Here's another thought. I live in New Mexico. Believe it or not there are mountains here. 'Same with our neighbors - Colorado, Utah and Arizona. On a long uphill, the battery will go flat pretty soon and all you have is the ICE. Will the hybrid hold highway speed going up hills? Allow passing at...
Sport mode in our 2018 Honda CRV does keep it in the lower gears longer. The only thing I use it for is going down steep mountain roads. It causes the engine to hold back a little. (But not much.)
I just did another practice pricing on a Maverick and it seems the cost had gone up. It now includes an "acquisition fee," which I don't remember from before, that the fine print says is to cover the cost of setting up and administering the lease account. I would buy not lease it, but the...
In a previous life I hauled bags of fertilizer in the back of a Volvo station wagon, which was the "good", i.e. my wife's, car. And, for some reason, left it over night. It took over a month for the smell to go away.
I got in a lot of trouble over that.
'Was not the only time I got in a lot of...
I'm going for the hybrid. We live in the mountains in New Mexico at over 7,000 feet. It snows here, sometimes a lot. When I was working and had to try to hump it into Albuquerque to work regardless of weather, I needed 4x4. Now that I'm retired we can hunker down and wait for the county grader...
Anyone looking at the one-piece hard one? I had a hard tonneau on my Tundra a decade ago and it was strong? 'Was matched to the truck paint. Are all the new tonneau black, or does the hard one come in paint to match the body? And does anyone know about what the one-piece one is likely to weigh...