A holding group with lots of money. I don't think age should excuse Hyundai from pursuing more reliable powertrains especially as they can buy all the technology they need from suppliers. It would be interesting if Hyundai managed to build cars for nearly half a century but hadn't learned anything about powertrains in…

The Pony came out in 1975. 39 years of development, plus it's part of a huge conglomerate.

But Auto News and JD Power point to the fact the 2011 Sonata featured a lot of new-to-Hyundai technology, like a direct injected turbo four and a new transmission. What that study revealed for the industry as a whole was that cars are apparently getting "less dependable" because of "new technology."

They've lost marketshare in the past year. I am uncertain if they've lost marketshare the year prior as well, but they've actually got one of the oldest lineups currently.

What we said about that study was that it remains to be seen if survey participants are marking their cars down because the downsized engines are as not economical as they hoped, or if the navigation systems and infotainment systems are more complicated than expected. And how much of that is vehicle dependability or…

Carbon fiber steering wheels using a CFRP core instead of a metal skeleton are also just as safe as regular ones according to BMW:

We have tried to use the leftover raw carbon fibre from i3 and i8 production to make carbon fibre parts, mixed with plastic. We chop up the leftover fibers and mix them all together, so it doesn't matter where they come from or what their original job was supposed to be. After we cut them up, we mix them with plastic…

I do remember getting a kick out of that Spike TV commercial back in 2010 when they got MJF to come back for a BTTF homage.

Shit, that reference flew over my head. The last movie I watched was like 7 years ago.

I heard it runs on grappa

Unfortunately, it's not just aero. I can't imagine a car being able to steady itself after hitting a curb at 300 mph. For that matter, I don't know how a tire is supposed to survive. If the car is cornering with that force, it must be employing huge levels of downforce. And if it's operating with such a huge level of…

You know, I really feel sorry for you, reading some of these "expert" replies to what you're saying. There's no car in the world that can hit a curb at 300 mph and survive, as that would at the very least fracture the wheel and blow out the tire. And if this car relied on that much downforce to begin with, even just a…

Think that might be the intention for the Lancia Thema/300

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If the infotainment is clear and concise, it's made easy and the only things you would worry about is forward/reverse and volume. The problem here is that Ford did a piss-poor job of it.

I used to work at RIM in Kitchener back when I was a student; they gave me a Curve and it was an awful device. Contrast that to the first gen iPhone that came out and it was day and night. And over the next couple of years, all I've seen is BB fail to respond, and when they did try to move into the consumer space,…

To be fair, I can't live without music. Especially when I'm driving more than 60 miles anywhere.

But hey, Chrysler Pacifica!

So are you claiming that the majority of the pollution in China is caused by cars rather than the obvious fact that the majority of power is via coal powerplants? With that notion I think this conversation ends. You're right, lock yourself in a room with a running car and a burning pile of coal and see which one kills…