Hadn’t heard of oil leak problems in NCs, so I did a quick search.   Turns out that the oil leaks are a bigger problem with the NA and NB than the NC.    And the engine sitting back is done for weight distribution - and it’s still easier to work on than about 99% of the vehicles out there.

I’ll let Doug Demuro respond to that:

Just look at used EV prices - they’ve cratered.   People are so far underwater in their EV loans they make the Titanic seem to float.

Bench seats and going to the drive in movies with my girlfriend.

We have some houses similar to this in our neighborhood. It’s harder to see what’s going on in the driveway from inside the house, and the shorter driveway can create parking problems - it’s not unusual when there are more than two cars in the driveway for the last car to hang out almost into the street, blocking the…

If they *really* cared about costs (and maximizing shareholder benefit) they would cut executive pay and benefits.

The Beetle will be back as an EV, with the engine in the back as God intended, and not like the front engine atrocity known as the “New Beetle”.

If you are just leasing, the other options have some traction.  If you are buying and planning on keeping it beyond the warranty period then you are out of your mind to buy the G wagon or Land Rover anything.

Cheap tires aren’t that big of a bargain - by the time you add in mounting, balancing, and alignment the savings become quite a bit less as a percentage of the total cost.

Ford worked hard to kill their cars in the US. Didn’t update them (other than very minor facelifts) when their competitors kept coming out with all new cars and didn’t fix critical flaws like the auto trans in the focus.

Used car prices are going to be crappy for quite a while because the number of new cars built after the start of the pandemic was significantly reduced.   So there is a shortage of future used cars.

Ford killed its car sales by not updating their cars and not fixing disasterous problems like the Focus automatic transmission.

What would it take to get me on a bike?

Twitter now has around $1B in yearly interest payments due to the buyout. Before, Twitter just about broke even. With a recession coming on advertisers tend to reduce spending. So Twitter has to cut costs and find new revenue streams. Streams that will probably annoy their users.

You can fit four adults in a (two door) MINI - if you use a blender on the two adults in the back.

What’s funny is that normally there is about a 30 day supply.   So a 25 day supply isn’t all that less.   Plus more diesel was shipped *out* of the US in 2022 than in 2021......

The LS engines weigh about the same as the 911 engines. 

Take the Miata platform, stretch it a few inches, drop in the I6, and make it a coupe.

Why in the world did Tesla make their own chargers?

I’ve long considered the 1973-1977 GM intermediates the worst of the lot.  Ugly, bloated, and crippled by smog regulation choked engines.  The next generation was a vast improvement.