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    Cars you’ve bought new!

    My purchases: 2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS 2016 Chevrolet Colorado 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD Wife's lease vehicles: 2012 Chevrolet Equinox 2014 Chevrolet Equinox 2016 Chevrolet Equinox 2018 Chevrolet Equinox 2020 Chevrolet Blazer 2023 Chevrolet Blazer
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    Uninspired Auto design

    Hold up. Dodge literally makes three vehicles: Hornet, a boring re-badged Alfa crossover, Durango, which hasn't had a refresh since the Obama Administration, and Charger, whose re-style has gone over about as well as a wet fart. Please point out the iconic looks in the Dodge lineup.
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    G-Body as part of the halftime show of Super Bowl LIX.

    "Freedom is for everybody, even goofballs who like to trade little rubber ducks back and forth, but it isn't free." You're right Harrison Jeep, but Temu does make it pretty inexpensive though.
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    G-Body as part of the halftime show of Super Bowl LIX.

    GNX: 547 built in 1987. 8,451 still on the road today. For the oldies in the group: Kendrick Lamar's most recent album is titled GNX
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    2021 Chevy/GMC/Cadi engines burning oil solution

    The purge valve controls evaporative emissions from the fuel tank, through the charcoal canister, and releases ("purges") them into the engine intake manifold where they are burned through combustion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_emissions_control#Evaporative_emissions_control It has...
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    What stereo amplifier/receiver?

    I still have and use an older Marantz PM6005. It was the first IA I ever bought and has been a workhorse for me. At some point it has powered every pair of speakers I've owned. It's a model before all the network integration, so I have it hooked to a NA6006. Currently in my basement with some...
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    What stereo amplifier/receiver?

    I'm not very well versed in receiver models (How important is an AM/FM tuner to you?) but in the integrated amp space, there's a lot of good options that check all (or most) of your boxes. NAD, Rotel, Marantz, and Cambridge all have offerings in your budget and you'd be hard-pressed to find any...
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    Highest increase in home prices from March 2020-October 2024, Irvine, CA 83 percent gain (yes 83 percent)

    I'd be suspicious of this. Zillow's Home Value Index is so unreliable, not even Zillow believes it anymore: That's Zillow CEO Rich Barton in 2021 after their home buying excursion, iBuying, failed and had to close up shop. Using their own data and algorithms, Zillow sought to buy undervalued...
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    Why aren't penalties stiffer for people who drive without a valid license/registration/insurance?

    So that's really what it's about: Poor people should be punished for being poor. Is it okay for poor people to not have insurance and not pay registration if they have a hand-me-down phone (which, like a car, is also an absolute necessity to live in America) or are there some other arbitrary...
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    Building a car/truck wash

    Bonus depreciation, aka a massive tax break. Typically, companies are allowed to depreciate assets 20% a year over 5 years. In 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had provisions to allow certain business, through bonus depreciation, to depreciate 100% of their assets in a single year. Car washes...
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    Adaptive cruise control could ease "phantom traffic jams" - or make them worse

    Far too few people use regular cruise control. Why would the addition of distance-based speed setting change that foundational problem? Lots of drivers have become conditioned that they should be around other vehicles. That leads to trains of people glued to one another's bumpers, usually doing...
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    Sunday Riddle

    Riddles! A great use for AI! Plugged the riddle into Microsoft Copilot: Maybe because I forgot the question mark in my query? Let's try again. It got it on the next try.
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    Door bell cams with no monthly fee

    Nest (Google) has a no-cost option that will do notifications and save event-based video history for 3 hours. Their paid tiers (Nest Aware) are an $8/month service for 30 days of event-based video history or $15/month for 60 days of event-based history and 10 days of 24/7 video history (24/7...
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    GM Super Cruise - 15,000 mile review

    This is exactly what the owners manual says, in a big red warning:
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    Did Ford/GM develop a more complicated transmission for the least gain?

    Hey, if you're worried about so many issues with multi-gear transmissions, you could always just get yourself something with a... CVT
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    2025 Chevy Trax?

    Considering GM has owned Daewoo since 2001 and it hasn't been called "Daewoo" since 2011, I think it sounds like Daewoo is more GM than Trax is Daewoo.
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    Non-Tesla's using Tesla charging stations - what's that like?

    Yes, it's happening. Most (all?) non-Tesla vehicles have not yet integrated the NACS/J3400 charge port as standard and are still using the J1772 charge port. These vehicles must use an adapter. Given the integration time, I'd expect MY26-MY27 vehicles to be the first years to have the NACS...
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    Post some higher charge rates in your area.

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/CuYgM1BLYph4Kh3W7 This is the small town (~4,500 residents) where my wife grew up and many in her family still live. The location is key: The town itself straddles I75 and is a pretty central location for traveling anywhere in Northern Michigan. The particular charging...
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    Thread for photos that 100% do not violate any Terms Of Service, not political, not too lewd, no gas price pics etc.

    We had both of those in our home many years back. Our dog (RIP) hated the one on the left. She was perfectly find with the one on the right but she'd pick up the other by the Christmas tree and hide it next to the couch.
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    Illinois woman’s property tax is poised to pop from $756 to over $10,000

    If I'm reading this correctly, this particular woman's situation and ridiculously high tax impending payment is the result of her local government's incorrect implementation of a law that was passed 17 years ago? Yet somehow this is the fault of Illinois lawmakers and the city slickers up in...
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