Not your mortgage, not your problem. My neighbor, rest his soul, when moving into the neighborhood asked me if I would be ok with him parking a large catamaran on his property in the city. I had no problem with it.

It’s a bigger problem than that. It gets down to the regulatory structures around parceling land in most states. In Michigan, for instance, our land subdivision law dates back to the 1960s and is very clunky and cumbersome. Conversely, our condominium law dates to the 1990s (IIRC) and is pretty easy to follow. Many…

I liked the color-coordinated idea and wish they’d have gone all the way through with it instead of the couple versions they did.  My ‘06, though, was all gray (the car’s color was Nighthawk Black Pearl, though).  They weren’t super luxurious, but they were well put together and the design was tasteful.  I liked it…

Aside from the performative nonsense from the person who posted the Jaguar interior, these are mostly pretty solid choices. Somehow I ended up having personal experience with a bunch of these on the list.

I’ve had the misfortune of having two different experiences with deploying airbags. The first was in a 1995 Buick LeSabre into a winter multi-car pileup at ~60 mph. That one felt like someone punched me square in the nose, and the fumes from the deployment were so caustic I was coughing for quite some time afterward…

Only thing I can figure is that dude plans to walk away from the Jeep, ran his mouth at the shop and the shop put a Mechanic’s Lien on it. The source article said he immediately went and bought a truck, and the dude makes an “average” of $200/day working 7 days/week (presuming he even told the news people…

I have the same question. The source story goes into a bit more detail that gives the impression this guy with the Jeep’s living paycheck to paycheck and might not be the brightest guy out there. I’m guessing the owner ran his mouth a bit at the shop, shop put a Mechanic’s Lien on the Jeep, and the owner’s planning to…

I can tell things are getting a bit better. Even in late 2022, the Ford dealer in my hometown (which happens to be the corner at which I turn to get to my mom’s house) still had their cars “social distanced,” which is to say they only had about 5 pickups and 2 Explorers on the entire lot. When I was up for a visit…

Those D3 Tauruses are pretty solid cars and seem to run pretty well without too much heartburn.  Honestly, given the budget and the apparent dearth of choices in Bozeman, putting a few bucks into the current ride might be the smartest play.  Keep it on the road another 2-3 years, get out of school into a paying gig,…

JLR ain’t gonna tell me I can’t call my Jaguar a Jag. I spent the money on it, which means I get to call it whatever I like. I imagine they’d be positively aggravated that I generally call it “the Jaggin’ Wagon” and chose the license plate accordingly, but again, my car my name.

I-Pace has been an availability question due to supply chain. XF I think got hurt by them discontinuing the XJ and XE. I mean, I literally own an XF (2018 Sportbrake) and didn’t realize they were still selling XFs in the U.S. E-Pace... Such a weird one. I had one as a loaner a couple years ago, and I was very…

It was a 3.0 (the biggest engine) with the manual, which was not common.  Also had all the sport package kit except for the color-keyed body accents and grille.  But, it had nearly 150,000 miles on it, and it was rusty underneath. Thing still drove pretty good, but it was time.

To the best of my knowledge, Michigan does not require any bill of sale. I’ve handwritten them for the last couple vehicles I’ve sold and then photographed both that and the countersigned title as piece of mind protection. Last seller of a car I bought private party also did a handwritten bill of sale; absolutely did…

They make it sound like they’re building for the 1990s when cell phones weren’t ubiquitous, but anyone that can afford a new EV also has a cell phone. Of course, we all know they just want that sweet subscription money, and I’d wager Google’s putting money into their pocket to get at some of the rich vehicle data that…

Ordinarily I’d join in your haranguing. In this case, though, they were stopped at the crossing with nothing to do but wait... Or play on their phone.  No harm in this case. 

I like seeing things like this, and we need more of it. I-696 in Metro Detroit has 3 tunnels, atop which are parks so the orthodox Jewish communities there can walk to the synagogues. They did that in the 1980s when they built that segment of the freeway, and they’re rather pleasant for biking and walking even with…

Two things:

1981 was... not a great time for buyers of new cars in the United States. The economy was in the shitter, the second oil crisis had pushed rapid, and bad, technology and downsizing decisions, and recently-elected Ronald Reagan’s morning in America had not yet begun to dawn. Ford posted the largest loss to-date of any…

In the late 1990s when I got my driver’s license in the hinterlands of Michigan, near where I grew up was a road everyone locally knew as “Rollercoaster Road.” This ~1.5 mile (~2.5 km) gravel road ran through state land and, as such, had no houses or other development along it. The last half-mile or so had these very…

I can tell I’m getting old, since I remember pretty much every one on this list from back then. Kinda odd to have to think about it as “I haven’t seen one of X in a long time and I’d like to again.”