Based on the almost new appearance of the rubber, sidewall and tread, I think I'll check with my dealer service manager about the tires when I get an oil change soon. Up to 10 years according to Michelin and Continental.
"Many automakers, including Ford, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz, tell owners to replace tires six years after their production date, regardless of tread life. Tire manufacturers such as Continental and Michelin say a tire can last up to 10 years provided you get annual tire inspections after the fifth year."
Looks like Fred will be coming through this weekend. Lots of rain according to The Weather Channel and maybe a little bit of wind. Hurricane season in South Florida is always something different and frankly, I've really had enough!
Speaking of hurricanes, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey (Aug. 17, – Sept 2, 2017) that destroyed more than one million vehicles, making it the single most destructive event in America -- what happened to all these wrecked and flooded cars? And If they were all sold at auction, they probably went for cheap while the insurance companies took a haircut.
They were all sold on Craigslist as “extra clean”.🤣
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
It would cost an extra $270 to go 1400 miles which is more than $5 a mile.
For what it's worth, $5/mile times 1400 miles is $7000. This isn't math, it's grade 3 arithmetic.
Perhaps these are Canadian miles?
$270 to go 1400 miles is only 20 cents a mile....JMonroe is correct, if we use the driver method that of amortization that ain't bad......it could make First Class worth it.
For what it's worth, $5/mile times 1400 miles is $7000. This isn't math, it's grade 3 arithmetic.
For once I kept my mouth shut and decided to let someone else try to teach him something.
Like you’ve said before, better pack a lunch maybe even a dinner.
Let me count the iterations.
jmonroe
I haven't done division for about 20 years....I haven't done geometry or algebra in over 50 years....I am a little rusty. Besides, I have way more going on in my head these days...how to play tennis better!
A now for something completely different—a live in the studio cover by some young musicians of the classic song California Dreaming. Heard this song on XM in my car a while ago, and then went looking for a live version and found this.
@benjaminh, Only saw the top part of the picture but it looked like School of Rock, and when I scrolled down, it was. A very smooth song. That's School of Rock Cleveland. We haven't heard from omarman in a while, he would have pointed that out in a new york second.
2024 Ford F-150 STX, 2023 Ford Explorer ST, 91 Mustang GT vert
I was testing to see if you were reading my posts. Seems that you follow them pretty closely!
I didn't read it when it was posted, as usual, but when others comment I often end up reading the reason for the comment. This one was a gem.
You were the first to comment. You must read my posts when they first appear, probably watching for them every day. Maybe you should subscribe to my website? Driver101.com!
When you add as much information as I do and when you are as prolific as I am you could make a small mathematical error which is of very little importance unless you have OCD about minor errors.
My days are full, and since I have a very full active life I sometimes do minor things like division too quickly, it isn't a big deal to most people. Most people get the idea.
When GM was flying high in the 60s the president of GM told his executives, if they weren't making mistakes they were playing it too safe, not trying enough different things. To be great you will always make mistakes...I love mistakes, I learn more from mistakes than successes, it teaches you what not to do. If you are afraid of making a mistake you probably won't be successful....life seldom moves in a straight perfect line.
If finding a small mathematics mistake is that important to you....that is a much bigger problem than me making a minor mathematical error.
@driver100 said:
You were the first to comment. You must read my posts when they first appear, probably watching for them every day. Maybe you should subscribe to my website? Driver101.com!
When you add as much information as I do and when you are as prolific as I am you could make a small mathematical error which is of very little importance unless you have OCD about minor errors.
My days are full, and since I have a very full active life I sometimes do minor things like division too quickly, it isn't a big deal to most people. Most people get the idea.
When GM was flying high in the 60s the president of GM told his executives, if they weren't making mistakes they were playing it too safe, not trying enough different things. To be great you will always make mistakes...I love mistakes, I learn more from mistakes than successes, it teaches you what not to do. If you are afraid of making a mistake you probably won't be successful....life seldom moves in a straight perfect line.
If finding a small mathematics mistake is that important to you....that is a much bigger problem than me making a minor mathematical error.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis Ultimate just like jmonroe's. '18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
A now for something completely different—a live in the studio cover by some young musicians of the classic song California Dreaming. Heard this song on XM in my car a while ago, and then went looking for a live version and found this.
