I hear ya - VW has been shooting for being the first to truly become a major EV player at scale. If you let sink in what they’re trying to accomplish (remain one of the largest automakers in the world while going all in on EVs means a ramp-up on EV scale that nobody else has even begun to commit to yet - even though…

I’m a bit sceptical about that shared bearing. The accumulation of tolerances for that interface is quite long:

In one of his videos he mentioned being in charge of fasteners back when he worked at Ford. So he’s knows the nuts and bolts. 

I think “more bearings” = bad as well as “bigger bearings” = better is a bit of a simplistic argument. In reality, it’s more nuanced than that.

“Maybe I missed it, but where is the turboencabulator located?”

Man, I rail against this “threaded fasteners=bad” mentality. The plastic clip that doesn’t snap after 8 years of driving is rare in my experience. “People aren’t going to service this” feels like a very, very OEM perspective. Totally believe his reasoning on not liking threaded fasteners, but they sure feel worth it…

Parts bin engineering can make repairs easier since it can lead to greater parts availability. 

I’ve watched a few of these and love the technical discussion, though I always feel like his hatred of the “parts bin” is a bit too idealistic maybe, in that he acts like it’s just laziness and money that drives parts bin engineering when there are as many reasons for it as there are against.

So we all have to live with the choices of the debt burdened idiots in everything right down to car color so they end up a little less upside down on their next vehicle purchase? So every damn vehicle on the road has to white, silver, or black because these boring colors have wide acceptance?

I want to wait until the year one launch bugs are sorted out, but year 2 they’ll probably expand the color option pallet, get their manufacturing sorted out, and this would be a perfect vehicle for what I need. Right now I’d opt for the bright blue or maybe the gray.

I occasionally need a truck bed, and this with about…

I still have memories of this truck in this trim. In 1994, it was just about the coolest thing I had ever seen. Given that my partners “vintage shop” stays afloat selling 90s clothes to 25 year olds, I genuinely believe that the time is right for Ford to bring back Eddie Bauer edition livery.

Ford needs to bring back the Eddie Bauer green and khaki trim package. It’ll be like printing money.

Green is a critical and often-overlooked color for most cars, imho.

It’s possible to get the bone stock Maverick with 4WD and the 2.0L, I was surprised to see this, it’s just above 25k with the bedliner as only option, and honestly it’s not that much different from higher trims, it surely looks cooler

I’m excited by the orangey red. Growing up dad had a Maverick Grabber. I think the color was called Grabber Red. The car was cool. Park near something red and it looked very much orange. Park near something orange or yellow and it looked red. Mom would go into a store and tell the kid bringing out the cart to look for…

Absolutely. I don’t know who this ‘Elizabeth Blackstack’ person is (because it’s confusing with all these new people), but the first few sentences of this piece are absurd. If her entire premise behind this car being a ‘hot mess’ is its high service costs then other people have explained it much better than I ever…

I think the SLR was extremely good at the thing it was trying to do at the time, which was be a supercar GT, which at the time there simply weren’t that many of (basically just the 550). The problem was that that class of cars got really popular shortly thereafter, and so it was almost immediately succeeded by (kind…

Exactly. This isnt a routine service. This shouldve been an insurance claim, but was probably not reported to protect the resale value of the car. No one wants to drop that kind of coin for a accident car that may have been totalled by the insurance 

This isn’t a reason to not buy a Mclaren SLR, it’s a reason to not buy a neglected supercar. New steering rack? a well-maintained one probably won’t need one of those. And if you keep a car up it won’t need everything at once and probably a whole lot less.