It is a Ford from the 80s but it’s also mostly a ford Sierra which is what ford put up against the 190e and m3 in group A and did quite well.

I actually considered this one when I bought an xr4 about a month ago. The rust on the door sills imply the rockers are probably gone under the plastic and the inside of the door sills where the floor meets them is probably gone as well.

Supplier side. Hindsight is 20/20 but yeah, I think the consensus is this wasn’t the most well planned launch and re-tooling.

I have a 2020 Explorer as a rental this week and after having been involved in its launch I am quite happy to say it’s excellent. Considering it’s size it’s actually quite “throwable” and can take a bit of aggressive driving better than some other similar suvs and is a pretty nice place to be for my ~1h each way…

I didn’t claim they were peaky, I said the peak power numbers don’t tell the whole story and other more modern engines have flatter wider torque curves, which is demonstrable.

You have have a smooth power band almost 6k rpms wide where the ls3 is nowhere near as flat and is on the decline before 5k where the S65 still has 3k left in it happily.

Power: While both engines make similar horsepower, the LS3 makes 44% more torque (Corvette: 430hp/424lb-ft, versus BMW: 414hp/295lb-ft).

Lamps to be steady-burning. All exterior lamps ... shall be steady-burning with the exception of turn signal lamps

So, who ever is currently in charge of Chevrolet’s design team (I suspect Michael bay) needs to be fired and has no business doing this.

Well, GM’s Vice President of global design is also responsible for releasing cars only fitting of a Michael bay design theory.

Seriously. I just bought a used 2018 Colorado Diesel ZR2. For obvious reasons I did not have a huge variety to pick from and when I found one I jumped on it. It’s my first GM product ever and the dealer experience was a fucking joke. I was at the dealer for 6 god damn hours for a car I called before I left my home…

I think I missed something

BMW is also the company charging a subscription to enable CarPlay... I’m putting the chances of any meaningful updates at about zero.

My dad had a couple ZJ’s (all auto) and an XJ with the 4.0 and ax15. While the manual was great, the approximately 3 feet of throw between gears and the awkward clutch pedal kinda ruined it for me.

Yeah, I have historically been a gm critic but I shopped around when I decided my renegade just wasn’t big enough. When I found out the Colorado diesel got 30+mpg and the zr2 is not far behind the normal truck it made it a real easy decision. Still, the low beams are actually unsafe and it’s missing so much that even…

The colorado is missing MANY options and nice to haves that come standard or basically standard on a lot of other vehicles but the interior its self is actually alright. I have an 18 zr2 and its infuriating that a truck that was basically $50k doesn’t have auto up/down windows for any but the driver’s window or auto…

It seems like between 10 and 20min when I have noticed and watched it while cruising down the highway. Not 100% sure as you can really only tell because of the drop in mileage when you are cruising like that.

About every 500 miles is normal from what I have read for the Colorado 2.8L and a friend with an x5 35d said it has about the same frequency.

For my Colorado it does a regen about once per tank (5-600 miles, 21 gallon tank) and it lasts 10-20min. For that period I am getting high teens instead of high 20s if I’m doing 75-80. We are talking about a couple gallons at most in 500 miles used for regen. Not sure that’s worth measuring for the driver.

The epa seems to have an interesting way of determining diesel mileage though, probably taking into account dpf regen. My diesel Colorado ZR2 (100% stock) does damn near 50% better than the epa Highway rating when doing 70 and my average over the last 3k miles including a bunch of city driving, a couple road trips and…