Wow! A very lovely and crisp sound. Too bad, they don't make this kind of music anymore. Thanks for sharing.
Also heard recently on XM in the car was Adele's hit "Hello" of a few years ago. Hello has a little callback to that famous song by the Mamas and the Papas in the line, "I'm in California dreaming about who we used to be." Here's a good live version of Adele's song that she performed at the Grammy awards. The song is clearly about past relationships, but more than that she once said it's partly her talking to a younger version of herself. She had some tough times in her late teens and early 20s, and so she's talking to herself from "the other side" of that.
But to show that she has a sense of humor about herself and the song, here she is doing it as a duet with fellow Brit James Corden on Carpool Karaoke....
You were the first to comment. You must read my posts when they first appear, probably watching for them every day. Maybe you should subscribe to my website? Driver101.com!
When you add as much information as I do and when you are as prolific as I am you could make a small mathematical error which is of very little importance unless you have OCD about minor errors.
My days are full, and since I have a very full active life I sometimes do minor things like division too quickly, it isn't a big deal to most people. Most people get the idea.
When GM was flying high in the 60s the president of GM told his executives, if they weren't making mistakes they were playing it too safe, not trying enough different things. To be great you will always make mistakes...I love mistakes, I learn more from mistakes than successes, it teaches you what not to do. If you are afraid of making a mistake you probably won't be successful....life seldom moves in a straight perfect line.
If finding a small mathematics mistake is that important to you....that is a much bigger problem than me making a minor mathematical error.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jmonroe
Forgetting to record an oil change is a much bigger...more expensive mistake. But, hopefully you learned something from it!
2 takeaways. First, don’t mess with the audio in modern cars. Make sure factory is good enough! And 2nd, why would you want to hang a giant boombox there to block all your rear vision?
Best bet might be the truck. Gives an excuse to get a sporty toy later!
Well, if you decide to go for the Maverick, but want to save money for a sporty toy later, what about considering the base model Maverick? I mean, does it have to be all tricked out if it's your functional vehicle? And check this out, which I thought was close to amazing—Ford is right now offering 0% financing for 36 months on the new Maverick, as well as 0.9% at 48 months, and 1.9 for 60 months. But if you get the base model of the Maverick the payments might be doable for 36 months. The base model has Apple CarPlay/AA with 8 inch touch screen, air conditioning, AM/FM radio with 6 speakers, etc. For a work truck that seems good enough to me. Even taking a trip in it should be okay.
Nah. Can’t do a strippo model now. Too old for that nonsense. XLT at minimum, and want the power seats and BLIS at least. I think the XL doesn’t even offer cruise.
We've been super busy moving vehicles to be rented to different offices. Seems like we've even bought some used vehicles with low mileage to put into our fleet. Yesterday, moved a 2018 Camry with just under 19K on the clock which had paperwork showing where it was purchased. Another driver had a Chevy Equonix that also had low miles on it. We still have vehicles to rent but have heard they are a it pricey but hey, supply & demand as we learned in economics.
2023 Hyundai Kona Limited AWD (wife) / 2025 VW GTI (me) / 2019 Chevrolet Cruze Premier RS (daughter #1) / 2020 Hyundai Accent SE (daughter #2) / 2023 Subaru Impreza Base (son)
Forgetting to record an oil change is a much bigger...more expensive mistake.
But, hopefully you learned something from it!
Very old story. If you didn’t have that as a comeback you’d be lost and you even screwed that up. So details are ALWAYS important.
jmonroe
Disagree. It is important to have detail people do the detail work...it is people with the big vision....the Elon Musk's, the Jeff Bezos, the Driver100s who make things happen....so the detail people can fulfil the dream.
Forgetting to record an oil change is a much bigger...more expensive mistake.
But, hopefully you learned something from it!
Very old story. If you didn’t have that as a comeback you’d be lost and you even screwed that up. So details are ALWAYS important.
jmonroe
Disagree. It is important to have detail people do the detail work...it is people with the big vision....the Elon Musk's, the Jeff Bezos, the Driver100s who make things happen....so the detail people can fulfil the dream.
