NYC real estate is insane. As for zoning, all those loft buildings artists lived in the 70s were commercial space. All you need us an extra million for a lawyer to get a certificate of occupancy, and rent one of the upper floors for income.

I drove a hand-me-down 1985 Pontiac 6000 in high school. Absolute piece of junk. My dad had pretty much decided to get rid of it when I graduated so when someone ran a stop sign and crunched the rear driver side door he accepted cash from the other driver rather than go through insurance. And of course he didn’t get…

Not automotive but this dude back in 82 riding his cooooool moped showing off in front of two girls walking down the street decides to take a sharp right turn to display some serious lean at 35mph only to realize that the right was into a gravel road. No prob, I can power slide through it, BUT it had major ruts that…

I wasn’t allowed to get my license until I could buy my own car and pay for my own insurance. I did take driver’s ed, but I didn’t have a lot of experience with all the nuances of cars.

The “couldn’t get it to turn over” symptom makes me think something intermittently locked the engine and caused massive amperage draw because the starter was stalled. A short is also a possibility or a combination of the two. 

Living out of a trailer and constantly being on the move year-round sounds absolutely miserable for a child.

It has 84,000 miles on the odometer, so it’s barely broken in.

It’s gotta be. There’s precious few things in a typical automotive electrical system that can draw anywhere near 550A besides a starter motor that aren’t a short.

I would check the oil and make sure it isn’t forbidden milkshake.

Total guess, but if an electrical component blows multiple times, you’ll never fix it by replacing the same things. My guess is there’s some type of arcing that isn’t supposed to be making its way in there. I assume it worked well for a while, before this became a recurring issue, so something outside the fuse box to…

“Will people still be excited enough about a seven-year-old design?”

Cool, can’t wait for them to sell 10 of these and then see them sell for 50% off less than a year after release. 

My kneejerk reaction as a Saab 900Turbo but you did say new car so I’m going with:

The biggest issue for any modern car will be the electronics, and I don’t mean compatibility, but the electrolytic capacitors. They don’t like extreme temperatures that vehicles get subject to, and ones from the 90's and early 2000's are starting to fail now. That being said, as long as there are services to rebuild…

Going on 9 years with my nearly base 2015 Tacoma. It is 4WD, 2.7L 4 cylinder, 5 speed manual, and has been bulletproof since I bought it new.

If I was planning on keeping something for 50+ years, I’d be buying a base Toyota Tacoma. With fewer things to break and cockroach-like reliability, I’d be enjoying the functionality and not spending increasing amounts of time just trying to get things fixed.

The real news in this blog is that DWTS is still on television. 

COTD

Buy it for looks, buy it for life.

No thanks. I’d rather not have a Moen sink knob for a shifter.