The world is full of business idiots. These are the kinds of people who massively underestimate expertise, experience and effort. They look at a market segment and base their projections on its totality. They willfully ignore how saturated it is and how dominant other players are.

So the government mandated TPMS, but didn’t require that all automakers display tire pressure at each wheel?

Interesting idea, but boosters are $30 which is a hell of a lot cheaper than this option and they’re removable and easy to clean. Also, who the hell buys safety seats every year?

The real mistake people made is dismissing Nissan as a dead brand. Just because they’re less prevalent in affluent neighborhoods, ignoring the occasional Infiniti, doesn’t mean they weren’t selling in big numbers both in the US and abroad. Nissan has been updating their lineup for years now so it was inevitable that…

I’m guessing you live in a safe neighborhood with great quality of life. That’s why you default to skepticism. If you lived in a rough area for a year or two your perspective would change dramatically.

At some point about two decades some genius traffic planners had idea to increase the delay between light changes so that all 4 lights stay red for several seconds. It likely helped reduce accidents from people speeding through late yellows.

It’s not just the South. It happens here in the Northeast too. In some areas it’s every intersection almost every single time a light turns red.

New Yorkers are, and always have been, the worst. The best way to describe them is impulsive and pointlessly aggressive. They don’t look more than one car length ahead and so dive into every single little opening only to get stuck. Then they forcefully cut others off in an attempt to regain lost ground. They’re the…

I disagree. Many Americans have their own homes with driveways, if not garages, making it easy to accommodate EVs. In Asian and European nations, many, if not most, people live in apartments and parking is at a premium. For those people EVs are highly impractical.

It is important to know that the London E-Prix held the pit lane and at least a portion of the racing surface indoors, inside the ExCeL center, whatever that is.

This has nothing to do with the US, applying only to Land Cruisers sold in Japan.

Toyota is right. Just because the suburban affluent are cheerleading EVs doesn’t mean they’re feasible for the vast majority of the population. I’d like to get an EV at some point, but there are so many considerations on top of just buying the car. Those worries range from how to charge the car to considering the risk…

Policy makers live in safe, affluent communities and as a result are ignorant to the consequences of their decisions. In the meantime, they get to pat themselves on the back like they’re doing a great service for low income communities. Rest assured, if their own neighborhoods were afflicted by persistent crime and…

Harbor Freight’s quality is very much determined by their suppliers. If the manufacturer is Taiwanese, you’re generally getting a much better tool. Snap-on, more than once, has been found to be using rebadged tools from those very same companies.

Every time someone gets outraged that people might actually like a Camry I can’t help but think they’re overcompensating for something. There are tons of aspirational cars out there that are overrated for anything other than impressing friends and neighbors. Worse still, despite the price tag, they can’t even match…

Turns out the guy ran out of fuel. I don’t remember the specifics but he posted a video where he explains it all including his screw up.

Considering that LG developed the drivetrain for this car I’m guessing they’re the ones on the hook for addressing these problems, financially if nothing else. Also, it’s not that uncommon for battery backs to have issues, this is still relatively new tech and consumer products are still susceptible to these kinds of…

VWs are too unreliable to be competitive with Japanese brands. Who the hell wants to deal with a car that’s going to start having problems at 50k miles? So of course VW is going upmarket to target consumers who lease and thus are less likely to encounter issues.

Modern cars are not supposed to make random noises because engineers have a lot more control over what’s going on inside the engine. All the pops and gargles coming out of new cars are as fake as speaker noise. They don’t do it as a compromise to performance, they do it because marketing departments realize that it…

I could be here all day listing examples, but in the end I have to say extreme aggression. That manifests itself in all kinds of ways that doesn’t involve road rage. Driving through some neighborhoods is a great way to ruin your day because of how aggressive people can be and how flagrantly they violate traffic laws.