I never thought of that but you are right.

“Fire Risk for 380,000 vehicles, Jalopnik surprised GM didn’t build them”

The comment was that they recalled “all of 75 cars”, not “all 75 cars”

Because of the Chicken Tax, every Transit Connect is built as a fully-assembled passenger van, then when they get here, the carpet, rear seats, airbags, and glass is removed and recycled.

GMs will run poorly forever. I had a bunch of them back in the day, and they all leaked, squeaked, rattled, and generally ran like garbage, but always got me going where I needed to go.

The issue isn’t the lack of spending, its the amount of bureaucracy, kick-backs, quid-pro-quos, backroom deals, nepotism, and bribes that takes place on public contracts.  Constantly we hear about corruption between public officials and contractors on stuff as major as road projects and trash collection and as small…

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You could get the 4.6 with a manual, but they restricted the 5.4 to auto-only.

It is perception.  I can say the same thing about American cars.  I think the interiors are pretty great, but every journalist goes on and on about how it is made of plastic.

I am too lazy to look it up, but I bet other civilized nations tax corporations and rich people more than us.  I read somewhere before that individual tax rates are pretty equivalent in the US compared to other nations that have healthcare and decent infrastructure.  Between the tax breaks for those who could afford…

I have owned and driven some sketchy cars, but probably the most sketchy event was when I worked for a corner gas station/repair shop in my late-teens. I started driving the wrecker when I turned 18, and since we didn’t do insurance tows, we generally only got a couple calls per day from loyal customers to the shop to…

Somehow Hyundai/Kia, for all their progress, can’t seem to not make the car feel cheap in some way.

Fuck those capacitive buttons so hard. We had them on our Taurus SHO and I hated them for all the reasons you stated, plus they don’t always work the best.

I used to work at a different OEM and we had one we used as a competitive analysis car that we would dust off for the executive dog-and-pony shows.

I had the pleasure of driving this back-to-back on a closed course with a Hellcat and the ZL1 Camaro, circa 2015.

Except most houses have 2 vehicles, so more like a double in electricity.

My thoughts were like an external power bank like you might use to charge your phone, but larger. Use an SAE plug so it connects to the charging port, and the vehicle can pull charge into the vehicle battery as needed. It may not need cooling based on the discharge time, but that could be self-contained in the unit.

I don’t want to come here to debate who is wrong and who is right, or which car was more in the wrong.

Was I supposed to be impressed by the base price? I can get an Explorer XLT starting at $34k, or save even more and get a base model for $32k.

I was thinking one of those trailer hitch mounted cargo carriers with a battery on it.