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a lot of the newer Subarus are having engine issues. Coworker had a new Impreza, waited forever for engine replacement, had loaner for several months. Lots of issues. I hear it is not just those issues. Plus now Subarus have CVT's... wonder how that is going.

Seems like I have heard both good and bad about the newer Subies. We had a 19 Outback rental that took us from Michigan to Florida and back without a hitch. We loved the car! Actually considered one for a while. Also have friends an coworkers with 18-20 model year Outback’s that love them too. I find it interesting that the few folks I know that have the Forester were not happy with them. Strange one would think..... That sounds a lot like my wife’s 95 Plymouth Neon.:-) Car was very fun to drive, and great on gas. It’s one major downfall was that it ate head gaskets like candy! We were heading for a 4th one when it finally was traded in for her Cavalier. And her Cavalier gave us also no issues for 17 years.......

I had no idear Balthy was so committed!

@balthazar I liked this Bonneville, for the most part. The trim level really affects its overall appearance. People I know who have had owned this generation of Bonne have had good luck with them. It's the next-gen after this one that I didn't like. Too bulbous. Then, in 2000, they righted the ship, so to speak, with a nice, new Bonneville until the model got phased out, along with the brand. Sad event ... some unforgettable cars.

Time travel from 1939 will do that to you. I love this. Me with my sister, before I lost weight... In front of the memphis Belle.... My son Daniel... Out hiking on a trail. Motorcycle pic for shifts and giggles.

Gingerbread copy of a Frank Lloyd wright house...

Norfolk Island pine, not my work. Last wood turning pic. Have a great day everyone.

Packard-Pontiac dealer ~

This one (on CL) has trinacriabob written all over it. 53K miles. https://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/ctd/d/upton-1988-pontiac-bonneville-se/7249566639.html

By living in my own bubble of now departed GM W-bodies, colonnade coupes, and cast iron block/cast iron head engines, I just stay out of this $h!+.

Crude but funny....

Very cool. Skip ahead to the 44 second mark...my friend Nicholas painted the back wall of the church, and also does icons like the ones found in the church. Very beautiful piece of Maple another wood turner is getting ready to make into a bowl...once piece of wood 22 inches across.

Prices on these ahve gone through the roof, this is an 83 and it's 28 Grand with 150K on the clock. More than I paid for a new ranger. Last British Airways 747 flight...Sad.

I love this Westphalia....

You are a smart dude in your own way. I am tired to seeing you attacked here. That being said....next time use a sharpie so i can read it....my eyesight isn't so good.

I've can only think of 1/2 dozen times I've been stranded (i.e. required calling AAA for a tow) in 34 years of driving... and they were all vehicles w/ high mileage (and all coincidentally in Arizona within a 3 yr period). I have learned my lesson, though...no more high mileage vehicles, no more Arizona.

I do like the new Rogue, even the base model looks fine and has a lot of stuff. The interior looks really nice too. The dark gray 17" alloys (with taller sidewall tires, signaling the potential for a cushier ride) and black door handles and mirrors only signal a lower maintenance life for the vehicle. Over onto the YouTube, a kid reviewed the base model Bronco Sport with zero options, and aside from a lack of foglights (if I'm real they're a vanity item) it is kitted just fine. If in the future I go back to a CUV, it must be compact, cavernous for its size, and it must have a capable AWD system. Would be awful to just SIT THERE while the computer kills the power and I get nowhere just because of 10" of snow or mud I decide to navigate on the spur of the moment.

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I love this one: dry, but damn funny.

