the pre-bankruptcy days was when i actually used hertz, because they had a location conveniently close to me....i literally NEVER had them have the car ready on time. the final straw was waiting over an hour and a half past when i got there, and more than 2 hours past the reservation time only to be handed a car so…

and of course the gas station near the airport is 30 cents or more higher than everything else around, for that exact reason.

you know, anytime i see something talking about “common sense regulations”, my skepticism kicks in. a quick glance at this “trucking safety coalition” paints a picture of a fair bit of anti truck bias, being geared towards “help us present the horror stories trucks cause”.

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.