That’s a foul.

Also: bicycles. And e-bikes. My 5 mile commute is usually faster on an e-bike and massively less frustrating than in a car (or motorcycle for that matter). I actually look forward to my commute each morning and evening. For winter (live in Michigan), I just got the right gear and am considering a fat bike with winter…

Also an excellent example of how people who are good at stuff can still be complete morons.

Obviously it’s both. To think otherwise would be to assume that the greatest racing drivers in the world are so simply because they’re rich (obviously not true if you look at the personal histories of many successful F1 drivers). If that were the case, why on Earth would you watch it?

It’s definitely a CP at that price, but I still want it.

+1 for “cockwaffle”.

2nd Gen Porsche Cayenne S.

I am by no means a Simmons hater, but that first video was hilarious as a “highlight” reel. That was some of the most mundane NBA action conceivable.

Definitely. And a very shady dealer I had to threaten with a lawsuit in order get some repair costs out of.

No doubt. The ball joint I think is a known issue on these. The brake line may have been road debris I suppose, but there was no perceived incident that occurred before walking out to a vehicle with no brake fluid in it (all of it was on the floor of the garage). I guess part of my point was to say that yeah, $5500…

Indeed, my conclusion after a bunch of investigating is that the car was at least partially flooded. It didn’t show up on the Carfax, but I eventually used the VIN to register on Toyota’s maintenance site where I could see more details about maintenance. One of the visits had notes that said “park in garage with…

We got a used 2013 Limited Ecoboost a year ago. Love it. Hauls hilarious ass and gear and has the most legroom front and back you’ll find.

I was the second owner. I’m mostly to blame in all honesty. Given the rarity of these, I bought one sight unseen from a dealer about 3 hours away. Had a solid carfax, one owner (which I’m now convinced means precisely jack shit), really clean. Ended up threatening to sue him based on all of the, at best, “mistakes” in…

No, that was generally the time when I was crying into my checkbook.

That measures powertrain reliability. Definitely the most important area from a cost standpoint, but none of my problems were with the powertrain. It was essentially everything else.

My dad had a RWD Astro. That thing spun like a top in moderate snow.

No doubt, still bitter about mine. I do wonder however, how much of the mystique of a vehicle’s reliability is genuine and how much is based on anecdote.

I generally love LC’s and their Lexus cousins. But these are thirsty, slow, don’t tow much, and expensive to fix. If you’re willing to sacrifice all of that for the one thing these are great at, driving off road, and the bottom isn’t a rusted out husk, and the timing belt’s been done, and there are no electrical…

Tell that to my 2000 LC that almost never left the shop over the 3 years we owned it.

It’s almost as if Wall Street has no idea, generally, what they are doing.