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Reader Question: Keeping T&C Going?

Questions eric - November 21, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Charles asks: I have a 2011 Chrysler Town & Country minivan that I like and would like to keep. It has 150,000 miles...

Reader Question: Buy a TDI Touareg?

Questions eric - November 3, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Harvey asks: I'm just drove my Jetta TDI Wagon down to Charlotte for its 200,000 mile service. The service associate remarked on what...

Reader Question: Which Big Sedan?

Questions eric - September 6, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Henry asks: My older brother is in the market for a new sedan. He likes the Camry, but I have not heard good things...

Reader Question: When to Chuck Comprehensive?

Questions eric - September 6, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Danny asks: When does one know the time is right to drop comprehensive insurance coverage on a vehicle? I enjoy reading your work! My...

Reader Question: EVs That Make Sense?

Questions eric - September 6, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Randy asks: I don’t disagree with your general take on EVs. But do realize that they can make sense. I recently picked up...

Reader Question: Freedom Cars?

Questions eric - September 6, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Kris asks: Been reading for a few weeks now and love the reviews and the objective commentary is really refreshing. Heard you as...

Reader Question: Saaaaaaafety Up – but so are Deaths?

Questions eric - August 12, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Dana asks: Car registrations are down and so are miles driven per car, unless I am in error. Yet deaths are skyrocketing. Is it...

Reader Question: Are Volvos Still “Safest”?

Questions eric - August 8, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Beth asks: Interested in your views on Volvo cars. Are they still considered safest vehicles? My reply: Volvo will get mad at me, probably -...

Reader Question: Accept VW’s Buyback Offer?

Questions eric - July 9, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Kathleen asks: Eric, I've followed your articles on the VW diesel scam since its beginning. I'm the proud owner of a VW TDI; but...

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Questions eric - December 2, 2017

Here is the latest reader Question, along with my Reply: Darren asks: Long time reader and down under Clover hater here. For some time, car makers have obediently followed the automotive fatwas to...

