You are missing the point. Put badges and fancy bumpers on the cars if that’s what people want, but stop making mid-tier cars and SUVs with rock hard suspension and insanely aggressive transmission tunes. I’d love an X3 M40i, but I want it to be comfortable to drive while also being fast.

Storage for sure. Our small base has a few lots full of cars, boats, RVs, all kinds of stuff that deployed marines and even civilians can keep there.

I hate to burst your bubble, but military bases already have this exact thing for soldiers and the like. I’m a civilian working on a Navy base, so I can use the auto hobby shop. It’s run almost exactly as this article describes, rent the lift and it comes with a full tool chest and plenty of other equipment for 6…

This is probably more common that most think. Washington DC and Alexandria, VA where I live both have the same type of sewer system that overflow into the Potomac River. Both cities are currently spending billions of dollars and digging ginormous tunnels to solve the problem.

You're bitching about plugging in a PHEV every day, but you know you have to do the same with EVs as well, right? And your phone? And probably watch? It's zero effort. And on long trips when the battery runs down, you still get better mileage than a standard ICE car. 

You clearly aren’t the use case, so let it go. I commute 55 miles a day, but also like to take road trips that fill up my entire Grand Cherokee. I bought a Mach-E to help the environment and save cash on gas, but charging infrastructure sucks on any road outside a major city or population zone, so I have to take my…

It seems I’m still one of the rare people that has seen a Cybertruck up close. The local dealer had one in the showroom that I got to sit in and play with. Just imagine taking a normal vehicle and cladding it with sheets of 3/16" stainless steel. That’s the body. No rolled edges at the seams, just sheets of metal that…

Kinda funny you refer to the Diesel Bros as “youtube mechanics” since they actually have a TV show in addition to their huuuuge YouTube following.

Where? I tried to lease a '23 GTPE in the DC area and payments were double that. 

12k a year. 

I don’t see a single person that would admit to buying a fake car that was crushed and rebuilt from arguably the worst movie in a niche franchise. Why not buy an actual Saleen for way cheaper and paint it lizzstick red if that’s what you want? This car isn’t worth driving for free with an auto, stock engine, and stock…

Good lord, how much do houses cost in Dearborn?? I looked at the Detroit area pay scale for federal workers and they earn only 3% lower locality pay than Washington DC! So assuming the same high school education level, the UAW thinks you should earn more money working for 4 years on a vehicle assembly line than you…

If you are in a starting position or a couple years in maybe you shouldn’t be buying a new car to begin with?? I didn’t have a new car til I was 30 and it only cost $30k.

I don’t think you could be more wrong on both accounts. 

Maybe it has something to do with the massive mark-ups on any popular EV?? I was really interested in a Mach-E GTPE when they came out, but they were impossible to find. When a local dealer had one on their site, I showed up to find it was the pre-ordered car of a sales manager who straight up told me he was going to…

Another PHEV option not available in the US? I’m actively searching for a fun to drive PHEV mid-sized crossover and coming up real short on options. I have a 50 mile/day commute and would love to do most of that on battery, but don’t want full electric. Hoping the new SQ5 or a variant of the new X3 is plug-in. The X5…

I wonder how many people here complaining about Jeep and Chrysler reliability have owned one recently? My 2014 Grand Cherokee Summit has 117k miles now, owned since 5k. It went to the dealer once for a rocker repair, only from an odd noise, not an actual malfunction. Other than a few pesky leaks here and there, it’s…

“Rated for” is totally different than breaking strength. Factory 55 isn’t designing something to break at the force they tell you it can withstand. I work with explosives and we proof test lifting slings to 3x of the factory rating. I watched our guys hang 19k pounds from a 6.3k rated strap, no problem.
Plus in that…

I won a paper airplane contest in middle school making a dart almost exactly like this really expensive Boeing project.  Found the design in a paper airplane book.

Why would the strap break?  It looks to be a Factor 55 kinetic recovery rope, made for running starts and using the stretch of the rope to assist in the pull.  I had a rope like this for years and it worked many times to pull me and other vehicles out of mud, sand, and snow.