130,000 miles of wear and tear.

We were planning on replacing the 08 Sienna within the next year or so anyway. So spending 6k to fix a motor only to keep the car another year or so didn't make sense when I could use that money towards my downpayment.

I’ve resorted to the Fire Department analogy to get through to my conservative family members:

You’re not getting political. You’re revealing a fundamental compassion/moral compass.

Thanks to Tom for letting us into this, I’d never have thought about this issue otherwise and I like to think I try to consider the struggles others may face.

Yup. Call me a commie all day long if you like, but in a country as rich as this one every single person should have access to the basic necessities of life. That means food, water, shelter, education, healthcare, and mobility. Doesn’t have to be fancy, but nobody should be hungry, thirsty, homeless, ignorant, sick,…

The A110 is a fairly direct competitor to the 4C, which is as close to a mini-Ferrari as you can get until Fiat makes another Dino…

Or maybe we should give bad advice so people set their sights on uninteresting cars. For example :

Too afraid to give anyone ideas.  If we’re all quiet, maybe the prices won’t go up.

Not every drive is the same. I want to choose my own gears when I’m driving somewhere that I can enjoy a heel toe downshift. I want the lane keep assist and radar cruise when I have 200 miles of interstate ahead of me where I pretty much won’t be shifting.

I have a 2017 Mazda6 manual and would love if it had adaptive cruise and lane keep assist. Confusingly, in 2017 you could get all that with manual on a Mazda3 hatchback but not on the Mazda6.

I think this is dead on. When you bundle a feature into only the basest of options, it’s going to look like it doesn’t sell. The same thing happened to the 2 door VW Golf/GTI and non-crew cab pickups. If I sold Snickers bars in a package along with a swift kick to the groin, my Snickers sales would look terrible. 

I want some of the modern features but only in a double-DIN aftermarket head unit. I think we should all pool our last gasp resources in Lotus.

My frustration is that nearly all manufacturers missed the transition from “manuals are for cheap loser cars only” to “enthusiasts with disposable income want manuals in their enthusiast cars.”

Now THAT’S a Jalop story!

Always a thrill to see an article about the Ridley Scott Superbowl commercial.

I vaguely remember a Maxima ad where they drive it into a cargo plane as it is taking off...  I thought it was cool when I was a kid. Probably the only 30 seconds in which I ever wanted a Nissan.

Since high school i dreamt of the z32. Finally got one w/ low miles last month and i cant stop looking at it :stupid drool face:

Like I said, the law does not prevent them for pulling you over for driving at night without headlights. You are reading a site that is into sensationalizing the news.

I was driving thru the middle of Wisconsin in the middle of the night when off in the distance we could see something. We immediately slowed down and started looking for Deer. Came up on a VW Microbus running with no lights at all by starlight. Right as we said what an Idiot, State Trooper pulled him over

I’m going to take a stab in the dark here. The logic is likely that state inspections will handle lights being out. This prevents you getting pulled over for something silly that then escalates to something else*. VA will probably still allow you to be pulled over for driving on a dead inspection sticker because then…