fly and ride adventure sounding tempting right now...

buying from a dealer? probably 3 or 4 days drive back, and fly out.

that ‘aftermarket suspension’ going on with the Camaro in slide 8 is a set of leaf spring traction bars...keeps the axle from twisting the leaf springs (and wheelhopping itself into a broken axle shaft) when you lay into the loud pedal.

I guess mine arent either, thankfully.

It probably used to be more like 35-40, and I think used to be 4 lanes...there was a big thing awhile back about making things more bike friendly, which meant a bunch of 4 lane streets restriped to 1 each way with a shared left turn lane and bike lanes. It's proximity to a "posted 45, reality more like 60" street is…

Figured out where this is...I think there’s a few contributing factors to why it’s such an issue:

i think my mazda missed the memo. 6' bed, and i hauled home a couple of 20 foot long 2x10's out the back of the bed. gate up, some 2x4's laid vertically under them for support, a few bags of cement stacked on them at the front of the bed, and a couple ratchet straps over the top and lasso’d over the ends.  note i did…

this. kick one of the mentions of california off the list (i even say this living there) or hell, Nevada. The RANGE of terrain and views in Utah is mind boggling.

i ended up telling off Mazda salesperson from the next town over megadealer; we’d stopped in looking at BUYING a 3, they harassed us endlessly with lease offers.

Yup, having dealt with a couple Kia dealerships in my area...the Stinger’s worst enemy (and Kia’s overall, really) is Kia dealerships.  They’re still trapped in that barely-above-a-buy-here-pay-here-scummy-used-car-lot mentality instead of practically letting the cars sell themselves.

we have a SI in the household...that manual is high on the list, though i haven’t been able to talk anyone into handing me the keys to an RSX or S2k.

he sent an agent in his place so you wouldn’t know it was him.

but by the time it makes it through the mail, at least half of them will have vanished.

i want to say it was Hot Rod that had an article some years back on the supercharged Grand Prix when they were new, did a stock/mild/wild comparo, but google has failed me at finding any references to it.

bad wording on my part...working out with the better half to share a car...shuffling work schedules to accommodate only having one car instead of the usual two.

That, and for some inexplicable reason, AAA still uses them for rentals when your car is in for insurance work. I used to rent from Hertz for sheer convenience since they’re close, but it was bad enough that not only did we stop, we turned down the offered rental the last time and opted to instead balance sharing a…

haven’t gotten to look inside one, but seen a couple out and about; what you mention about “something the Ranger used to do” is exactly the vibe i got; it’s a modern version of what the ranger was, and, factoring in the bigger cab, it seems pretty close in size to my single cab Ranger-clone.

the same way a San Francisco Mayor can blab key evidence in a serial killer case and still have a long career in CA politics? Party affiliation.

i sincerely hope we have better nav options in the early 20,000's, not that any of us will be alive to see them.

that was a big part of it, yeah. when i was in the market, neither of the ford dealers (nor most of the other dealers around) would even give me the time of day, and internet shopping wasn’t nearly what it is now (early 2000's).