My ex girlfriend drove one of these, and it hurt my soul (and my body) to ride in it whenever we took her car anywhere. This is during the time when my daily driver was an 01 Cavalier Z24 (5spd). I never felt in any way that the car was decent for the money, at least from the passenger seat (I never drove it). Yes, it…

Which is why are idiot governments should not have sold their shares (at a loss no less). At least then there was some leverage. Also, deals to bring/keep manufacturing here always seem to be one sided (ie: in favour of the manufacturer) and incentives have few if any strings attached. Frankly our politicians don’t…

There are two issues I see with this: 1) Lexus isn’t having all their dealers implement this for 1 year trial period (because anything shorter, the hagglers will just wait it out) and 2) there (was) a lot of cross-company dealerships that offered different brands from different companies on the same lot (this may no…

I’m an avid fan of Suits, and I’m pretty sure that Donna has on many occasions had a conversation with Harvey about other male characters (Louis or Mike typically) or sometimes about women in Harvey’s life. Granted if you are saying they can’t/don’t have conversations with male caracters about how they think so-and-so…

It is a Japanese car, and in Japan the driver sits on the right so maybe they actually did think of it, and no-one doing the left-hand drive cars design-change had the thought to move it.

Was the title of the article Click-Bait-ish? Sure, but it also wasn’t inaccurate. Stating the article “shouldn’t have been written” is mystifying since the content of the article was to analyze and where necessary rebuff inaccurate statements made by the GOP candidates regarding the military or foreign policy as it…

I imagine the argument would be that by displaying a show of force, they have prevented/warded off someone from conducting such an attack. I’m sure there is some threat assessment out there that was conducted that suggested that it would be a possibility, and it is probably true that it could be. Probably was written…

Sure, the screen is still displaying stuff, but you don’t need to look at it to do things if there are buttons/knobs for controls. If the screen is just for NAV/display of date (track no/name, hvac temp) then done. All this other crap isn’t necessary and really no-one is asking for it in cars - automakers are just…

Hmmm... this might make me actually sign up for the service.

I don’t think he was referring to aftermarket replacement, but replacement by the dealier when it cacks out. If anything, this design method is another strike by automakers to hinder buyers from ripping out their factory system in favour of an aftermarket head-unit.

And this is why they shouldn’t be touch-screen. I came to realize that part of the reason there is such an uptick in distracted driving with phones and such now is that everything is touch-screen, so you can’t do anything with them by feel. Consider that 10 years ago, it was buttons and you could basically change…

I find Mercedes goes out of it’s way to design horrible dash boards. The CLA and this are prime examples.

I’m not really a fan of the push-button start, but unless you buy a base econobox, you’ll likely never get away from them now. When they were on supercars 10 years ago, they were cool because that was how race cars started. Now they are just dumb - having a push-button start in your Merc GLA doesn’t make it better,…

I remember thinking at the end of that commercial “my, how far we have fallen”.... The Emporer truely has no clothes now.

except when nav is still an option, and you don’t take it, then you can end up with this:

This is what I was wondering. Maybe they will partner with another streaming service like Crackle here... or just buy Crackle and then problem solved....

I recently renovated my bathroom and am wishing I had seen this earlier as the steel enamel tub I had would have worked nicely for this. Ah well. Not like I have a shop or tools to do it anyway, but a fun idea.

That black and white photo reminded me of another actor. When Hollywood decides to revive Knight Rider again, if they want to mimic the look (and perhaps acting chops...), I suggest Adrien Grenier...

Yeah, but doing a dealer allocation isn’t the best way. Better would be to have an open order system and as each order is placed (ie: you go into the dealer and they login to a site that once a car order has begun, the car is “bought” from the available inventory unless the process is canceled - sort of like what…

Which, lets be honest, sucks. But to prevent the same sort of situation in the future, Dodge will be telling dealers exactly how many Hellcats they’ll be getting. Once the dealership sells out of their allocation, they won’t be getting anymore, so they won’t be able to take orders for cars that don’t exist.