Piston Slap: Sam Hell's Scion Grab Bag

TTAC Commentator Sam Hell Jr. writes:

Hi, Sajeev!

I read with deep concern your notice that the Piston Slap mailbag was empty. You kindly answered my previous query about putting more conservative tires on my ’11 automatic tC (now at 51,000 miles), despite the fact that I erroneously addressed the email to your parasitic e-twin Sanjeev, and I’m happy to pester you/be of service once more. Please find, below, my questions, and thank you for your time.

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  • Bpscarguy Maryland!!!!!
  • Canam23 I had three Taurus wagons over a span of eleven years as company cars. All were midline models, (GL) with the 3.0 Vulcan motor. I put about 33K miles a year on them and to be honest, I liked them. They were comfortable, roomy, safe, handled reasonably well and I liked the look of the wagon. The key was to work deal on an extended warranty to cover the inevitable transmission failure at about 85K miles. Other than that they were very reliable for me.
  • 28-Cars-Later Next stop after will be Shanghai.
  • Kjhkjlhkjhkljh kljhjkhjklhkjh since most EVs are north of 70k specc'ed out + charger installation this is not news. You don't buy a new car every few years.This is simply saturation and terrible horrible third world country level grid infrastructure (thanks greedy exces like at the holiday farm fire where I live)
  • MaintenanceCosts I think pretty much all of the difference between this year and last year is that the right-wing noise machine, facing an audience crisis, has decided that EVs, and wildly distorted claims about EVs and EV mandates, are a good way to to get gullible people angry and start replacing lost traffic.