Probably an unpopular opinion around here, but I’m with the dealership on this one. My local dealership used to have like 200 cars on the lot and now they maybe have 15. They have hardly any cars to sell and they need to make whatever money they can to stay in business right now. If people are going to pay their…

My wife currently has an Outback that she likes off-roading on fire road type trails. Right now we have 2 kids but if we went to 3 and we wanted to hit some trails on a long road trip, this would be ideal. Basically decent tires and skid plates would get us through anything she wants to do. Once the rocks get to…

I was thinking this too. I once had my truck cut out on the highway and I got down an off ramp, into a side street and parked along the side street with momentum and no power steering. Once I got out I realized I was in an extremely sketchy part of town, but I survived and nobody bothered me while I got it fixed.

Keep looking. My local dealer has like 10 in stock and they’re asking sticker for them, with more inbound.

Neutral: I live just outside Philly and I’m currently waiting for a package from USPS that was supposed to be here on Saturday the 2nd. On Saturday the tracking says it got to Philly and would be delivered on Monday. Whatever, not a big delay. Monday it says it’s in New York City, with no ETA, this morning it says…

I think they mean instead of using rare metals like lithium they should be using wisely available metals like iron. I think plenty of people are already working on different battery chemistries though.

Given that most of my commute I’m stuck behind other cars going less than 40 mph, hypermiling is definitely a fun substitute for taking turns quickly or hitting a high speed. While it would be fun to get to work as quickly as possible in one of my other vehicles, the other cars on the way and the cops wouldn’t…

That sounds like a awesome road trip. As a car enthusiast currently sitting in his commuter Prius, yeah, he should just get the Prius.

They brought up Carvana as a good example, but everyone I’ve known who’s bought a car from Carvana said it didn’t turn out like they wanted and they wouldn’t do it again. I don’t see online used car shopping working out long term.

The reason for the highway turning is that the state highways were named after there were already roads there. They want them to go in a north-south direction or an east-west direction. Since the original roads that were there before they came up with this idea weren’t necessarily straight in one direction,…

I agree. Both gross. Both very different flavors. 

At work I move GM cars for a lot of the day. Typically no more than 50 feet, with nobody else around. I often move cars a few feet with the door open and it annoys me that some automakers will not let me move out of park with the door open. I have already encountered a few Cadillac vehicles that have this feature and…

It’s funny, I usually do road trips in my wife’s Outback and I love the adaptive cruise, especially in slow traffic. When I’m driving by myself, though, I want a manual and no adaptive cruise. The only thing they’re leaving off that I would want is the automatic high beam assist. I would imagine they’re only leaving…

I get pre-collision notifications all the time on my wife’s Outback and occasionally it starts braking. I drive a lot of cars and I've never gotten a notice on anything else. Anyone who has been in a car with me also knows I'm anything but am aggressive driver.

The terrible part is you’ve still only touched on part of what’s going on. And every time they make a statement about ‘We’ll reflect on this and try to do better in the future.’ Then the next development is worse than the last. I enjoy the game, probably not quitting, but I’m definitely not spending money on it until…

Every time somebody complains to me about gas prices lately, I say ‘Yeah, it took $27 to fill my Prius last week and it only got me 500 miles.’ It’s pretty much all pickup and SUV drivers that complain. Nobody is making fun of me for the Prius right now.

GM made and still makes a lot of money off of financing cars, but Carvana is making money off of financing the vehicles then selling those loans. The selling of the loans is the risky part, and if that ceases to be profitable, which is very likely, then their profits go away. GM financing vehicles will always be…

I bought a used plug-in Prius for $13,800 back in 2016. I do about half of my commute in electric and the rest in gas. I get over 500 miles per tank this way. I get over 400 miles per tank without charging it. There are plenty of affordable ways to go electric. Even when I'm not charging this is way cheaper than most…

I was talking an average suburban police department. They don’t normally get civil suits. Detroit has something like 3,000 police vehicles, so that would be a cost of $6,000,000 on the low end, and it probably wouldn’t lead to a reduction in civil suits.

And she “didn’t pay it all back” — she had her pension seized to pay it back.