^^^ It dont matter about quantifying when cars were perfected with ease of ownership and the like. The point is...even with Toyoter's Hybrds in 1997...the POINT is that, even by your own admission, Ocnblu's words to be exact, by the 1930s, ease of gas powered cars came into its own. And what you go on to say on the post above. Lets be real though. We havent yet reached the time lapse of today's BEVs to get to that point in time to EQUAL the gasoline powered cars time of coming into their own. We havent reach a time for an EV Model T equivalent yet. There is no such EV on sale as we speak. Most BEVs on sale as of now...are of the Duesenberg equivalent variety. But to make a comparison and an EQUAL statement of this quote with BEVs No; there arent as many charge stations as there are gas stations, but for daily driving back and forth to work, there isnt a need for such as charging from home is a reality for most folk who buy a BEV. Prior to Tesla, Hybrids were mostly used as an electric alternative. People with hybrids never had to screech to charge up at a...Costco. Just fill 'er up at the Costco with gas. Point being, EVs at this stage, in 2020 are about where ICE cars were in the 1920s. Late 1920s early 1930s. Teslas as EVs are just about as advanced and fast as Duesenbergs were in those same late '20s and into the '30s. Rivian, Lucid could be what Mercedes, Cadillacs and Rolls Royces were at that time too. Except that even in December of 2020 and heading into 2021, Rivian and Lucid arent even ready to sell 1 bloody car yet, but Mercedes, Cadillacs and Rolls Royces were household names by the 1920s... Tesla is the ONLY one... To boot, BEVs dont even have a Ford, Dodge, Chevrolet equivalent to boost the sales to the mainstream for the BEV to be revolutionary to the common man the way Fords, Chevys and Dodges were to the common folk in the . THAT started as EARLY as 1908 as you stated for the gas powered car. BEVs and steam powered cars were actually a thing in those days. But it took a Model T and the production line to cement the gasoline powered car to what it is today. Tesla is the ONLY one in 2020 doing the heavy lifting for BEVs. THAT is what you get when the internal combustion engine has had 100 years to develop and to perfect and to simplify and make life easy to own such a contraption. Some of that easiness and perfection, a BEV takes advantage of (roads, highways, drive-through fast food windows and banks...) and others, the BEV has to create its own... Its not fair to discuss the 100 years of ICE development JUST to look down on BEVs. ICE is superior has an advantage BECAUSE it has had 100 years to be PERFECTED. Battery electric motorvation has a potential. A real potential. To deny that is to be naïve. If not naïve, disingenuous then. Another point: To believe that BEVs are not exciting...then that is a bunch of hooie! But Ill entertain that thought. If one is to think that BEVs are just appliances, well, the gas powered car started that way of thinking a looong time ago waaaaay before MODERN BEVs came into play. Nope, it didnt start in the 1970s either. It started WITH the Model T waaay back in 1908. It was a tool for the common man to use to go to work. To use as a truck on his farm etc... It brought the mythical horseless carriage to the masses. It had a whopping 20 HP. The Model A double its power to a mind blowing 40 HP. Meanwhile, the real fast toys over at Bentley, Rolls Royce and Duesenberg all had 250-400 HP... Yeah yeah...hot rodding and muscle cars... Face the truth...the very gas powered car that made America also implanted a seed that cars are appliances. It took time a very long time for that seed to grow, but station wagons, minivans and SUVs is what became of that Model T appliance seed...and all of those vehicles I mentioned is what most Americans have bought since the 1960s... Oh...let us not forget the pick-up truck. As fun as the pick-up truck maybe today with Raptor and TREX variants, the pick-up truck still represents the mundane work-horse and family hauler appliance piece the Model T was invented as... All to say... Modern BEVs havent reached the timelines of those early gas powered cars yet. However, the milestones that gas-powered cars reached in those first 30-40 years, the modern BEVS are attaining them as we speak in a shorter time frame.

Curious as to how you'd answer a yes or no question.

I've owned one Asian brand vehicle, an '86.5 Nissan Hardbody. It was dead reliable for the 3 yerrs I had it from new, but the paint job/corrosion protection was crappy. Every stone chip on the hood led to peelback from poor adhesion (they grew to approx 3 inches or more in diameter), which then ushered in surface rust. Same along the lower perimeter. The mechanicals were rock solid, however. I am amazed that after all these yerrs and all the complaints/issues with CVT, Nissan has not gone back to conventional automatics. All of my Volkswagens ('92 Golf, TWO '98 Beetles, '00 GTi and '13 Beetle TDi) were bought new, and all of them had issues. They're wonderful cars to drive, but they're a pain in the butt to live with. My Chevrolets have been overall very reliable. Now of course I don't keep any vehicle for a long long time (longest was my '94 S-10, at 4 years and 125k miles) but the bowtie has treated me pretty well. My Patriot (except for CVT driving feel) and Compass were admirable too, and reliability was contradictory to all the naysayers. I'd own another Jeep.

Day 6 of skiing at Stevens pass and I noticed something very interesting. Last year saw plenty of Tesla's. This year, specifically today especially I saw a number of Audi E-TRON, Toyota Rav 4 Hybrid and the following two GMC Crew Cab Pickup Trucks in Elevation and AT4 Trim with what was a standard on the Avalanche and now an option the multi-part bed cover with the GMC logo.

