As an owner of the follow Kias: Rondo, Sportage, Rio and Forte I can confirm a few facts about Kia ownership and how fantastic the Stinger will be as a daily driver.

I am not excusing her lack of driving skill, but.... .

Cadillac Deville, 94-99

Factory five did it with the 818 using a subie if that counts.

Because we should all be driving an Impulse!

Shaheer stupidity.

I think a big factor in her being alive is the fact the frame failed so spectacularly. The frame ripping away in that manner kept her side on the car from eating a large amount of g force from the crash. It may have also saved the Sequoia driver as well for the same reason.

Yeah, 100% luck. Why some people always attribute survival to good design is beyond me. I think it’s reasonable and obvious to say GM had no intention for the interior volume to peel open like that.

I work in safety systems and I can tell you this is pure luck she is alive. If you want a textbook example of what a car company wants a vehicle to never do in a crash, its this. I mean logically how could you protect anyone in the back seat in a case like this? No, I suspect GM will look at this to see what they can…

Being next to ships that big in the ocean gives me ridiculous anxiety and I have no idea why. That video raised my blood pressure as well

All those bubbles in the water = reduced buoyancy. This dude is lucky he didn’t simply sink, never mind being sucked under.

My god, he tripped the dead man’s switch by reaching out his hand to touch the ship.

Saw this happen once working at a Mazda dealership years ago and sticks in my mind to this day. A couple of days prior one of the big talking sales guys (I’ll call him Carl) had worked with a customer who traded in her fully loaded fairly-new 350Z 6MT for a new loaded RX-8 6MT (this is when they were both new to the…

True Story. After they had been out for a year or two, I was shopping for an FJ Cruiser. One evening I went to the local Toyota dealer and had the following told to me during the test drive:

“You’ll notice here a switch for Differential Locks. That’s part of the security system. It completely immobilizes the drivetrain…

True Story - Years ago I test drove a used Z3 at a dealership in Vegas. We took it out onto a side street, and I leaned into the throttle a little to see how it accelerated. The sales guy let out a “Whoop!” and said, “Man, I’ve never been in a ‘Porsh’ before!!”

Type 4: No idea what they’re saying but they keep talking.... “This Expedition has a spare motor built-in, so when the main motor breaks down you can still drive”. He was clearly confused about Ford’s fail-safe cooling system, which cuts half the cylinders if you lose coolant, to allow a limp-mode. Best part is when…

And sometimes the salesman accidentally talks shit to your face.

You have to understand for the 1 enjoyable down to earth customer you get there are 10 idiots before that that want a $70,000 Tahoe for $400 a month because they saw an Ad in the paper. I try to be even keeled with everyone I talk to, but I even notice myself starting to judge. When I start that I take a walk and…

“Why the fuck would he put an exhaust on a lease?”