Since you aren’t a Musk or a Bezos you’ll have to do your own thinking and that includes grade school arithmetic and a few other similar high level tasks.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis Ultimate just like jmonroe's. '18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
Nah. Can’t do a strippo model now. Too old for that nonsense. XLT at minimum, and want the power seats and BLIS at least. I think the XL doesn’t even offer cruise.
Fair enough. Your car budget is healthier than mine. If I were going to try to own three vehicles I'd need to make some tough choices.
Below is a fair capsule review from Publishers Weekly of the book on Musk and Tesla that I just listened to in Audio book form....
"The hidebound auto industry collides with the spirit of Silicon Valley in journalist Higgins’s colorful debut, a history of Tesla. Higgins recounts the company’s rise from shoestring start-up to the world’s most valuable automaker through many rounds of near-bankruptcy, last-minute funding miracles, and breakthroughs in the manufacture of electric vehicles. The company was founded in 2003 by engineer Martin Eberhard and his friend Marc Tarpenning, with Elon Musk as an early investor; power shifted hands multiple times before Musk became CEO in 2008. Billionaire Musk dominates the narrative: the irrepressible industrialist set visionary goals with impossible deadlines, improvised engineering fixes, raged at underlings, set managers to “clawing at each other in front of him,” headbutted a car on a stalled assembly line, and tweeted so many overly optimistic corporate predictions that the SEC came after him. Behind the shenanigans, Higgins takes an in-depth and well-balanced look at the interplay between Musk’s swashbuckling mindset of “building the airplane as [he] was heading down the runway” and the hardheadedness of Tesla’s veteran engineers and leaders, who understood the rigors of making cars that could kill people if they malfunctioned. The result is sometimes appalling, occasionally inspiring...."
2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class: Too Much Is Never Enough. S560 starting at $131,400 The S-Class’ cabin flatters the senses with alluring design, top-flight materials, and such niceties as massaging seats, a 1,750-watt, 30 speaker Burmester audio system and an onboard fragrancer. Many features are controlled through the vast central infotainment screen, the graphics of which are cinematically sharp. Read Forbes full review at: https://www.forbes.com/wheels/cars/mercedes-benz/s-class/
2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class: Too Much Is Never Enough. S560 starting at $131,400 The S-Class’ cabin flatters the senses with alluring design, top-flight materials, and such niceties as massaging seats, a 1,750-watt, 30 speaker Burmester audio system and an onboard fragrancer. Many features are controlled through the vast central infotainment screen, the graphics of which are cinematically sharp. Read Forbes full review at: https://www.forbes.com/wheels/cars/mercedes-benz/s-class/
I trust if it was all that great @abacomike wouldn't have bought his wannabe.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis Ultimate just like jmonroe's. '18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
My G90 has Continental Contiprocontact all season tires (P245/45 R19 98W front - P275/40 R19 98W rear). They are not run flats - they are premium grand touring tires. Tire Rack sell a set of 4 for close to $1300 and includes free road hazard for 2 years.
I don’t expect them to last very long but when I replace them, I expect to put Michelins on.
Do you have a spare? I was surprised when a friend told me his Volvo V60 doesn't have a spare, his tires aren't RFTs, and there isn't a donut tire. If he gets a flat I guess he is supposed to call AAA. Does this even make sense?
The BMW doesn't have run flats nor a spare so I have a tire repair kit and a small air pump just in case.
A tire repair kit when you get a flat on I-75 or somewhere!
It helps when your in the middle of nowhere and it is easily repairable, yes. Better than waiting for three hours for roadside assistance.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Best bet might be the truck. Gives an excuse to get a sporty toy later!
Well, if you decide to go for the Maverick, but want to save money for a sporty toy later, what about considering the base model Maverick? I mean, does it have to be all tricked out if it's your functional vehicle? And check this out, which I thought was close to amazing—Ford is right now offering 0% financing for 36 months on the new Maverick, as well as 0.9% at 48 months, and 1.9 for 60 months. But if you get the base model of the Maverick the payments might be doable for 36 months. The base model has Apple CarPlay/AA with 8 inch touch screen, air conditioning, AM/FM radio with 6 speakers, etc. For a work truck that seems good enough to me. Even taking a trip in it should be okay.
