Historically disruptive tech costs jobs in one sector while creating them in another. This is a smoke screen because Toyoda does not like the concept of going fully electric and never has. He’s not totally wrong about the tech, at least in the near term. Right now plug in hybrids make the most sense as the grid…

It’s really hard to clean a title and there is enforcement.  Most of these flood cars get purchased at auction by overseas buyers.  The few that are left end up at someplace like Chapman that sells them as “Branded Title” cars. 

It is criminal and fines are hefty.

The dealerships won’t send these cars anywhere. Insurance companies will be dealing with them after they play submarine. The insurance companies will buy them, then sell them at auction as flood cars with salvage titles. It’s really hard to wash a title these days since the feds started tracking the vins. And it is …

This might keep the exteriors from getting damaged by flying debris, but when the floods come they will all be totaled (except maybe the one’s on a lift).

Distracted driving is every bit as dangerous as drunk driving. I think it is way past time that the law treats it accordingly.

A coworkers F350 has a negative effect on road safety, pedestrian safety, air quality, gas prices and massively increases foreign policy costs, as fuel dependence leads to military incursions overseas.

Subaru has had a large number of recalls, warrantee extensions, service bulletins along with threats of class actions over their CVTs. Honda and Toyota limit use to lower power lowish cost vehicles to avoid the issue and still use slush boxes in many applications. Toyotas E-CVT is a completely different technological…

The manual is dead. The next generations will not have manuals to purchase. It is not about trends or coolness or even take rates. It’s about regulations in both Europe and the US. The GTI and Golf R are no longer offered as manuals even though the take rate was incredibly high. Euro regs made it impossible to…

Not sure about the Xterra part.  Body on frame SUV’s are all the rage now and selling like mad.  The whole overlander vibe is creating a lot of sales opportunities. 

The CVT is a flawed concept. Slippage creates heat, heat creates failure. Slippage is inevitable. *

1. (Manual Frontier) Most people don’t care and the Frontier is a reskinned Model A Ford. The Frontier doesn’t need a transmission, it needs a new Frontier.

I rented a Juke once.  Whatever they were asking for it was too much.  To call it  a crap can is an insult to cans full of crap.  It had less than 10k on the clock and felt like it had 20x’s that.  Poor fit and finish, terrible mileage for a small car and then a check engine light all inside of a day, convinced me to…

It was a typo. It was supposed to be “people will try to tow a fifth wheel trailer with a Subaru JuSTI at 70mph.”

Rat Rod = “I do not have the time or money to do this right.”

Mid race passes in NAPCAR are meaningless. Lucky timing on a pit stop does far more to improve a teams position than any on track action. 

And I don’t get the appeal of stuff like F1. Seems boring.

Sadly the manufacturer voided to warranty due to off road use.

People don’t realize Toyota’s hybrid CVT’s have nothing to do with the cone belt disasters from Nissan and Subaru.  They are more different than a manual and a conventional slushbox. 

Nissan used to be the Japanese brand you bought if you wanted reliability and couldn’t afford a Toyota. Then slowly but surely they degraded their product line, cut costs and shipped cars with shockingly high transmission failure rates. On top of that, they kept reskinning their sports car and mid sized truck to the…