It’s unnecessarily frustrating even in the best of circumstances because it is made unnecessarily frustrating. My last new car purchase went very smoothly but there was still B.S. hassle that wasn’t required, namely the finance/paperwork guy who starts trying to sell you on dealer-added shit. And even on the sales…

Why would you need to?  Dealership does not have to mean service centre.  Authorized (or manufacturer run) service centres could be easily and cheaply established in many cities or towns.  And given you aren’t required to take your car under warranty to a manufacturer-tied dealership for service now and still have…

Well first of all, a Camry is not a segment, it’s an option within a segment that includes Accords, Altimas, Mazda6s, Sonotas, K5s, and weirdly Chargers. So there isn’t a monopoly within a segment, just a brand. And as I said elsewhere, the price of a (Camry) should be the same regardless of what dealership is selling…

It’s not referencing a pre-existing option to buy from the manufacturer because there isn’t one from any of the main-stream manufacturers. No where on Ford’s or GM’s or Chrysler’s or Toyota’s websites can I build a car the way I want it and then click a button to then place an order and buy that vehicle. There’s an…

The idea of haggling over the price of a brand new product makes little business sense. And there are so many things you can’t haggle on the price over (buying a new home from a developer, a cell-phone, groceries). Allowing for haggling on new products immediately tells your customers 2 things: 1) your product was…

*disclaimer - this is not a defence of Tesla*....

Well, not yet... :D

Thanks for doing the deep dive in to this shit report guys. It’s garbage ‘studies’ like these that create sensationalized news bites and the next thing you know people are suing Mitsubishi for building unsafe cars and their cousin Jerry died in one so they should be compensated. It’s unfortunate studies like these…

Don’t you know electronic keys like this are designed to fail in the instance of axe-murderers chasing you?  Just changing the trope to one more high-tech, with the added bonus of it actually ending up working for you just as you get killed and then the killer being able to use your car to make their get-away.

As far as I’m aware,  you should be able to disable the alarm using the physical key once you’re in the car, even with the FOB MIA.  Check the owner’s manual for that (usually it is unlock door, put key in ignition, turn to “RUN”, wait until horn beeps, turn key to “OFF” or some variation).  My new car doesn’t have a…

The logical reason for this car actually being a Cadillac is that it makes the most sense and also allows for GM to justify the $150k-$200k asking price this car will have to command. GM posing the prototypes as being Corvettes would be the biggest and best troll in ages. Meanwhile, the Corvette continues being a…

Oh, I remember that brand. It was such a weird mixed bag of Isuzu and Daewoos and I forget what else. That morphed into Asuna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%C3%BCna) which was essentially GEO for Pontaic/Buick dealers if I recall

A friend of mine uses a 2nd Gen RAV4 as his winter runner - I think they’re more spacious than the 1st Gens and look a little nicer but still have some off-road chops, insofar as a car-based CUV can have vs the current poser RAV4.

I may know of a yellow VehiCross near me that would be for sale. Upside is it was around…

Your points are fair enough until you get to #7;  whatever circumstance you’re conjuring to think a similar beam in an Avalanche or this truck wouldn’t also punch through the box and cab of your truck under the same incident, you’ve got a nasty surprise ahead of you.

When did BMW hire Chris Bengal back?  Because I haven’t seen a BMW look so bad since he was head of design.  Blech!

This story is appropriate for me today, as my mechanic broke some sad news to me about my Mazda6. It was in for an oil change and what I thought was to replace the suspension links on the driver’s side (I’d already done said repair last year on the passenger side). Lo and behold, the issue is the tire and bearing, no…

The last good looking trucks that actually looked like trucks were in the 90's, specifically the C/K pickups from GM and the F150 before the ‘jelly-bean’ edition came out. I’ll even give credit to the first gen big-rig-styled Dodge Ram pickup, almost always mistakenly attributed to being the first ‘modern’ looking…

Hey Klaus, you want to stop hearing people say/write shit about your product, then perhaps do some engineering and make a car that is as dynamically good as the lauded E46 is proclaimed to be. Look, you can be pissy about arm-chair pundants like myself ragging on your cars all you want; we’re not going to stop so you…

If your wife likes the look of the Model3 vs pretty much any other EV I would question your wife’s ability to determine what looks good (though I’m sure she lucked out when she picked you of course.... :S )

That and a network of fast charging stations that (were) free to use. Word of mouth relational feedback to generate buzz is great, but for someone entering into the EV market, knowing that being able to charge your car up (almost) as easily and in convenient locations as your ICE car would really push a lot of people…