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OppositeLock: Right now, we have self driving vehicles in quarries, mines, parking lots, places where humans get bored and also cost too...
Nunzio: Hey Ya’s, Brian & 8, Wow…..railroad ballast grasvel for roads? I can only imagine! Locally, they use a rather...
BrentP: Exactly Jeremy. Even biggest asshole bicyclists I’ve encountered barely reach the level the least offensive...
BrentP: You’re complaining that bicyclists are everywhere but at the same time saying they should be banned from the public way for...
Jeremy: Chuck, “I’ve never been held up or otherwise annoyed by a moped or horse, for example (granted there are no Amish here, but...
Anonymous: So what is your take on pedestrians if there is no sidewalk? Run them over because they are slow?
Anonymous: One question rarely asked, Why do we need self driving cars? Seriously, what is the good we gain for what looks like a lot of...
OppositeLock: It’s easy to criticize systems when you don’t have the full picture. First, every self driving car that is...
Brandonjin: “Every one wonder why one death is too many when they want to control us but they have to ‘break some eggs’ when the central...
Shotgun Chuck: “That is you want to dive such that other normal modes of transportation…” But that’s exactly it....
BrentP: The PTB understood it quite well as established science in the 1930s. There is wealth of information about our present day that...
BrentP: Yep I came to that being the overall conclusion 10, maybe 15 years ago. It’s one of those lessons that I learned with...
local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise: I’m pretty sure the DER (now called something else) practice goes back before 9-11-2011....
BrentP: In the old days of usenet we called it MFFY.
no one of consequence: Most software is just thrown together to see if it works, and then patched and re-patched to fix it. There are...
Anonymous: Has nothing to do with cycling. “should not be constrained by consideration of others” is simply how the majority...
Jeremy: Chuck, Your attitude seems indistinguishable from that of the critical massholes https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Jeremy: Hi Brent, The great Robert Higgs agrees with you. “People label a policy as a failure because it does not bring about its...
Brian: Hi Nunzio, Most of us in the midwest use either creek gravel or crushed rock from bedrock limestone quarries on gravel roads and...
Brian: Shotgun Chuck, You drive with the awareness that wildlife and livestock may appear in your path anyway. Why have the persistent...
Anonymous: I am surprised anyone thinks anything happens organically anymore. TPTB invested billions in psychological research and...
Anonymous: Um… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f aa-boeing-relationship-under-s crutiny-after-deadly-crash-201 9-03-19/...
BrentP: Software development has controls. But the software world didn’t develop to do the things it is to do today. Mechanical...
BrentP: Sounds like where you live is going to be returned to nature and made off limits to humans. It makes sense when merging the...
brazos_bend: I-10 and I-20 are both 90 mph zones commonly, 100 mph to pass. I-20 in East Texas is a damn racetrack too. People hovering...
dread ...: BTW, aircraft software development has very onerous process controls, with a representative of the FAA monitoring every step....
BrentP: I disagree with word fail. None of is designed to fail. We are simply not understand the real goal. These are all successes. The...
MarkyMark: Plus, the old reporters had HOLES in the soles of their shoes!
Thoughtcriminal2084: EVERYTHING is designed to fail. In order to collapse a tower or a civilization every structural point must be...
Nunzio: I want to drive my rocket car down the road at 400MPH. Damn peoiple in cars and trucks that can only do 70 or 80 MPH keep getting...
dread pirate anonymous: The problem I have with ALL of the AWD cars and current 4WDs with IFS (the solid axle Wrangler being the sole...
Tuanorea: I’m starting to find this stuff humorous. Just life in a post-apocalyptic world. Apparently, sometime after Peikoff started...
Nunzio: How will it be ‘very safe”- as conditions in the real world change immediately in real time, but the system’s...
Eightsouthman: Volvo will surely sell a ton of speed limited vehicles in west Texas since I-20 is a 90 mph parking lot on Friday’s...
dread pirate anonymous: The GPS maps don’t even know where the roads are out where I live. If a self-driving car followed GPS then...
AlexP712: I am very proud to say my 17 year old daughter appreciates cars and the act of driving. It helped that we got her a 2016 Tiguan...
Nunzio: I’m with you, Brent. This whole thing is designed specifically to fail. I mean, really, are we supposed to believe that the...
dread pirate anonymous: You Young Whippersnappers! LOL
Bin: So they’re Chinese owned, betting the farm on EV, and stepping up safety by limiting speed. Time will tell, but sounds like a...
BrentP: Now you’re behaving like Clover would, just with the opposite sign. You’re essentially chastising me for not wanting...
ReadyKilowatt: If you sell one widget one day, then two the next day, that’s a 100% increase in sales. I’ve spent the week on...
Eightsouthman: Nun, it’s basically the lighter shades of flint the RR uses on it’s tracks. It is commonly very sharp at some...
BrentP: That wall is the goal. The bridges are to be blown up behind the move to EVs. Then it will hit the wall and everyone will be...
MarkyMark: My point was that, unless you’re idling for more than 30 seconds or so, you’ll use more gas for the restart vs....
MarkyMark: Eric, Even Alejandro Agag, founder and CEO of the ABB Formula E series and big time EV advocate, said that in order for EVs to...
eric: Amen, Allen! We’re about the same age, I’m guessing – since we both began driving around the same time. It is so...
eric: I think so, too. In addition to the problems you mention, I would add recharge time/throughput at “fast” chargers. Then...
AlexP712: This whole scam will soon hit a gigantic brick wall, two actually; 1. the long term availability (and cost) of lithium...
