This is hilarious to me. I have a neighbor who has twice said explicitly that a man is more manly if he has a big truck. This guy, who owns a lifted Tundra, is a construction worker and he ends up driving long distances as a commute. Well, his lifted Tundra gets 8 mpg (he told me) so he doesn’t drive it to work. He…

A fleet vehicle that only drives predictable routes in city centers makes much more sense as an EV than a personal vehicle.

A nice used Tracker / Sidekick will do so as well probably for  less than the side by side and offer creature comforts like heat air and windows plus you can drive it on the road.

I had never driven a jeep and always liked the look/idea of them. I worked at Enterprise part time during school and we had one Wrangler that I eventually had a chance to drive. Could not believe how shitty an experience that was and it immediately killed any desire to own one. 

I loved proper jeeps growing up and always wanted one.

A Jeep Wrangler is designed to mount obstacles, and it seems to be working as designed. There are a lot of reasons a wrangler should never be driven above 55 miles per hour, this is just one of them.  

While I disagree with taxing the fuck out of anything I’m fine if we let a few companies die to teach the others a lesson. We bailed them all out last time and here we are a decade later with all of them asking for money again. Its becoming the new norm. The car market in particular is a pretty overloaded space. There’…

1st Gear: You get a bailout! You get a bailout! Everybody gets a bailout!!

First of all, “rolling coal” isn’t why they got in trouble. This isn’t a thing the vast majority of diesel owners do. This is just a silly thing a small niche of people do because they are obnoxious.

Give Ford some slack, man. They’re a mid-stage startup. In their industry, they’re a pre-teen. They’re bound to have technical bugs and hiccups in fielding vehicles as they haven’t been building them in significant quantities for what, 5 years now. Sure, they had that silly sports car, a large sedan, and an odd…

The concept behind “The Millionaire Next Door”. It works. 

Ignorant statement. There’s nothing wrong with the IMS on the Cayman’s M97. It has an incredibly low low failure rate. And is impossible to access without completely disassembling the engine. Ergo, only an idiot would proactively have anything “done” to the IMS.

IMS isn’t a significant issue on these cars (ie, the 3.4l, or even the later 3.2s in the Boxsters). They also aren’t as easily replaced as in the cars where they were a problem. I wouldn’t expect that it’s been done here, and I wouldn’t care if it hadn’t. 

The factory wheels are pretty enough, and selling these ultralight spider things will fund sending it to a competent mechanic to undo the ridiculous lowering. This car is slinky and lowslung enough, we don’t need to give the centipedes haircuts.

“If it brings good people to our town and increases our property value, I’m good with that.”

This is small-town, religious-conservative America aptly summed up in a single sentence.

These people aren’t ignorant of what’s going on, they just *don’t care*. Their sense of priorities are so askew that it’s impossible to…

I get your point about Harley, but quality sunglasses really are worth the money. The optics, hinges, and finish are miles and miles above those cheap ass Puggs you buy at Speedway.

Get a new job, just like horse breeding industry and lamp burners become obsolete because of advancement of technology, people must adapt and adjust accordingly. There are no shortage of jobs in the country and the vast majority people are not unionized because they don't need to be unionized. A novel concept I have…

A car sitting in a garage makes 0 horsepower.

I’m an optimist generally, but what has me worried is interest rates. When shit hits the fan, economically, the main knob to turn is to lower interest rates.

Those that are middle class can afford a $70k car.