It’s the kind of math you do when you want to further a narrative, my friend.

You do realize the guy doing the work isn’t getting paid that right? Or are you completely without competence?

Most of these technicians are getting raked over the coals by SnapOn/Mac/Matco truck finance, but they can’t work without the tools, so it’s a catch 22. Does your employer provide you with the equipment necessary to do your job, or do you have to buy your own PC/Desk/Chair/etc for whatever you do? New software comes…

You don’t go to a Greek restaurant and order spaghetti, you don’t go to a Korean dealer and drive out in a new sports sedan.

I will own a gas car for as long as I can. And If I ever buy an electric car, it will be as a second car.

“Maybe it’s too close to Lexus’ logo”

And that is exactly why you should. Go buy an unloved C4, add your own SBC of whatever flavor you want, and go through the suspension.

A person has every right to push their beliefs on whoever they want. It’s encoding into the bill of rights.

You do understand there’s no right for you to push your beliefs on the rest of us.. If renting a car and driving a little EV makes you happy, go ahead and do it.. You do what you want, and the rest of us will do what we want. See how easy that is?

Very true. The single largest restriction now on a modern exhaust is the cat which makes sense given modern emissions requirements. Though you can’t cheap out on a high flow cat without running into a CEL...

Most modern turbocharged engines now the only exhaust part you change is the downpipe. Mufflers only for sound…

+1. Test pipes do nothing on modern cars. In the old days (pre 1990s) you could replace the catalytic converters on your 5.0 Mustang (which I did) with an off road H-pipe and gain nearly half a second at the drag strip. But the newer cats flow so efficiently that you’ll see zero gain in most cases if you remove them.

end up rocketing into peoples’ living rooms and shops. I don’t think we need to make it more likely that that happens.

I want to buy one of these, and then drive it into a ditch so fast it ends up on its roof.

See: Ducati Scrambler Icon. It’s $8895 [$100 less than a much heavier, less powerful Harley Iron 883] and it’s selling very well among hip yutes. The whole Scrambler sub-brand seems to be pretty successful at exactly what Harley needs to be doing. And the last couple of generations of Ducati have significantly…

Lift your spirits with the AMC Eagle Sport!

No, the Bravada, Envoy, Trailblazer and Saab Whatever were GMT360's, not related to the Tahoe/Yukon/Escalade/H2, different platform. The Rendezvous wasn’t even truck based, it was related to the Aztek, but good hot take anyway.

The E55 isn’t really a car you get chauffeured in, it’s a little too small for that. You want the S-Class for that, with the extended wheelbase and giant backseat area. The E55 AMG was always more of a driver’s car (as far as Mercedes goes) that was meant to compete with the BMW E60 M5. The E60 M5 made 500hp from a…

Between the two of them, they’re like Forest Gump and Rainman.

Hang on, what does a panda wearing an anteater hat have to do with anything?

This world really is the blind leading the blind.