My guess is Ford hit it out of the park with this truck, expect ADM's at first, then add on the mop and glow, the pinstriping and all the other overpriced worthless junk they will add on. I say good luck getting MSRP for a while after they come out.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class: Too Much Is Never Enough. S560 starting at $131,400 The S-Class’ cabin flatters the senses with alluring design, top-flight materials, and such niceties as massaging seats, a 1,750-watt, 30 speaker Burmester audio system and an onboard fragrancer. Many features are controlled through the vast central infotainment screen, the graphics of which are cinematically sharp. Read Forbes full review at: https://www.forbes.com/wheels/cars/mercedes-benz/s-class/
I’ve driven pick ups that have massage seats and fancy sound systems. No fragrancers that I know of but probably a good idea if you’re hauling pigs and stuff.🤣🤣
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
My G90 has Continental Contiprocontact all season tires (P245/45 R19 98W front - P275/40 R19 98W rear). They are not run flats - they are premium grand touring tires. Tire Rack sell a set of 4 for close to $1300 and includes free road hazard for 2 years.
I don’t expect them to last very long but when I replace them, I expect to put Michelins on.
Do you have a spare? I was surprised when a friend told me his Volvo V60 doesn't have a spare, his tires aren't RFTs, and there isn't a donut tire. If he gets a flat I guess he is supposed to call AAA. Does this even make sense?
The BMW doesn't have run flats nor a spare so I have a tire repair kit and a small air pump just in case.
A tire repair kit when you get a flat on I-75 or somewhere!
It helps when your in the middle of nowhere and it is easily repairable, yes. Better than waiting for three hours for roadside assistance.
Not so good if it is the sidewall and the repair kit ain't going to help. Seriously, I'd rather have RFTs than a repair kit.
Best bet might be the truck. Gives an excuse to get a sporty toy later!
Well, if you decide to go for the Maverick, but want to save money for a sporty toy later, what about considering the base model Maverick? I mean, does it have to be all tricked out if it's your functional vehicle? And check this out, which I thought was close to amazing—Ford is right now offering 0% financing for 36 months on the new Maverick, as well as 0.9% at 48 months, and 1.9 for 60 months. But if you get the base model of the Maverick the payments might be doable for 36 months. The base model has Apple CarPlay/AA with 8 inch touch screen, air conditioning, AM/FM radio with 6 speakers, etc. For a work truck that seems good enough to me. Even taking a trip in it should be okay.
Nah. Can’t do a strippo model now. Too old for that nonsense. XLT at minimum, and want the power seats and BLIS at least. I think the XL doesn’t even offer cruise.
Those cheap wheels have got to go! Do you want to drive this: or this: Talk about false economizing!
My G90 has Continental Contiprocontact all season tires (P245/45 R19 98W front - P275/40 R19 98W rear). They are not run flats - they are premium grand touring tires. Tire Rack sell a set of 4 for close to $1300 and includes free road hazard for 2 years.
I don’t expect them to last very long but when I replace them, I expect to put Michelins on.
Do you have a spare? I was surprised when a friend told me his Volvo V60 doesn't have a spare, his tires aren't RFTs, and there isn't a donut tire. If he gets a flat I guess he is supposed to call AAA. Does this even make sense?
The BMW doesn't have run flats nor a spare so I have a tire repair kit and a small air pump just in case.
A tire repair kit when you get a flat on I-75 or somewhere!
It helps when your in the middle of nowhere and it is easily repairable, yes. Better than waiting for three hours for roadside assistance.
Not so good if it is the sidewall and the repair kit ain't going to help. Seriously, I'd rather have RFTs than a repair kit.
Yeah, but how often is it in the sidewall?
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
SEC went after him - and did nothing, as the corrupt "justice system" only doles out meaningful punishment to the top few if they cause financial harm to other members of the top few. Part of the real golden rule. He's never faced accountability for anything. Really, I love how the standard narrative among random people on the street is that Musk founded Tesla.
