I am tardy in reporting an addition to the family fleet. My wife retired her Infiniti EX35, which she was never that thrilled with, in favor of a 2018 Audi Q5. She even managed to find one in the blue she liked and with the lighter interior that she always goes with if possible. That combination did require us to have CarMax ship it up from California, but it was worth it. Now she absolutely loves her car. It has less than 19,000 miles on it so I count it as practically new, but MaxCare was still purchased. It is still an Audi.

@davesaddiction Building in a desert would seem to me to be the opposite of sustainable unless the population is kept very low.

@ranwhenparked Hey, bucket seats were a pricey option back then!

I couldn’t get to investigating my gas gauge issue until today. I loosened the straps and reached up to see if I could find the ground wire but all I could get was the gauge sending wire so I dropped the tank. The problem was immediately obvious, the idiot who installed the tank did not connect the ground wire. At all. Of course I am the idiot under discussion. Sometimes I amaze myself. I blame a brain cloud.

@highlander They've always been common here. To be fair to the guy there are a bunch of them around that office. One even peaked in on my wife when she was working.

@100percentjake A true Buick pilot wouldn’t have gone sugar free.

@whoistheleader Having grown up in a rural area I can assure you that dirt roads are very real and very dusty.

My wife sent me this picture the other day of some Mustang carnage in front of her office. I guess the driver was unlicensed and uninsured. He claimed that he swerved to avoid hitting a marmot but I'm still not sure how that would have resulted in him facing that direction as the street is in front of him and a parking lot behind. I won't even mention that the speed limit is only 30mph since that doesn't seem to apply.

@atfsgeoff

@texturedsoyprotein Maybe they are just certifying that it was pre-owned? Like they're not trying to sneak a new car past you? Yeah, I got nothing.

@civicwagonengineer Remember that not all of the PNW is wet at all. Not much wetness in south-central Washington or eastern Oregon.

@musashi66 I had a Hop Valley beer with dinner and I’m about to finish off the bottle of Lagavulin 16 that’s in the cabinet. Luckily my wife bought its replacement for my birthday.

@nth256 I’m watching Barrett-Jackson and according to them ALL cars are great investments!

@hfv How does a station wagon survive family hauler duties and still have an interior that looks like that? That's fantastic.

@carsoffortlangley My 75 year old dad drives a 2014 Ram truck and he pretty much ignores everything. One of my sisters paired his phone to it, but he won't answer it. Even when he does bother to have his phone with him. He saw my wife's Audi and just rolled his eyes.

@st80mnd I used to have some NB dad shoes. They were great. Really comfortable. Unfortunately they also fell apart way too soon.

@carsoffortlangley Well, if you go in reverse my DD is a 2017 and I was born in 1965 so 52 years!

@hfv Part of being old is that things that I had as a kid have become more rare. Once upon a time you couldn't give away a 72 Gran Torino so they were thrown away. Now they are thought of as a muscle car so they've gone up in price. I'm not sure they support $95k, though.

https://classics.autotrader.com/classic-cars/1972/ford/torino/101590408

@100percentjake Vaya con Dios. It definitely won’t be a dull experience.

@benn454 You could put a small blower on the 305 if you want, but personally I'd go 383 stroker crate engine and keep the original in case it somehow became important.