Wonder what Volvo is going to do about its fleet sales. Recently I was looking for a new’ish car and though about the V60. Almost all of the used V60s were former rental cars. That cannot be helping their image. Depreciation is also noteworthy in a bad way.

It is also very difficult for refiners to build new facilities that are more capable of producing higher octane. No one wants one in their back yard and regulations make it even more expensive.

I was on vacation and went up Pike Peak last week. They had sections of pavement scraped out near the top. They didn’t have any large pavement roller up there, so this is not surprising.

It will be dismissed when he goes to traffic court. No surprise when that happens.

Getting so that you cannot go or do anything without being recorded these days.

Most states have laws regulating bounty hunters and giving them legal authority. Texas is one of those states. These were legal yahoos operating under the law. Bounty hunters, though not technically an accurate name, serve a purpose in the legal system. The police are not staffed to find bail jumpers and return them…

My parents had one in a 1980 Ford Econoline van. Slow, but still faster than a Chevette. The original engine ran for 70K miles before cracking a piston on a long, higher speed interstate trip. Lesson learned was that though inline 6 engines are supposed to be well balanced, this engine didn’t handle high RPMs with…

I was shopping a Chevrolet dealership in the very late 90s. We’ll just call it the Monster Truck dealership because all their commercials were exactly like monster truck / tractor pull commercials, but with different words. Yeah, Oklahoma in the 1990s was consistently typecast.

“Relative”. You are correct. The engines wouldn’t start the rotation of the earth and the brakes couldn’t stop it.

Wow! Your repertoire of witty replies is quite impressive for someone of your intellectual capabilities.

A friend of mine had a dealership trying to back out of a contract, but the kicker was that his trade-in had already gone to auction. The dealership said that they had plenty of used cars that they’d be happy to work out a “good deal” on as a trade-in replacement. They said they would not submit the paperwork for…

Well you devalued your comment at the second word you typed. Lack of class is also inferred from the choice of words as much as the accent and grammar.

Darn skippy! Same here. After a week I was like “Take this brand new 200 back. I’d rather drive my plain 2004 Accord with the broken (getting fixed) A/C around in TX in July rather than this......this.......calamity of engineering.” The only redeeming thing the 200 had was the A/C was cold.

My choice is the 2.0T. The V6 is smoother, but doesn’t seem as spirited. The 2.0T has wicked power for its size, but the boost comes on suddenly after a 1.2 sec spin-up. V6 suffers on MPG, but this is inconsistent from car to car. The 2.0T has pretty good MPG overall. The weight diff in the front is noticeable between…

You sure someone didn’t just pull over and back up to the broken down PT cop car to see if they needed help.

V6 power was the one bright point in GM engines in the 80s.

Had an Iron Duke in an X-Body. Horrible engine, but it allowed me to learn how to fix all sorts of things. Maybe “allowed” isn’t the correct term since we were too poor to have other people fix our transportation. Leaked oil out of the valve cover, ate alternator belts every 5K, blew out numerous cooling system…

The devil is in the fine print. Each manufacturer has their own take on the bumper to bumper. Some cover certain (long term) wear items and some have exclusions for certain vehicle systems. For example, batteries were not covered by Acura, but are by Subaru. Acura didn’t warranty replacing badly damaged (pad failure…

I am old enough to remember the airline industry when it was ‘regulated’. Airline travel was generally for business and people that had more money that the average person. Prices were higher, but service was generally good. Then there was the period of a few decades after deregulation that prices were notably lower,…

Yes and No. “No” because Buick doesn’t have too much history of wagons. However, there are a few “Yes”. 1) Though they have smaller SUVs, a more versatile offering is missing from Buick and other manufacturers (Subaru) are doing very well in that niche. 2) All the other GM brands don’t seem to be embracing the sport…