Nah. Can’t do a strippo model now. Too old for that nonsense. XLT at minimum, and want the power seats and BLIS at least. I think the XL doesn’t even offer cruise.
Fair enough. Your car budget is healthier than mine. If I were going to try to own three vehicles I'd need to make some tough choices.
Below is a fair capsule review from Publishers Weekly of the book on Musk and Tesla that I just listened to in Audio book form....
"The hidebound auto industry collides with the spirit of Silicon Valley in journalist Higgins’s colorful debut, a history of Tesla. Higgins recounts the company’s rise from shoestring start-up to the world’s most valuable automaker through many rounds of near-bankruptcy, last-minute funding miracles, and breakthroughs in the manufacture of electric vehicles. The company was founded in 2003 by engineer Martin Eberhard and his friend Marc Tarpenning, with Elon Musk as an early investor; power shifted hands multiple times before Musk became CEO in 2008. Billionaire Musk dominates the narrative: the irrepressible industrialist set visionary goals with impossible deadlines, improvised engineering fixes, raged at underlings, set managers to “clawing at each other in front of him,” headbutted a car on a stalled assembly line, and tweeted so many overly optimistic corporate predictions that the SEC came after him. Behind the shenanigans, Higgins takes an in-depth and well-balanced look at the interplay between Musk’s swashbuckling mindset of “building the airplane as [he] was heading down the runway” and the hardheadedness of Tesla’s veteran engineers and leaders, who understood the rigors of making cars that could kill people if they malfunctioned. The result is sometimes appalling, occasionally inspiring...."
Best bet might be the truck. Gives an excuse to get a sporty toy later!
Well, if you decide to go for the Maverick, but want to save money for a sporty toy later, what about considering the base model Maverick? I mean, does it have to be all tricked out if it's your functional vehicle? And check this out, which I thought was close to amazing—Ford is right now offering 0% financing for 36 months on the new Maverick, as well as 0.9% at 48 months, and 1.9 for 60 months. But if you get the base model of the Maverick the payments might be doable for 36 months. The base model has Apple CarPlay/AA with 8 inch touch screen, air conditioning, AM/FM radio with 6 speakers, etc. For a work truck that seems good enough to me. Even taking a trip in it should be okay.
My guess is Ford hit it out of the park with this truck, expect ADM's at first, then add on the mop and glow, the pinstriping and all the other overpriced worthless junk they will add on. I say good luck getting MSRP for a while after they come out.
If what I’ve read over in the CCBA forum is correct, you order the Maverick on Fords web site and have it shipped to the dealership of your choice. So you will get it for MSRP plus the applicable taxes, shipping, doc fee and stuff like that but no ADM junk.
Welcome to the new millennium of car buying.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis Ultimate just like jmonroe's. '18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
Comments
"Many automakers, including Ford, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz, tell owners to replace tires six years after their production date, regardless of tread life. Tire manufacturers such as Continental and Michelin say a tire can last up to 10 years provided you get annual tire inspections after the fifth year."
https://www.edmunds.com/car-maintenance/how-old-and-dangerous-are-your-tires.html#:~:text=Many automakers, including Ford, Nissan,inspections after the fifth year.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2018 430i Gran Coupe
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
For once I kept my mouth shut and decided to let someone else try to teach him something.
Like you’ve said before, better pack a lunch maybe even a dinner.
Let me count the iterations.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
2018 430i Gran Coupe
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
For once I kept my mouth shut and decided to let someone else try to teach him something.
Like you’ve said before, better pack a lunch maybe even a dinner.
Let me count the iterations.
jmonroe
I haven't done division for about 20 years....I haven't done geometry or algebra in over 50 years....I am a little rusty. Besides, I have way more going on in my head these days...how to play tennis better!
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Only saw the top part of the picture but it looked like School of Rock, and when I scrolled down, it was.
A very smooth song.
That's School of Rock Cleveland.
We haven't heard from omarman in a while, he would have pointed that out in a new york second.
Some NSFKids audio, caught by mistake.
RIP Dusty Hill.
