I was so tempted to seriously look at a Model Y after the various youtube videos came out showing how Tesla seemingly finally got it right with design and build quality after stumbling so hard with the Model 3, but I can’t get over that minimal cockpit. I’m sorry but I need dash gauges and I’m never going to be…

I’d pay that for a ‘96 XLT in mint condition and under 100k miles, but not for a bloodstain-red II that was clearly a tow vehicle for a significant portion of its life. I do respect someone that has managed to take such good care of a vehicle for this long, though. That thing looks barely a year old. 

Yup, and this is why I am holding out for a pair of full Morimoto housing swaps. They run about 1200 bucks on sale but the difference is night and day compared to simple bulb swaps inside stock halogen housings. It was years ago but one of my first professional jobs was a stage lighting tech. Light is a fickle thing…

Have to agree with others here: the average cost of yearly maintenance is going to be higher, not because it is more frequent but rather due to the fact shops that cater to European vehicles love to tack on an premium to already more expensive parts, because they can. I stopped buying Audis in 2002 in favor of leasing…

Am I supposed to be surprised that hot garbage doesn’t command a heavy price tag on today’s market?

I want to take your post seriously, but it is so full of buzz words and catch phrases it feels more like search engine algorithm bait than an actual cogent thought. If you’re not a bot you’re doing a really, really good impression of one.

Police in my state drive 4x4 vehicles because it snows in my state.

Oh FFS. If they want to save black lives they should call for an end to Escalade manufacturing. 

Here in Idaho the parking lots for local camping and hiking areas are full of vehicles with license plates from Oregon, Utah, California and Washington. People that are laid off from work and living on unemployment with nothing else to do have apparently taken to road tripping and getting outdoors as much as possible. 

They’re tippy pieces of shit on the road, is what they do. In my early 20's I took one as a rental in Kona, thinking it would be fun to go down the Hawaii highway with the top open. Wrong. Took it back 45 minutes later in favor of a standard sedan because it was so squirrely at anything faster than 50mph and driving…

Except everyone like me that grew up familiar with the name if not actually owning one, now make a six figure income and have been waiting for Ford to make a proper offroad utility vehicle. There’s been a Bronco-sized hole in my heart since I gifted my beloved ‘89 XLT with modified 351 Cleveland V-8 to my nephew when…

Yeah. Pity that same moxie is nowhere to be found in the movie she is most famous for. 

It took this show to make you realize Holt was a great actor? Hell I had that figured out fifteen minutes into Warm Bodies, that was better than it had any right to be thanks to Holt and Rob Corddry’s genuine and honest performances. 

It’s sad because even if this movie succeeds, he’s still a complete fucking failure as a father. 

Except it’s not. It was a fine FX showcase but the script was garbage and towards the end it gets bored with itself and begins arbitrarily killing off the remaining cast for fuck of it. Gene Hackman just basically shrugging and falling to his death rather than put in the minimal effort to save himself after spending…

I like it. I especially like the thought that was put into it like the way they moved the Miles to Empty metric to the inside of the fuel gauge. This design doesn’t abandon skeuomorphism as much as you think though, Jason. These are still gauges, they just removed the dial hand and replaced it with a hard number. The…

It looks identical to the cluster in my 2011 F-150, only they removed the dial hands on the gauges and added a line of text info at the bottom of the screen to display radio info, outside temp and nav info. I appreciate all of this. The more info I can move to the center dash the less I need to move my eyes down and…

You understand that is just the animation that displays for a couple seconds once that mode is engaged, right?

Same happened the first winter I had my ‘05 F-150. Hopped in after scraping the windshield and put the defrost on full blast. I got a blast alright. With a loud “POW!” this crack jumped from drive side to passenger side. Dealer replaced it under warranty but told me this is a thing now because of changes that were…

First Gear: Erik is still salty anytime Tesla is mentioned.