The thing is worth at $400-500 as scrap, more than the asking price just in parts, and if you had the proper equipment to pull the engine, none of the parts needed to fix the leaks or the suspension are actually all that expensive. The cost would be in the interior parts - and we don’t really know how bad it is…

Almost small enough to be an RC model nowadays...

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Deducting sales tax instead of income tax has nothing to do with what you owe on your mortgage.

What you owe on your mortgage might have an impact on whether you itemize or not, but in today’s world of extraordinarily low interest rates, your mortgage balance would be a small portion of your overall itemized…

You can deduct sales taxes in all 50 states - the catch is that you can’t deduct sales taxes AND income taxes. One or the other. For many people, switching to deducting sales taxes make sense in years when you make a large purchase like a car.

The Chevrolet Grommet would be marketing genius if they sold the Chevrolet Wallace as well.

Same thing can be said for most hybrids over an EV. Or even many non-hybrids over hybrids, depending on driving habits. Doesn’t seem to stop the sales...

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We don’t really know which is cheaper yet. GM has set their price, Tesla has promised a price. If (and that’s always a big if) Tesla makes their price, then it will start at a slightly lower mark than the Bolt will start in its first year. However, what about equipment? Tesla could make their price by…

Quite a few, actually.

Illinois has no training requirements if you’re 21 or older. Around college campuses this becomes very noticeable as you have residents from all over the world who have had no training, all wanting to drive using habits they’ve witnessed back home. So for some, right hand turns from the left hand…

Could it happen? Sure, but it will take more than an automated Lyft/Uber.

First off, I keep my cars a long time, so my cost is well under $9000 per year per car. With depreciation, insurance, repairs, maintenance, and fuel, I’m looking at more on the order of $2750-3000 per year per car. So the cost for an automated…

I’ll make this plain and simple for you. People like the ass in the video that started this chain don’t care if you are passing someone. They’re tailgating and driving recklessly. There is no way to change lanes safely when you’re done making the pass with a reckless driver on your tail.

Drive like a sane person and…

Most of the cargo area in the Highlander comes from the volume above the seats - so if you want cargo stacked up to the roof ready to fly forward as projectiles or fall on your kids if you hit the brakes, yeah, there’s a lot of space.

Consider this example - Ford Focus sedan v. hatchback. The hatchback is listed at…

Except that almost invariably, I’ve found the trunk volume on a sedan is just as big (or very often - bigger) than the usable cargo volume in a SUV/CUV based off the same chassis. The SUV/CUV only comes out a winner for cargo when you take out passengers and fold seats down.

I made this the other night. Came out nicely. Nothing mind-shattering, but a nice sauce.

I took it down just short of soft-ball temp - I’d wager if you took it to hard crack, you could get some nice naturally-flavored hard candy...

There’s no one channel for all makes - but for Fords, I’ve found FordTechMakuloco to be a pretty darned good source.

And that silent scream is always followed 10 seconds or so later by an ear-piercing wail once they actually catch their breath...

That’s nothing. You should have seen Cincinnati yesterday. Pockets of heavy rain clouds that simply weren’t moving - if you were under them, you were getting up to 2-3 inches per hour for several hours straight. I got about a tenth of an inch by me - a mile to the south they got about an inch. Another mile south and…

VERY true. That’s why I would propose raising the tax not just to create a pigouvian tax to discourage purchase of inefficient vehicles, but also to raise money to finally fix the roads.

You clearly haven’t driven a Trax. Not worth anywhere near $3700 over 3 years. The Trax is a truly miserable vehicle.

This was actually a 2 year lease they’re referring to at that dealer, and the lease terms weren’t fully disclosed in the ad - from my experience with Chevy dealers around here, when they advertise a…

All the more reason why we should raise gas taxes by a large amount, then use the money to

1) Actually repair our roads (not expand - we shouldn’t do that until we can maintain what we already have, and generally expansion is heavily focused in urban areas where smarter, more economical solutions other than just…

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The Trax isn’t worth $77 per month with $999 down.

What a piece of junk.