I grew up around them and owned one.  I went from a Dodge Dakota to a S10 blazer in college because I wore out my Dakota.  It was a big step backward and I don't think other suv's like the Isuzu trooper were much or any better.  

Honestly I think some of the issue is people are quoting days from when SUVs were more commonly body on frame construction vs unibody cars.  A 93 S10 blazer was a roll over prone deathtrap that would dissipate energy poorly compared to a car.  The 90s was when I first remember hearing that suvs are more dangerous in a…

What were the bugs, I have read the history of the Airflows and they were safer and aerodynamic but the biggest critisism was that they were ugly.  The drivetrain was pretty much a carry over.

The car was great, but it was a risky venture.  The styling was based on airflow but was ugly and honestly very few people will buy a car that they think is ugly even if they know it is better.

Honestly this is the story of Chrysler since the “merger of equals”. Someone comes in to fix them, produces a bunch of new cars that are based on European cars, but bloated and soft because “Americans like crap cars” and cars are easy.  Then the cars flop and they just sit back, take in money from the profitable truck…

Honestly it depends on packaging and how efficient they are at using the same assembly line to produce different vehicles.  Ford has been doing a great job with the Bronco Sport, Maveric and Escape using common components to produce three differnt vehicles off the same platform for three different demographics.  Even…

Love the 3.8. It could be that I’m working on a supercharged series 2 3.8 but it honestly seems like these engines are getting more notoriety recently.  I'm even seeing Turbo Chrysler 2.2s and turbo TBirds get some love.  

You have a high opinion of people's memories.  When they have a decent supply of cars people will get a key in the mail and go down to claim the car they think they won and walk out with a 500 a month ten year loan on a Sentra because they have negative equity on thier trade in at this very dealership.  There are…

A lot of places don't have infrastructure designed around big cars.  It's not just fuel, but I bet the renegade fits through narrow streets much easier.

Honestly 2 and 3 in the installment could probably fill up a list. Just list them over and over alternating between them until the list is done.  It’s like they watched the chase from blue’s brothers and just decided that was the whole movie kicked up a notch

My dad went on and on about that movie when it was on in the before time when I watched cable TV. The best I can say is that movie had a certain time where it may have been good or cool but I had a hard time watching it.

Maybe to counterbalance the nose hanging 3 feet in front of the wheels

There’s not a lot of junk in the trunk, just fuel

It’s crazy that entertaining is valued over fair and consistent.  Nascar is out they, they could just follow that

Honestly that generation of Hondas probably takes heat because the expectations were so high.  I remember in high school a lot of people thought it was impossible to kill a Honda so they just abused them and then when they did break blamed the car.  The list though, like many isn't great or the rational is often…

Yeah, they had a lemon. My family had one that still felt new at the point of being 20 years old and I don't remember anything other than oil changes and preventative maintenance

I don't want this, but now I want to make a mini doughnut selling kei van, or really any kind of small kei food truck.

Yeah, I think the leaned back radiator was too get more core space without making the front of the car taller in the C4

It’s not just that, in a busy shop it is easy for someone to not torque the lug nuts because multiple people might be working on the same car at once.  It's an easy job but a screw up can be very dangerous and expensive.

It’s possible, but the wheels are hub centric on most cars so the hub bears the weight of the car and the lug nuts mostly just keep the wheels on the car