Automakers did try and focus on more economical cars. Then everyone went out and bought CUVs/SUVs, and automakers (mostly American) stopped making economy cars. Ford themselves weren’t immune, which is why they no longer sell a “car” other than the Mustang; nothing else they made was making them any money and people…

My Neutral plan is to try and hold onto my daily driver for absolutely as long as I’m able. I would like to get into a new car, but I’m not paying over MSRP (People who do that are stupid; period) or settling. It’ll be twelve years old next month. Thankfully it still gets in the neighborhood of 35+ MPG.

The Santa Cruz isn’t for the Maverick truck crowd. The Santa Cruz is for the individuals that are shopping the CUV segment, but want a bed, which lack of typically limits the CUV segment.

A heavily biased favorite of mine, but only because I’ve owned four of them. I much liked the badge-within-the-badge motif, that also separated itself from the font above.

I’m hitting ND. There’s a lot of flags getting thrown up.

Your phone has a GPS chip built into it. How do you think the pictures you take generate their geolocation in their EXIF data? It’s not by guessing.

I’m actually surprised this bit wasn’t stressed more.

I’ve been to a lot of Indycar races, and the most I’ve ever spent was Nashville last season, but that’s only because (1) I stayed the entire weekend, as in for every session and (2) I stayed in a hotel literally three blocks from Nissan Stadium. I did that weekend as big as I could without having a hard card, to see…

This is the exact reason literally a decade ago when Tesla started pushing the Model S I constantly remarked at that time that it made absolutely no sense that the Big Three weren’t utilizing a large truck chassis for EV development. Nearly every truck at the time - sans, what, the Honda Ridgeline I believe at the…

It’s biker cosplay; the entire Harley Davidson “look.” It’s like a meme come to life where “Dudes will turn 40 and base their entire persona on this one look.” I’m certain it absolutely drives casuals to potential-entry individuals nuts, since there are inevitably people that just want to associate themselves with say…

At least you put tangible effort into yours. It’s time and effort you could translate into value.

Everyone tells me my Fiesta hatchback is too small, but I’m 5'7", and I’ve managed to fit an entire 34" wide door and door frame into the car along with flooring and bricks and whatever else I need to haul around. It’s basically been my bought for $14K new “truck.”

I’ve owned four Fieros, and they similarly have no cup holders... until one day I realized that you could wedge a big cup in behind the exploded gauge panel between it and the dash. Then you had to be careful that the lid didn’t pop open, as drink would spill all over the dash wiring. A legitimate cup holder would…

Montoya ran afoul of that rule at the US GP in 2004. He had his car fail on the grid and ran back for the T-car. As the race hadn’t been red flagged, there was some confusion as to whether or not he could actually get into the car, and Williams kept sending him back and forth. He finally did take the T-car, but was…

Cars have got a lot better than they used to be.

There’s another somewhat strange record this year that was set inadvertingly; a driver qualified for the 500 without settting a time in any capacity during the official sessions.

Weirdly enough the only “modern” hockey game I own is NHL 2001 on the PS2. I bought it on a whim for $2 in a used video game store. It’s a rather fantastic game for what it is, and I believe was not only the first PS2 hockey game but also one of the highest rated games released the year it came out.

Thanks. Nassau Blue. Won’t lie to you; I was one of the guys who +51% of the decision to buy the car was based on it’s color. You have to see the color every day. Don’t settle.

I have a 99 C5 I’ve owned for just under a decade now. It has just under 70k miles on it (I’ve put well over half that in my ownership). I daily drove it for a short time but I can’t drive it as much as I like because of kids. Honestly it’s not really difficult to find really low mileage used Corvettes because all the…

On one hand there’s a reason why the platforms haven’t been changed much because... they just sell incredibly well and are a good package as-is. On the other hand it seems like everyone and their mom/brother/cousin/nephew/roommate/associate/barber/mailman owns a Charger or Challenger.