the beauty of knobs and buttons is you LEARN them, and then you don’t need to look to change them.

if only she’d spared a second for a seatbelt...

“but that’s where the GPS said to go!”

and yet...i was looking at yukons (and tahoes) in person recently...$3k-$8k “market adjustments” on both, depending on trims, in some cases not mentioned on the dealer’s website (so it can be a surprise when you get there?). sales droid at GMC mentioned management is holding firm on those markups too...

i was poking at ford’s inventory online. can’t find a 4x4 f150 within a couple hundred miles of me with a msrp under $60k, and that’s before you even get into dealer markups.

and yet both the Chevy and GMC dealers where i am are still tacking “market adjustments” onto all of their full size SUVs

I was also thinking mazda, but CX-5. this one is also turbo, with AWD

“half filled gas tank”? my last hertz experience (i’ve refused to use them since) they handed me a car that wasn’t ready till an hour and a half past my reservation time and had so little gas left the fuel light was on. i guess they couldn’t manage to get it to any of the 4 gas stations within a city block radius to…

part of what’s made it so slow and expensive is people that don’t want high speed rail throwing up every legal roadblock they can to slow it down and drive up the cost...a lot of it is the same roadblocks that get thrown up on any project someone doesn’t want, CEQA (noise, traffic disruption, claims of some endangered…

maybe he’s related to this guy from boston?

The Simpsons may have beat you to it...

Personally, I’m less bothered by this than the ones where the garage COMPLETELY dominates the front of the house (hey, i’d like to be able to see out front, at least).

i was thinking similar...the 2000's ranger/mazda b-series. there’s half a dozen examples in budget with under 100k and 4wd within a couple hundred miles on auto trader, one is even a manual. the v6 can be a little thirsty, but according to torque and the info from the ecu, i’m sitting around 27mpg average with the…

I say let the woman travel in cargo and whatever happens happens,

“not flood damaged”

Challenger, Bronco, and the Mini are great nominations.

they’re working on that “fastest route”

this right here. my ELM327 reader is BAFX branded, and it’s still working great with Torque since 2014.

impatience, perhaps? boston market allows online ordering, but with both locations here, even if you ordered ahead through their online ordering, you’re still stuck waiting in line behind the morons that can’t make up their mind what they want to order, while my order sits on the counter getting cold.

probably because it appears to actually have been done well, rather than an awful hack job.  i don’t WANT it, but i respect the effort.