Yes you do, east of Lake of the Woods (coincidentally, where most Micras are sold/registered/driven in Canada).

Well, in your defense, once you leave my current and last city, they drive their own cars, and there are more people outside than inside the city served by these offices.

I have never become trapped by this. Although it does go along with the concept...

On a dark New Brunswick Highway, cool wind in my hair.
Warm smell of poutine, rising up through the air.
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night.

Not all do.

One of the postal service’s largest problems is that they buy in such bulk so infrequently. They should be slowly rotating their fleet over time to realize gains from newer technology. The LLVs were all built from 87-94, all have the old Iron Duke motor, and a positively ancient 3-speed automatic transmission. These…

It depends on how rural. I live in a rural place where they drive LLVs and I used to live in a rural place where they used LLVs. Both of these places require attaining highway speeds in them periodically (in fact, they also tend to obstruct highway traffic because they’re crazy slow).

I’m going to say it was the late-80s or early-90s. My uncle had, through neglect, successfully broken down quite seriously somewhere deep in the desert of SoCal again. Too far for AAA to tow him. My grandfather got a call about it, but grandpa still needed to take my grandmother to an appointment that afternoon, so…

That open sunroof, though. Uck.

I hate the color scheme here. I thought NV was RAV4 like VT, MA, & DE. I think FL is the one with Corolla.

The fender trim is how they make it look like it has even more suspension travel. It’s part of how they sell this as an expensive CUV/SUV rather than a cheap hatchback car.

We’re entering a similar era. Their only option in the coming years is hybrids for small performance cars or paying gas guzzler taxes. The path of least resistance is to make everything an “SUV” so they can avoid the car rules. We’ll see a lot more of these until electric drivetrains supplant ICEs.

Sort of.

VT is eastern Subaru country. It’s like the PNW & CO.

My first thought, couldn’t see why they didn’t recommend it. The FJ is kind of a shortened version of it, but they’re all used, expensive, and somewhat hard to come by, so the obvious answer is the 4Runner. The fact they retain value like crazy also means that you just buy it new with such a huge budget and sell it in…

Their birth year span was based on birth rates, which correlated with the age of their parents (their parents are primarily the generation that fought in WWII).

Please explain this added magic generation to me. Who are they? Why was Gen-X only 6 years? Oregon Trail was released in 1971, a full 10 years before the very first Millennials were born.

I’ve been saying this for years. It’s not just trucks, either, it’s also new cars and especially houses. Many of us have delayed children as long as we can to try to be stable enough to support them, which will further exacerbate the problem.

They’re close in a lot of metro areas. Where I live people that make way more than the median income (we’re talking at least double it) are picking at the low end of the market for the few remaining scraps. Average older middle-class homes are 1M+ if they’re not a brutal commute from anywhere you might work. As a…

Your employer probably isn’t adjusting withholdings yet/properly. Everyone gets at least a tiny reduction in federal taxes. They could easily be offset by rising taxes elsewhere, though. State taxes could negate it entirely.