Sooo Mr. Morizo, can we pretty please have a Dakar rally homologation special from Toyota to go along with the GR Yaris?

Oh, I wouldn’t want to buy one myself. I have a C6 Z06 for sports car duties. I just want it to exist in the world and maybe see one at a track day at some point. The world needs more cool cars.

Don’t remind me about Anthem, it makes me sad.

My favorite weird name for a vehicle part is among KLR650 owners, the “Balancer Chain Adjuster Lever” (which was known to cause issues on early bikes) is known pretty much universally as the ‘Doohickey’

This thing is amazing, I’m sure it would be an absolute hoot to drive on a snowy road.

Yeah, little bit of bodywork but firmly a streetfighter riding position and look which doesn’t do it for me. It’s a competitor for the Z instead of ZX in the Kawasaki line.

I am seriously just waiting for any company with a Canadian dealer presence to make a midweight electric sportbike to swap from my ZX-6R. So far the only midweights are naked bikes (and really only Zero has made one and has any sort of dealer presence) and the only sportbikes are ridiculous halo models. I commute on…

I’m not a big fan of this trio. They are acting far too much like frat boys for my taste. At least that’s how it seemed in the first 3 episodes of last season before I stopped watching because I couldn’t stand the constant ‘banter’ and just smacking each other for no reason. Did the later episodes improve on that?

Possibly! In theory older dual filament bulbs also satisfy this as the high and low aren’t on at once, but they still have the interlock. My old c4 corvette was that way until I messed with the wiring to decouple them.

Yeah it wouldn’t be hard to wire the fogs straight to the high beams so that they are always on with the high beams. The thing for me is I want to have a fog light switch that always works - I don’t want to be forced to have the fog lights either off OR on at any point, so that solution isn’t acceptable to me.

American regs are also the cause of one of my personal automotive lighting pet peeves: the fog light / high beam interlock where your fog lights turn off when you flip your high beams on.

I wouldn’t mind the timer on the jets being a bit longer, but I found that was one of the more fun aspects to me. Once you realize that when you’re travelling downwards to any degree it reduces your ‘fuel’ usage, it becomes a fun game of gliding downwards at a shallow angle, skimming the water to cool them, flying…

I really really don’t care about all the fluff surrounding this series, the documentaries, etc.

One of mine is in my toolbox. One of them is probably still inside the frame rail of my car somewhere, or has fallen out on the road at some point.

Considering you can easily go purchase an aftermarket head unit with Carplay that doesn’t require any sort of recurring fee, BMW really had no way to justify this one. Apple doesn’t charge a continuous licensing fee or anything.

Yeah, the NPP is what I’m talking about - on the C6 it’s vacuum operated, not electronic, so it can’t stay closed when the engine’s off even if you tell it to.

My C6 Corvette with the active exhaust kinda does this stock. The valves are held closed with vacuum, so before the engine has started they default to open. So everytime you start the car it has an initial bark and then quiets right after as the valves get enough vacuum to close.

Ah yes, the well known not-crossover cars, the Compass, Crosstrek, and Kona:

Jumping from a CR-V to a wrangler isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, more fun and the wrangler will hold its value a lot better than the CR-V if you are planning to keep one of the two for another several years.

I really don’t care about most of SYNC because all I want it to do is run carplay. My phone’s always going to be a more up to date, feature rich device than the car’s infotainment. If these updates mean it will learn that, and whenever the car turns on I just get a big button in the middle for carplay, perfect. Plus,…