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Don't feel bad, I was confused at first on my 2020. The problem is that it doesn't show leading zeros, so when you look for the odometer it doesn't look like an odometer, it looks like some sort of gas mileage or trip gauge due to the low number until you build up some miles. It doesn't help...

As I remember the OP was primarily interested in audiobooks. The problem with external CD players is that they most likely won't resume play from where they're stopped which would be a problem with a book. Either ripping solution is a better bet, whether you're a Android or iPhone user. That...

Nice! I owned a CB350 and a CL350 long ago. I crashed one and it disappeared off the side of the expressway and I never saw it again. The other one was a dog, but after I recovered I took it out to see if I still had the cajones to ride. As I was riding along it literally shot out one of the...

You're absolutely right, as far as it goes. It depends where you're willing to spend money. I've never bought a new motorcycle, and have sold most for as much as I paid for them a few years later. And I like working on them and doing most maintenance myself. The one I have now I paid 9G's for in...

That seems a little bit oversimplified. Whether you pay up front or take out a loan you still have a car which is depreciating over time. If you buy a car for 30 grand, it's worth 30 grand minus X per month / year or whatever. So after 3 years if it's worth 20 grand you're still out 10 G's. If...

It's just a balancing act. More down = lower monthly. Since I'm mostly retired these days I prefer to give 'em chunk up front when I have the money sitting there and keep the monthly lower as my income will vary from month to month. I could have done zero down but the monthly would have gone up...

Whether you lease or buy is certainly a complicated calculation depending on how you look at all the angles and weight them to your particular needs. In my case a car is sort of a waste of money as I am mostly retired and don't drive all that much since the wife and I both have cars. The...

It's possible. I really wanted one of my step-kids to buy it for the payoff since there's no way they could have gotten a deal like that anywhere else, but no one had the scratch right then. In the end it cost me 4500 down and 330/ month for 30K miles, but that includes the Chicago 27/month...

And why are the buttons so small? It's not like there wasn't room on the fob to make them larger. And I do use them sometimes, mostly when I look back and see that the car hasn't actually locked when I walked away. Those folding mirrors have their own issues but as a locked indicator they work...

When I went to re-up my lease for my '20 GT I worked the whole deal on the phone, telling the dealer I wanted the same deal and payment as my last '17 GT. We went back and forth a little and worked it out. Then when I went to do the swap the dreaded finance guy explained that since Toyota...

FWIW I'm also perfectly happy with my '20 GT / PP with no turbo. At 64 my driving "style" is slow and steady wins the race. I love the interior, and in Chicago the heated and cooled seats are great while AWD is pretty much a necessity at times. The HUD is a nice feature and works well with the...

Don't feel bad. I once fed my key fob through my 2 stage snow blower when it fell out of my pocket. It was sorta funny since I found a piece of a key fob on the ground and thought someone was gonna be bummed and it turned out to be me. I actually retrieved all the pieces as the mountain of snow...

Push button start/stop is certainly easier, but doesn't come without some inherent dangers. It's very easy to leave the car running accidently if you're distracted, I did it once in my wife's car and left it running in a grocery parking lot for a 1/2 hour or so. Here's a sort of scary article...

For me that guess is spot on. On any narrow street in Chicago, especially on really tight one way streets, you'll see most of the mirrors folded in even if folks have to do it manually when they get out of the car. At my last house I heard a bang one night and my next door neighbor's car had his...

This might be kinda dumb, but have you tried taking your wallet out of your back pocket, assuming that's where you carry it. I've never had a major discomfort problem in any of my three GT's with leather seats, but on any long drive I tend to take my wallet out of my back pocket after a while...

IIRC back in ancient times when your main lights were sealed beam units fog lights were an add on that were usually yellow and had a very sharp downward focus. The idea was you could shut down the main headlights to reduce the reflected light from the fog creating a big blur in front of you, and...

Yep, my 2020 has one. But it's not all that surprising they took it out on the 2021's since actual headphone jacks - without dongles anyway - are also being phased out on so many phones these days. But I got curious and found this USB CD player on Amazon: AIE - OE Integrated Vehicle CD Player...

It seems I got a yes and a no so I tried it today. On a USB thumb drive with all the songs in the root it did indeed resume where it left off in my 2020. I didn't try it with multiple folders so maybe that's different. One of the reasons I was curious is the OP want's to play audiobooks on CD...

A tad off subject, but I have a question about using a USB drive to play music. Both my '15 and '17 CX-5's had no position memory and would always start playing music from the first song in the drive whenever I turned off the car and then restarted it. That pretty much made it useless as a music...

I bought a card from eBay for 50 bucks for my '20 GT, an "L" if I remember correctly, and it worked fine for a month then went belly up for no discernable reason. It wouldn't even show up on my computer, it was just dead. So I bought another one for 37 bucks that's an "M" and it works fine. The...