If you have a 10-year-old Benzo you probably should be Richie Rich to pay the repair bills.

The core answer is defined by the regulation.  Once the manufacturer notifies NHTSA, they have 60 days to notify owners of the recall, whether the parts are available or not.

So I understand the knee-jerk reaction of “hey I bought this vehicle and it has a defect and I want it fixed NOW”, but you do realize we are in the middle of a pandemic, right? Everything was delayed for a couple of months just due to the world shutting down, and even still suppliers are unable to run at full capacity.

Despite working from home, my vehicle choice has not changed. I still have a full sized truck that tows my boat and fits all the wood, tools, and other crap that I seemingly haul at least a couple time a week. But it is a lot easier with 2 weeks or more between fill-ups to justify it.

Cool, it works for the 0.27% of people who live in South Dakota and probably cannot afford Autopilot anyway.

I understand that, but the Puma is more of a crossover than a small car, and as such would compete with the eleventy billion sub-compact CUVs in the US. But for some reason Ford chose the EcoSport, a small, terrible crossover developed for third-world markets as the sub-compact CUV to bring to the US.

I don’t shop in this market of vehicles, but this thing actually has decent looks.  Much better looking than the EcoSport.  But 30k is a ton of money for something this small.

I agree with this statement, but Ford had to compete with the Hellcats of the world, and there is only so much capacity that can be used up for niche cars.

His writing on Jalopnik was very good, with just enough comedy to make it entertaining.  I stopped following after that since his material got tired and he seemed like he tried too hard, making it cringe-worthy.

So why do you feel the need to lash out against other middle to lower-class members of society for the scraps that the rich leave out for us? Maybe the Uber drivers deserve $16/hr after expenses while teachers deserve more?

Planes do not fly in the air stacked up with others only a few feet away. So when autopilot on a plane requires pilot intervention they have some time to refocus on the task.

In a plane, a pilot has a lot more time to take over and react if conditions change and the autopilot requires human intervention. On the highway, the autopilot can require the driver to take over, but you are going 70 mph and there are other vehicles all around going 70 mph within feet. Humans cannot shift focus that…

Go on Safercar.gov and read the customer complaints sometime. I guarantee you will walk away thinking consumers are dumber than you thought.

Puma needs to come over to North America. I really do not understand what caused the powers that be to choose the EcoSport over the Puma.

Exactly, its hard to look at a VP with 33 years experience and be like “no, that guy was totally forced out”. No, probably he is going to take his swimming pool full of money and go do laps in it, or whatever rich people do.

I was picturing a mash-up of Gremlins and Herbie the Love Bug.  Happy little race car Beetle by day, but get it wet and it goes around town terrorizing everyone.

This is really the question. How as a nation of voters do we keep supporting these terrible candidates?

Very clearly these are made out of galvanized steel, not aluminum.  Based on the fact that it looks like galvanized like the rest of Uhaul’s equipment made out of the stuff.

I think that a mainstream brand like this can lure buyers in with lease renewal rebates.  When you go to trade in your Edge and you can get a tax rebate and a lease loyalty you might try it.

It has less payload and towing because of the configurations its available in, not because its less capable.