I’ve only done the early buyer thing once, I bought my ‘93 Grand Cherokee and suffered through several things that came up that should have been caught in the testing stage. None of them were truly eath shaking, but the rear drum brake shoes coming apart was a hassle. I don’t remember how many sets of shoes and drums t…

I have to kind of give him some credit, he actually makes the CT look worse than it does coming out of the factory door. The Houston one is even worse, those wheels scream “Dork”.

I read some article about it a long long time ago, before or right after the nozzles were introduced.

My dad didn’t have any cars I really liked. I guess the ‘66 Toronado would be my pick. It was an awful sort of silverish color and It was gone in less than 2 years. He always had “old man’s cars”, even before I was born in ‘56. Two Caddies, a Lincoln MKIII, the Toro, 2 terrible T-Birds, some sort of boring Olds that I…

They should buy it back, replace the engines as needed, and then sell them as used trucks with an enhanced powertrain warranty, like any engine issues covered for 100K miles.

Reliable? Ecoboost? Wow. This is headline news to a friend of mine who has had the Ecoboost F150's and ALL of them had multiple turbo/engine issues. Most of the problems happened after the 3/36 warranty was up, but still supposedly in the powertrain warranty period. Ford was basically, “We aren’t going to cover it!”.…

It’s 4800 for an AWD one. Better. 

Six colors and two are white? They have lost their minds. I don’t understand how it can weigh so much and not be electric and full of batteries. Oh wait, it says the curb weight is 4200 pounds, more like it. 

For a daily driver, you couldn’t even give me a manual car. It would immediately be taken to the dealer and traded for a “shlushbox”. I haven’t ridden in a auto Mustang for a long time, but I would imagine the trans in it is like the one in my Challenger, anything but a “shlushbox”. Last time I drove a stick for any…

At least Mazda has one great color. Hyundai, at least on the Santa Cruz, has none. When the best colors are black, silver, and white, something is very wrong. 

So far, that’s the only one I’ve seen. It’s usually a bad sign to only see one of a vehicle around here soon after it’s released. I’ve seen a ton of barely released vehicles over the years. In 1991(?) I saw the Jeep Grand Cherokee that was shown at the Detroit Auto Show, the one that was driven through a pane of…

My ‘79 Trans Am had one of the worst factory paint jobs I’ve ever seen, except a friend’s Chevy truck which had paint peeling off every panel. They repainted it, and while it wasn’t great, it was a huge improvement. I had found a guy who painted cars and was about to repaint my T/A in a slightly different red than it…

I actually know a couple of guys, it’s always guys, who love it, or claim to. I don’t think anyone just is “OK” with it, you love it or hate it. Even my one very conservative friend, both in cars and colors, hates DG with a passion, and he likes very muted colors on vehicles. Another friend loves DG and plans to look…

A friend of mine lasted two weeks at a local Dodge dealer. He just couldn’t bring himself to screw over people and families who really shouldn’t have even considered buying a new car, let alone a loaded up Ram 1500 Quad Cab. The only sale he didn’t feel guilty about was the Ram stripper he sold to his brother in law.…

They have at least made it to Ohio. Been here quite a while.

Was it on Secor near Central? That’s where I saw one parked at Bubba 33's, I think it was. I just laughed and thought, “What kind of dork would buy that thing?”.

I saw my first one on Telegraph Rd, between Toledo and Monroe, MI a couple of weeks ago, then saw another one(?) in Toledo. I see a green Rivian all the time, and the owner seems to like it a lot.

We call it “Grey Primer Pearlcoat” around here. My previous most hated color was F8 Green. I still hate F8, but not at near the level of DG. My one friend who was born in the old USSR says it reminds him of his childhood in whatever town they lived in, most everything was f’ing grey. 

When I got mine in ‘81, the catalytic converter was plugged solid, to the point that the car could not turn a tire. Holding the brake and punching it produced a sick “Squeak”, and off it went. I had spoken to Mondello Performance before buying it and was assured by Joe himself that the weak Olds 403 could be made into…

I had my Lab Joe for about 13 years, and I would say 90% of his barks sounded pretty much exactly the same. Upset, angry, wanting in, barking at the neighbor’s dog, they all had the same, Yap! Yap! Yap! sound to them. If I could have changed two things about him, I would have made his health issues, which were…