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Staff Writer at Jalopnik, learning pilot and does bus stuff. Smart Fortwo (x4), Honda Beat, Suzuki Every, VW Touareg V10, Passat TDI, Jetta TDI, Audi TT, Buell Lightning, Triumph Tiger, Genuine Stella

Rental cars are a PITA. You have to haul up to the airport to get the best rates, which for me is at least a 2 hour round trip. Then you have to worry about getting nickel and dimed by the rental company on return or them not having the car you reserved when you need it. Sure, you can do it- I’ve done it- but buyers Read more

Rental cars are a PITA. You have to haul up to the airport to get the best rates, which for me is at least a 2 hour round trip. Then you have to worry about getting nickel and dimed by the rental company on return or them not having the car you reserved when you need it. Sure, you can do it- I’ve done it- but buyers Read more

To me that feels like buying a dishwasher that will clean my plates and silverware more efficiently, but won’t work with pots and pans the few times I have to wash them. Why would I want to buy that more efficient dishwasher over the one that works for all my dishwashing-related cases?

(coming from an owner of both ICE Read more

I guess that’s also assuming things will become more affordable in the first place and the goal post for wealth doesn’t completely swallow up the middle class. Read more

dont forget having to go outa your way EVERY SINGLE WEEK to get gas” Read more

The issue is that YOU DON’T NEED A RENTAL CAR AT ALL when you have a gas car. Read more

If I have to rent a car to make long distance drives, like road trips to visit family that live in other states, or going camping in remote areas of southern Utah, I’m not going to buy a low range EV and will keep my ICE car instead.
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while “most people” drive 30 miles a day or whatever the actual smallish number is. the usa is Very spread out and people drive 150+ miles weekly/monthly. Combine that with the few times you drive very long distances and having to stop every ~150 miles would get extremely aggravating. Also while the electricity is Read more

My dirty as hell car says I park under a fruit tree that produces something that makes the birds more incontinent than a nursing home on Taco Tuesday. Read more

Nah. I don’t mind a muddy or dusty look after a trip off-road (my 80 is at work in the parking lot right now covered from a weekend thing) but it doesn’t really look better. It just has a look.  I much prefer it clean, but I don’t mind it dirty either.  As far as winter dirty? No. No car looks better covered in road Read more

I can hear you naysayers now in my comments, talking about how a clean car means you take care of your things and how if a car is dirty you’re ruining the paint. Let me just say this: shut up. I do not care. Life is too short to worry about the perfection of your paint on your soft-roader SUV. Spend your time and Read more

yeah.. it felt a bit like a 3 guys doing stuff on the lunch break for a laugh.. Read more

It was more ‘Design propane torch that would normally sell at Home Depot for $50 but make it look like a gun. We’re gonna call it a flame thrower and sell it for $500.” It probably took one engineer a single day to knock that out Read more

I have a little secret you may not know: Adolf Hitler died 80 years ago, and Ferdinand Porsche died 74 years ago. Musk is very much still alive and his current actions are very much enabled by the material support people have given him in the purchase of his cars. Read more

The cave issue was it for me. His response was so unhinged that they should have put him in the padded room right then and there.
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Does anyone else call them Gummi worm plugs or just me Read more