Y’know, it’s possible that your experience with people on funky bicycles could just be due to the fact that you live in Chapel Hill. ;) (you do live there, right? or did i get that wrong?)

Good to know...and good luck! 83k miles on mine.

Plans: Leave schedule open for carting kids/family around and running errands. Hopefully go kayaking and fishing.

Me too! I bought a low-mileage used one last year and I’m hoping it lasts. So far, no major issues.

Question: What is an honest, but not rude answer to the question “So how much do you want to spend per month?”, if I really just want to focus on the final price and not on monthly payments?

Hmm, good to know. I live near this one.

2nd Gear: Fiat Chrysler Is Recalling More Than 400,000 Cars

Why would the manuals be more efficient than (newer) automatics and CVTs? I know this used to be the case, but I thought the newer autos were more efficient than manuals, at least they are rated as such. Also, if true, would the manuals also have better MPGs in both city *and* highway driving, or one over the other?

I have a 2007 Nissan Altima with a CVT. I don’t know if that is the 1st generation that they started having CVTs, but I have not had any issues so far. For a non-guzzling family sedan, it does everything that it needs to. But it is not an enthusiast car in any sense of the word. The 2007- 2013 Altimas actually seem to…

Love these GIFs.

“When you’re driving, the last thing you want to be doing is trying to focus extra hard on what you’re looking at.”

Indeed, but then nobody remembers the followup or the correction. Just the initial headline.

“Just walk” is all fine and good, except for the fact that we, as a society, refuse to invest the necessary money and time in building a more walkable, transit-based infrastructure that can facilitate a reduction in car ownership, miles driven, and ultimately lower overall energy use.

And it’s from the Daily-freaking-Mail, to top it off.

Take a Daily Mail article at face value? Nope.

Hell yeah, recycle the raw materials. We’re probably a bit far off with easy supply chain / processes to execute such a thing (car battery recycling into continual use as a car battery, not just as a power source for a factory or something) but if that is possible, it solves so many of the downstream waste problems.

That interior and especially that overhead light look like they came right out of Star Trek:Deep Space Nine. Love it!

Such long-term vision.

Now *this* is how you start a thread.

THANK YOU...tired of seeing out of date info and talking points show up in these threads.