I think that played a role. I think the MB chassis is design sacrifices cooling for airflow, and we saw them suffer for it at some of the hotter tracks. On Sunday, the commentators kept mentioning that the altitude played a role as well... Because thinner air isn’t as effective at cooling the radiators?

This is great car for an introvert. Buy it, and in no time at all, you’ll be on a first-name basis with roadside assistance staffers, tow truck drivers, service advisors, technicians, parts counter staff, and rental car agents. Plus, you’ll spend more time with the friends you already have, as you’ll be bumming rides…

Neutral: the spread between best and worst in CR’s reliability ratings gets narrower every year, because if CR just came out and said “every new car for sale in 2019 is exponentially more reliable that the POS cars you grew up with,” they could kiss most of their subscribers goodbye. I mean, besides some old boomers,…

Your rebuttal contains quite a lot of “I” statements, doesn’t it? The average person doesn’t have a solar array to power their home, and couldn’t care less about battery thermal management or anything else going on below the surface. Congrats on missing the point, but I suppose that’s to be expected of any one with an…

Neutral: Yup.

So, here’s the thing about old cars and oil consumption: once upon a time, we were changing our oil every 3,000 miles like it was a religion, because some old bearded men chiseled that number on a stone tablet and everyone just obeyed it without question. All of those old engines were consuming some oil (as all…

The other two replies are correct; the SMG had no “park” position so it had to be left in neutral with the handbrake on.

Another fun fact, BMW themselves state that tolerable oil consumption on this engine is up to 1 qt. per 750 miles.

Someone’s posted a clip from an Aerostar crash test in reply to that comment. If you can’t find it, Here are the highlights: horrific structural deformation, and the steering wheel came off in the impact.

Old things are old. Minivans aren’t cool, with the exception of the VW Type 2 Microbus. A Nissan Juke might be cool in 30 years, based on its originality and defiance of convention, which are two things the Aerostar is not known for.

By that reasoning, a hatchback is a crossover and a Honda Fit is a minivan.

Those mechanics must be really worn out and tired by the end of a race weekend. I’d be completely deflated on Monday morning.

Acura’s death-spiral started long before they decided their corporate grille should look like some sort of can opener.

Acura never lost their way, their problem was the marketplace changed.

The steering wheel coming off is only slightly more appalling than the amount of structural deformation that occurred.

A modern crossover or FWD-based unibody “SUV” is a tall station wagon. A minivan is not a station wagon, based on its sliding door(s) in the back, a larger rear aperture for loading larger cargo, and rear seats that are easily removable/disappear into the floor, to accommodate said bulky cargo. It’s like a traditional…

Modern = lame is the most Boomer thing one could say. As for this vehicle’s coolness: it has none. It’s not an original, it’s one company looking at another one’s product and slapping together a cheap knockoff using leftover pickup truck parts. It wasn’t designed to appeal to the creative, the dynamic, the…

I’m going to let the crash test video that someone else posted do the talking on that one.

All FCA dealers in the US are Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge/Ram, as far as I know. None of them could survive as single-brand dealers, except possibly Jeep.