Richard Preston: I think Eric meant Jim Acosta. Jim, Bob, Bill whatever…we all know who he is talking about, that screwball...
c_dub250: Haha Roscoe. That would be glorious! Please report back if you ever do decide to do this, with pics and/or video too.
c_dub250: No shame in that Ken. I had to look it up too. Expanding one’s vocabulary is one of the many joys gained from reading Eric’s...
c_dub250: No shame in that Ken. I had to look it up too. Expanding one’s vocabulary is one of the many joys gained from reading...
richb: Wow, didn’t know Volvo was that dead in the US……
Ethan Noble-Valentine: That isn’t understating what they cost or giving a projection based on govt welfare
Shotgun Chuck: You know, if you and all your coworkers quit tomorrow, they’d have no one to develop that smokin’ hot...
Shotgun Chuck: Sorry, but that’s really what the things you say come down to. It’s hard not to drive like you’re...
TOASTYSEATS: Just rented a Ford EcoSport for work. Had to run down to northeast Georgia from Columbus. 500mile+ trip each way. Lots of...
Nunzio: That guy breaks the stereotype- he tells the TRUTH! AHhhhhh!!!! So rare to hear!
Eightsouthman: Damn eric, I’m shocked. Well, I was shocked the first time, nearly 50 years ago, when I understood what Patton had...
The Handler: This is a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=EHzPwQr7GB0
The Handler: I haven’t seen that one in years! I’m shocked it’s still on Youtube. Marc Faber said something a year or...
Allen: If “uncle” thinks I’m going to fall for all his BS and nudge me into an EV, uncle can go to hell! I started...
Eightsouthman: I occasionally go to a big town, 100K+ population, dumbed down to the nth degree. But due to a big AF base, there is a...
FoolAndMoney404: Ken, you’re a saint for admitting that.
Nunzio: Darn…they cut it off just as it was getting to the best part!
Eightsouthman: I hope you intend it to be some huge BB. Back in the middle 60’s a friend had a Vette..pretty salty, hard to take...
Nunzio: Ha! Someone else up;oaded it! Great stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=eCu4yV6vgIk
Nunzio: Damn! Handler! I was gonna post an old video of this BLACK preacher ragging on Obama, and saying how there’s something...
Anonymous: I get great satisfaction knowing that every time I take my 440 cid 71 Charger out on the road, I am actively curtailing the...
ReadyKilowatt: The most used feature on my Mac is the fully integrated dictionary. Just highlight the word, right click and “look...
BrentP: It’s just thicker wall rubber, it’s not like they are made of lead. I don’t even notice the difference in...
The Handler: “But it’s O-K because “they have big dicks”- big, dirty, AIDS and STD-infected dicks, to compensate for their lack of...
BrentP: The US dollar retained “word reserve” status because of the oil trade after Nixon ended Bretton Woods.
The Bobster: That’s assuming that the existing power plants have enough capacity to power tens of millions of EVs. In my area,...
Anonymous: I want a 1960’s muscle car with 2 four barrels that is kind of like flushing a toilet when you put the pedal to the floor.
The Bobster: Is this Jeopardy? Okay, I’m game. The court jester in the WH press room.
The Bobster: “He touts the price of the Model 3 as much less than it actually is – $26,950 vs. $35,000 by discounting what you’ll...
MikePizzo: Volvo……the General Motors of Europe.
ken: Okay,,,I admit it,,, I had to look up ‘hagiographically’ ….
Anonymous: I was referring to the car having to be re-started just so that you can turn it off.
Anonymous: https://www.zerohedge.com/news /2019-03-21/nj-governor-signs- rain-tax-bill-residents-proper ty-rates-rise-based-weather LOL....
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: BUT… you cannot claim “Muh Constitution” as YOU are not a party to it.
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: HERE: https://archive.org/details/pd fy-e91lgFZ1CSW9t87q HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=AO4n0eqSx84
BrentP: The limiting factor in the range of a hybrid is the same as any internal combustion engine car, the size of the tank(s) that hold...
mrfnuts: You know these ‘ASS’ features certainly provide entertainment. The other day I was downtown, where it’s...
eric: Hi Doug, Yes, indeed. And it is a tragedy beyond measure that Patton’s advice in re carpe diem wasn’t followed....
Douglas L Self: General Patton noted that once the shooting had stopped, once the US Army had secured a German town, the residents were...
Douglas L Self: The Interstates were originally sold to the American public by the Eisenhower Administration as the “National...
David J Webb Sr.: The Chinese are working on a diesel hybrid with a 700 mile range. Our local power company could install 440 volt lines...
MarkyMark: I can’t remember where I read it now, but I read that if you’re going to be idling for more than 30 seconds,...
dread pirate anonymous: How much extra gas gets wasted by the car having to be re-started? BTW, I’ve had vehicles years ago that...
MarkyMark: Ah, James Traficant, an American hero! I used to hear him on shortwave radio back in the 1990s. I couldn’t believe he...
Douglas L Self: “I mean BONING, the WILD MAMBO, the HUNKA-CHUNKA…”
Douglas L Self: Ah, Model Rockets — in sixth grade, my friends and I played with them a lot, we dubbed ourselves the...
Nunzio: What’s chert? (Non-descript filler here to pacify Turdpress’s spam thingy)
Nunzio: Yeah, remember them?! Today, those model rocket engines would probably be considered “explosive devices”- and if you...
Nunzio: HAhaha,8! I love Rochester! Jack Benny? Meh…. But Rochester? He was the show! Of course, the libruls would say that such an...
Nunzio: Hey, Eric! Yesiree! Those idiots who apologize seal their own doom. They lose the respect of their fans, for caving in; and the...
Anonymous: Is this it? Can’t listen to it right now [at work] https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=TqPNgMipjeQ
Nunzio: It truly is both hilarious and sad how self-blinded our society has become, that they can ignore that giant black elephant....

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