I am just going to say this. Toyota’s ownership of Subaru wasn’t made official until ten months ago so trying to connect one to the other, in terms of reliability, would be an incorrect assessment. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.torquenews.com/1084/subaru-officially-joins-toyota-group-what-it-means-new-outback-and-forester-models/amp

Those issues were like, what 10-15 years ago? GM had their long running ignition problem then also...all automakers have issues, some more than others. Anyway, banter on C&G is typical of the internet, just a lot of people blathering...none of it means anything, nothing to get stressed about (aboot?). .. just stay entertained and don't take it too seriously...peace out..

Jeep is hanging in there, pretty consistent...woo hoo! Anyway, no doubt that Toyota and Honda are pretty consistent on the short- and long- term reliability...some on here complain about Toyota and Honda probably out of xenophobia rather than any actual facts, I suspect...

Looks at the survey...sees that Chevrolet and Buick are very close to Toyoter and Lexus.... Sees Subaru...a Toyoter owned company and its at bottom... (Yeah...I see where GMC is at...) Also... The gentleman (and his inlaws) that talks a biiiig game about Toyota's reliabilty and holds GM responsible for shyttyness 30-40 years ago...and cant in his heart seem to forget about it...also seems to turn a blind eye for Toyoter's more recent shyttyness and does NOT hold Toyoter to the same level of hatred... This gentleman also likes Acura I believe...same like me....sees Honda and Acura...another Japanese legendary awesome company known for...cough cough...reliabilty...and sees that they are far worse than Chevrolet and Buick... Known fact for Honda and Acura: Its been DECADES that Honda and Acura have had engine, transmission and steering problems... DECADES... But lets continue banging on that same ole tired rant of how American car companies lag behind Japanese ones...

Most of their models are just "blah". Nevertheless their overall reliability is way above average (and has been for years now) and much better than American brands.

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It never came down. It was on the market for at least half a dozen other nations. That would be a solid argument if it weren’t for two things. 1. They (4Runners) were just as solid in 2009 as they are now. 2. Again, forty years of reliability.

Sadly the fate of many brands now.....

Sylvania; inventor of the fluorescent tube light (and the fixtures) - first shown at the '39 World's Fair. 2nd largest radio tube manufacturer, 3rd largest light bulb manufacturer. Emporium, Pennsylvania. Now a label belonging to a Chinese consortium.

Here is my entry for lowest price DVD player of the holiday season, and it has HDMI input even!

^ The '11 Jeep Liberty Sport here has that, but frankly it's almost never used. The un-framed glass kinda makes me nervous slinging items thru. Still, it might be handy when moving long items. But I'd prefer a retractable glass in a hatch.

Recent statements by Toyota's CEO (and GM's CEO) have me changing my mind about buying a Toyota product in the future. Maybe a RAV4 Adventure?

Going to have to check the vintage on my water heater..it's working fine currently. I've replaced the furnace, washer and dryer since I've been here almost 4 years now. A/C was still working fine this summer, but it is a 1991 vintage unit.

When I was assembling the snow blower the other night, I looked up and was eye height with the installer's label on the water tank. It was installed in 1994.... hence the question.

I think they say around 12-14 years, but mine started leaking earlier and at my parents house it leaked after 9 years and destroyed laminate floor. If the water heater somewhere where it can do damage if it leaks I would strongly suggest replacing it pre-emptively. Personally, I put tankless water heater in my house.

Yes Watson.

Beans, beans are good for your heart The more you eat them, the more you fart The more you fart, the better you feel So eat beans at every meal

Posted on Reddit, This is what happens when the Airbag does not inflate.

What I meant is that it hearkens to a British detective taking a respite from his sleuthing.

Happy Halloween

Seeming how I don’t think I’ve ever posted a picture of myself, or maybe it’s just been a long time. Here are some pictures from my wife and I’s wedding day last December.

In an inverse to a vampire, I cannot be photographed directly, only via reflections. I can be SEEN directly, just not photographed by those means.

Back to jokes Lohd have mehcy!

If buying new, a hyundai or kia so they get the 100k warranty. If buying used, either a cruze (low cost of admission) or a corolla (good longevity)