It’s not an Abarth, like my ‘15, but the vast majority of what I use my car for, this would be a one-to-one replacement. It will get me 15 miles to the nearest commuter bus. It’ll get me 75 miles roundtrip if I miss the bus, especially with a charger at work. I get groceries in a 500 all the time. The fold “almost…

Yes. But she takes better care of them than I ever did (makes them Dr’s appointments, keeps them in clean skivvies). It’s an acceptable trade-off for some of us. 

The only difference between “headliner fabric” and “regular fabric” is that headliner fabric is very thin, and adhered to a similarly thin layer of flame retardant foam. Find a decently sized bolt of pajama fleece (most ‘on-body’ blanket style fabrics tend to be flame retardant), and glue it on there. You might have…

Oh, wow. That is a fine piece of steel. You're breaking my heart/wallet. 

I’ve done this exact procedure on a 99 XJ. It’s a bunch of screws, pop the trim pieces off, pop the dome light out, rip-wipe-spray-unroll-trim, get a second person to help you put it back in. I think it took me all of an hour, and that was with a 6 year old asking me questions every minute and a half.

I do two on mine occasionally with a home brew, because I don’t want to roof rack messing up my fuel mileage on the other 6 days a week when I don’t have boats on the roof. Foam blocks + plenty of straps works fine unless it's suuuuper windy. Then it blows me all over the road. 

Y’all are underestimating the Fiat 500 Abarth. Put a roof rack on (or just get creative with your straps) and two kayaks fit fine. I’ve done it with mine. I don’t have any dual boat pictures, but here’s how it looks with one 11 foot boat on top.

I’m in the rural exurbs, moved from farm to townhouse, then here. The modern 1/2 ton trucks are as nice inside as pretty much any SUV, and the bed is handy for the occasional bicycle or load of camping gear. I think the mini bro dozer thing, combined with SUVs becoming the new minivan, combined with better fuel…

First time I’ve ever seen purple, but I don’t hate it!

Stephen, A lot depends on how big your camper is. Just purchased a Ram 2500 (Grew up driving Dodge/GMC/Ford/Vw Rabbits, little of everything. IMO, they have very comfortable interiors. We camp with 2 adults, 2 kids, and a 6' tall teenager. Adding in a week’s worth of gear, and weight distribution hitch for a 6000lb…

No air brakes yet, but a whole shit-ton of the 2019 Ram 25/3500s I’ve been looking at have factory goosenecks mounted between the frame rails. Up here in horse country (Western NoVa), it’s at least a 20% chance that a random truck sitting on the lot will have factory bags, auto self-leveling, and a gooseneck or fifth…

That’s my point. The laps of pointless horseshit are anything but. They’re pre-race smack talk, burnouts, and staging all in the same block of time. 

Shame on you for doubting!

Gonna throw a b.s. flag on this one. All of the dancing and track-standing leads up to a 2000+ wattage bazooka once they sprint. Think of it as an NHRA drag with a single lane (drafting gives a huge advantage to the wheelsucker). The average recreational cyclist maxes out at a couple hundred watts over 45 minutes. Top…

There is an opportunity for peaceful resolution here..

(f) 9:35 here..

Quite a few long legged, long backed breeds ‘dog track’. Above a walk, below a run (what you would call on a horse cantering), the dog’s rear paw prints are out of alignment with the front, especially if on a leash. Crabbing would be the entire vehicle significantly out at both axles but the tracks overlap. If the…

Did-A-Chick? Dum-A-Chum? Snip the bumper, off your bum.

I would pay pretty good money for a L3 option that actually performed in traffic jams only. Some sort of incremental rollout that starts with conditional activation.

I was just sitting here thinking about plasti dipping the corners of the fascia on my blacktop package Caravan. Maybe red.