s not a common thing. While I’m sure there are others out there, you’re the only person I’ve come across who offers that kind of service. Usually, people just call a friend or family member who “knows cars,” if they do any research at all. I think the vast majority of buyers look at what their…
Hi that buyers agent idea....that is literally my business model. This blogging thing is a side gig.
Leasing gives you:
All of your points are negated by the fact that you can buy a new car and sell it after 3 years and repeat. The only scenario where leasing ends up a “win” for the leaser vs having just bought the car outright from day 1 is when the depreciation of the car was grossly underestimated and you walk away from a car that…
The “hold me over” car is great advice....but if the hold me over lease is going to cost you more in the short term than buying the car and selling it, that doesn’t make sense. And the purchase gives you more flexiblity for the “hold me over” idea. Want to trade in a year or two, fine....market still sucks in 3…
There was a clear switch in peoples minds during and after covid. People are A. Angrier than ever, B. more depressed than ever, C. experiencing an existential crisis D. all of the above x2...Just goes to show how fragile the mind can be.
It’s a good and well intentioned start, but it doesn’t change the underlying problem- we don’t consider the parent who stays home with the kids, or the kids, when we design our transit systems.
I cannot say enough bad things about the Portland Police Bureau which has devolved from mostly useless to worse than useless. The flaccid city government that fails to provide effective oversight or effective crime prevention also deserves bile. I long for the days of Vera Katz and Charles Moose.
That was so ridiculous they did that. Like the West Linn police framing that Black guy for the chief’s friend. And people wonder why a lot of us hate cops.
What’s happening in Portland, and I would imagine other cities as well, is that the cops are psychopaths who got their feelings hurt in the 2020 protests and have been participating in a union slowdown ever since.
It’s almost like PDs the US over have little effect in actually preventing crime, despite the record-high budgets.
Just a reminder: the US police forces have the third highest budget of all armies IN THE WORLD. Just a bit shy of the Chinese Army.
The world’s 3rd largest army is used to police ourselves, against…
A quick prebunking: Portland Police Bureau budget is a quarter billion dollars, up 47% from 9 years ago and is the highest it’s ever been. But at least the police union is no longer run by a guy who tried to frame a City Council member.
It’s freakin’ GA. Capital of Redneckistan. Home to MTG and probably Sen. Herschel. There’s no way bubbas in their ginormous bromobiles will accept paying more than pansy libs driving Leafs and Smart cars. The policy itself is solid, however, the politics preclude this ever happening anywhere in the Deep South, esp. GA.
Because the damage increase does not have a linear relationship to the weight increase, it’s more like an exponential. A semi that weighs up 20X what an average passenger vehicle weighs causes an estimated ~5000X more wear/damage per mile (per WSJ), yet does not use 5000X more fuel, and therefore does not generate…
the biggest factors for me would be headroom and that it’s electric. the rest can be as small as it can be without much difficulty. if I need more room than that I’ll just rent something better suited to the needs of that particular trip.
hell if Sondors Metacycles start showing up used I might get one of those.