Reason # 3,784 why I love Chris Harris and think he's the best motoring journalist we have at the moment. Great driving, great noise, great vid.

OMFG that pass at three minutes was AWESOME.

Premature ejalopulation.

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This garbage in Memphis. As I-55 comes west across the Mississippi River into Memphis it turns about 90 degrees south at a clover-leaf interchange with Crump Blvd. There's also an entrance ramp just before the exit to stay on 55. Not to mention you're taking a major north-south interstate and reducing it to one lane…

Any exit ramp that also partially doubles as an entrance ramp. I know they are used when space is tight, but having one lane have people merge on, merge off, braking, and accelerating all at the same time sucks.

It should look just like the CrossBlue Concept and be named after the Māori word for passing gas.

Toyota Previa.

I had one of these and it was amazing, but then any of the older cab-forward minivans were like that. My old 1963 Volkswagon camper van was small by modern standards but ther was an apartment in there. The only down side is the people in the front seats become the crumple zone for head-on impacts.

American horsepower...

This this this. I don't believe Tesla will be able to remain autonomous for more than a decade simply because they won't be big enough to stop someone else from buying them out. However I believe Daimler or Toyota will buy them out first, seeing as they already have a stake in the company

I drove a VW Golf 1.6TDI manual for four days in Norway last year. 1100km - full tank of gas. At no time did I or my wife (whose daily driver here is a 135i) think that the car was underpowered. Obviously, it wasn't a rocket, but we never felt that we needed more power.

I always get a kick out of it when someone drives a diesel and complains that it's gutless at redline. Of course it is. Diesels aren't like gas engines. Diesels make all of their torque very low on the RPM band. My VW Golf TDI's max torque sweetspot is at 1900 rpm, not redline. Keep it between 1800 and 2500 rpm…

When a car does not have enough power to make a safe pass under good circumstance I would call it dangerously underpowered. And no, there is nothing wrong with my skills as many racing schools and sanctioning bodies will attest to. Though that car may hit 60 in 12 seconds when only carrying a driver in a magazine…

As a Bluetec driver, I can say, no, not crap. Not the high mpg option, but a commercially-proven diesel engine in a passenger car has some attraction too.

Can't be any worse than my 110 horsepower econobox... non oil-burner