We had the worst behaved scout troop. Basically whenever we went camping the scout masters viewed it as a time for them to let us loose while they sat around. We went to a boy scout “Jamboree” one fall and the theme was that we were supposed to build a sled and race the other troops. As it was in Tennesee and still in…

Ha ha! That reminds me of also being a dumb 13 year old and our boy scout troop went camping over a long weekend. We too discovered a horde of discarded tractor trailer tires. We rolled a few down a very steep wooded hill. It was night but we could hear those things crashing through trees and whatever on their way…

This wasn’t my car but my neighbor’s 1980 Chevy truck with a straight 6 engine. One day he decided to overhaul the carbuetor. When he stuck it back on he accidentally dropped a screw down the intake and for some reason assumed that wouldn’t be a problem. The screw wound up destroying the block and he had to replace…

Well thought out response and I will agree. If you look at the current Corolla it at least looks dramatically different but its underpinnings are the same. That said, unless Tesla opens a new manufacturing plant I wonder how long of a downtime they could have retooling their stamping equipment. As of now they have a…

Your projections would make the initial Model S close to a decade old, which these days is pretty ancient. About the only vehicle I can think of that has that long of a model run is the tacoma, which seems to have a decade between redesigns. Then again, maybe it isn’t as pressing seeing as the Model S is still a very…

I love Tesla but one thing I see as a potential future problem is in how quickly they can come up with model redesigns. The Model S probably has another 2 years in its current design before a redesign would be expected per your typical model life expectency. Seeing as how it takes Tesla years just to come out with a…

It's not 12:00 here. So there.

Exactly how much money has this guy made off of these films? Somehow I think I’d be a little more happy about things and be doing stuff like... retiring to Hawaii.

Is it superior? Half the thing is probably stuck together with Chinese parts. Far too new to actually know if its “better”.

I have mixed feelings here. If the plan is to save them then they would all be for sale. Sitting in rural Michigan means they have a limited life expectency before they become piles of useless rust.

So GM’s plan for Buick is to simply take Opels and turn em’ into Buicks? How about actually designing a new, full sized Buick sedan?

This will probably be a hit. At this point nobody else has a 200 mile range EV anywhere close to this price. That and the Volt proved GM can make reliable, well engineered electric drive trains. I own a 11’ volt and it has been flawless.

I’m not dismissing this but I’m curious what other carriers China has in the works. This carrier is as everyone knows from a 30 year old Soviet hulk and about half the size of the typical US carrier. So in order to reach anything close to parity means a quantum leap in a short time.

No no no no no... Windstars were the biggest pieces of shit known to man. Adding a diesel engine changes nothing since the rest of the van will fall apart.

She looks like she needs to eat more meat and taters.

I enjoyed that immensely

I had forgotten about these. Then again most ford cars of that period were forgettable. They all looked nearly identical: generic boxy cars with plastic square head lights

The Volt goes 0-60 in 7 seconds. The i3 does so in 4 tenths of a second faster. Big. Whoopty. Doo. As far as the handling I love the way it handles. Honestly its the absolute quietest car I’ve ever owned and additionally, as someone with a 2 hour each way commute this is the first car I’ve owned that is totally…

I used to belong to a antique engine club ( the big things with cast iron flywheels ) and there was a member who owned a few of these. They were big pieces of shit too. He had one for sale for $150 and there were no takers.

“Besides operational range”