When you add as much information as I do and when you are as prolific as I am you could make a small mathematical error which is of very little importance unless you have OCD about minor errors.
My days are full, and since I have a very full active life I sometimes do minor things like division too quickly, it isn't a big deal to most people. Most people get the idea.
When GM was flying high in the 60s the president of GM told his executives, if they weren't making mistakes they were playing it too safe, not trying enough different things. To be great you will always make mistakes...I love mistakes, I learn more from mistakes than successes, it teaches you what not to do. If you are afraid of making a mistake you probably won't be successful....life seldom moves in a straight perfect line.
If finding a small mathematics mistake is that important to you....that is a much bigger problem than me making a minor mathematical error.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2021 Sahara 4xe
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
It's called attention to detail and was very important in my profession.
Not so much in others, I guess.
I may have exceeded the CA Maximum Speed Limit on the way home from work today.
But to show that she has a sense of humor about herself and the song, here she is doing it as a duet with fellow Brit James Corden on Carpool Karaoke....
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jmonroe
Forgetting to record an oil change is a much bigger...more expensive mistake.
But, hopefully you learned something from it!
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Very old story. If you didn’t have that as a comeback you’d be lost and you even screwed that up. So details are ALWAYS important.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2 takeaways. First, don’t mess with the audio in modern cars. Make sure factory is good enough! And 2nd, why would you want to hang a giant boombox there to block all your rear vision?
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2023 Hyundai Kona Limited AWD (wife) / 2025 VW GTI (me) / 2019 Chevrolet Cruze Premier RS (daughter #1) / 2020 Hyundai Accent SE (daughter #2) / 2023 Subaru Impreza Base (son)
Very old story. If you didn’t have that as a comeback you’d be lost and you even screwed that up. So details are ALWAYS important.
jmonroe
Disagree. It is important to have detail people do the detail work...it is people with the big vision....the Elon Musk's, the Jeff Bezos, the Driver100s who make things happen....so the detail people can fulfil the dream.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Since you aren’t a Musk or a Bezos you’ll have to do your own thinking and that includes grade school arithmetic and a few other similar high level tasks.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
Below is a fair capsule review from Publishers Weekly of the book on Musk and Tesla that I just listened to in Audio book form....
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-54545-7
"The hidebound auto industry collides with the spirit of Silicon Valley in journalist Higgins’s colorful debut, a history of Tesla. Higgins recounts the company’s rise from shoestring start-up to the world’s most valuable automaker through many rounds of near-bankruptcy, last-minute funding miracles, and breakthroughs in the manufacture of electric vehicles. The company was founded in 2003 by engineer Martin Eberhard and his friend Marc Tarpenning, with Elon Musk as an early investor; power shifted hands multiple times before Musk became CEO in 2008. Billionaire Musk dominates the narrative: the irrepressible industrialist set visionary goals with impossible deadlines, improvised engineering fixes, raged at underlings, set managers to “clawing at each other in front of him,” headbutted a car on a stalled assembly line, and tweeted so many overly optimistic corporate predictions that the SEC came after him. Behind the shenanigans, Higgins takes an in-depth and well-balanced look at the interplay between Musk’s swashbuckling mindset of “building the airplane as [he] was heading down the runway” and the hardheadedness of Tesla’s veteran engineers and leaders, who understood the rigors of making cars that could kill people if they malfunctioned. The result is sometimes appalling, occasionally inspiring...."
The S-Class’ cabin flatters the senses with alluring design, top-flight materials, and such niceties as massaging seats, a 1,750-watt, 30 speaker Burmester audio system and an onboard fragrancer. Many features are controlled through the vast central infotainment screen, the graphics of which are cinematically sharp. Read Forbes full review at: https://www.forbes.com/wheels/cars/mercedes-benz/s-class/
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Ford’s new trucks have hands free self drive. Pretty cool system with cameras that force you to look at the road.
Our Volvo requires hands on the steering wheel.
No word on the S60… sitting at the dealer. I called to make sure they at least park it inside in case we get storms!
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Do you want to drive this:
or this:
Talk about false economizing!
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Welcome to the new millennium of car buying.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)