I wish Lotus’ last ICE car was a replacement for the Elise and not the Evora.  Seems like what we are going to get is an electric Evora anyway.

In a contemporary Mustang the map lamp housing is held to the roof panel with one-time use clips that will break or stretch the housing tabs so when you go to replace the bulbs (a consumable part, since they were too cheap to use LEDs), your map lamp housing will then fit loosely or not at all. You can replace it for a…

Somebody needs to build an 11'8" bridge crossing over the top of this ford.

As something derived from Corolla, they should have called it the Corollary.

When the Elise was sold in the US, it was done so under a few NHTSA exemptions (5MPH bumpers, headlights, and airbags). It never actually fully complied as it was. But Lotus were granted these exemptions because they were a small manufacturer that could not meet the burden of fully complying (or at least, the NHTSA…

Banning air fresheners is non-scents!

Bronco II

To be fair, lots of cars from the 70's and 80's would reliably (or, should I say, unreliably), fail to start on occasion. Or take a lot of effort to get them to start.  Once we got into the late 80's and beyond, and the switch to electronic fuel injection had happened and quality had improved cars tended to start…

This is as inevitable as the sunrise. Cars will become electrified. Domestic car companies will make poor decisions. People will continue to buy SUVs instead of sports cars and sports coupes. Enthusiasts will complain, but still not buy new cars.

This is worth it for the gas station conversations. Imagine the BS and conspiracy theories you could spin while 93 octane is pumping into this thing.

I’m going to guess that the investment and engineering effort to fit what is likely to be essentially a new roof panel with a large canvas moonroof to an existing model is quite small. Especially since the Renegade, which shares the platform, had a large cloth roof option at some point (not sure if it still does). The…

New logo feels less like a car company and more like an app.  Although maybe that’s what they were going for, for some reason.

This sounds like a prequel to Smokey and the Bandit.

Impossible to make very many of those old designs comply with current safety regulations. From the thin pillars and all the glass, to the lack of crush space inherent in many of the designs (thin doors and shorter overhangs), as well as the pedestrian crash requirements it just isn’t in the cards, sadly...

Counterpoint: Sedans are useless and CUVs do everything better than regular sedans, and they raise the driver up a few inches for occasionally better forward visibility and increase manufacturer profit margins. One could argue that they handle worse than sedans, but they still manage to handle better than the driving…

Under transmission these used car sites should just list two options: 1) Two Pedal 2) Three Pedal.

Does it come with  limited slip differential?  Because I think I would hate it if it could only do a one-wheel-peel.

Since this is an issue with a failure point that could probably be estimated fairly accurately in any given Tesla, they should issue a software update with a “countdown to bricking” timer so owners would know when the part would fail and could sell the car or budget for repair accordingly. It could even be a hidden…

People fought in WW2, and then came home and bought little happy sports cars like this Sprite. Today, people fight on social media and drive angry cars.

Years ago I bought an ‘88 1500 for $1,490, put on an *additional* 170,000 miles over a period of 17 years, wrecked it, and sold it for $1,400. I would have held out for an additional $90, thus making it free, had I remembered the original purchase price at the time. Solid trucks.