I’ve done it a few times and found that the best way to handle that town is to just go absolutely feral and start driving like the locals.

I recently traded in a sub-compact car with ten upstate NY winters worth of rust, 100k+ miles, and maybe one un-dented body panel for over 30% of the original MSRP. And that’s what I got from a dealership, not a private sale. I think 2-3 years before it’s easy to get any kind of “deal” on a used car is optimistic.

Yeah, the “sell the car and buy something cheaper” advice really only holds up if the expensive car is also running high maintenance costs, which the Tesla won’t be. The used car market is starting to cool off a bit, but it’s still going to be difficult to find something reliable for what he could get selling the…

The Voyager was also flying at about a quarter the airspeed of a commercial airliner.

Citroen Traction Avant; Front wheel drive and unibody construction has been the default passenger car template for nearly a century.

Paul Newman went the other way and had a GNX motor put into a Volvo 740.

The only time I’ve ever been pulled over was for an illegal right on red. I got away with a warning, because the cop saw that I had been stopped for a good 20 seconds before I made the turn. Also, it was pre-GPS days, and I had a paper map on the passenger’s seat to back up my story that I was too focused on figuring…

I feel like the exterior treatment is both of very much of its time but tastefully restrained. I almost like it. However, the interior of that car was miserable even by the standards of late ‘90s GM products, and they somehow managed to make it worse.

The only way this makes sense is if he rolled over negative equity on his tradein. And by “sense”, I mean mathematical sense not cognitive sense.

The mere fact that they got the road closed in under two minutes is amazing and probably depended on DOT dispatch sending out a blast to everyone in the region to get moving if they were anywhere close. I don’t think there would be any reasonable way to get information to employees of a private contractor that quickly.

There’s the cost of the software, then there’s the cost of cutting over to it. Some of that is in training hours, but a lot of it is emotional. Sometimes there’s this paradox where people are presented with a more efficient way of doing things, but feel like they’re too busy to learn it. That paralysis gets amplified…

Designing turn signals for BMW must be the easiest engineering job out there, because nobody will ever know if you get it wrong.

The dish soap itself wouldn’t bother me if it was in the assembly spec. But since it wasn’t there’s probably no paper trail of which planes got soaped up and which ones didn’t. Maybe it matters, maybe it doesn’t, but it does make me concerned about what other steps they’ve been improvising.

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There was definitely a period where manufacturers were trying to get ahead of the backup camera mandate by installing screens, but they were small and useless for anything else.

“...but I meant how many people actually carry a car payment in perpetuity.”

The ‘09 Forester update wasn’t nearly as heinous as the redesigned Outback that also launched that year. It took two more generations to finally get the proportions right-ish on that.

That’s probably because the majority of those huge homes are owned by people old enough to not have kids in the school district.

Also, Enviolo has an automatic controller for their continuously variable planetary hub. The CVP is another one of those things that’s been floating around for twenty years, but hasn’t really caught on due to the weight and limited gearing range.

Also, the front seat didn’t become more dangerous than the back for kids until airbags came along.