No joke, back when I was in high school, I wrote a report about the USS Monitor vs CSS Virginia (ex-Merrimac) battle of the ironclads and called it Ferrous Duelers Face Off.

The simplest answer is usually the correct one.

Too good a reference to pass up citing the source:

It does not, because if you use the steering wheel controls to adjust the volume, the loudness and position of the physical dial are completely unrelated. That’s what makes it so epically annoying that it’s designed this way.

The knob in my Golf TDI is like that. I point it straight up and then adjust the volume with the buttons on the steering wheel. The problem is, it detentes to juuuuuust left or or right of straight vertical so it’s always at least a little annoying. Also when my wife drives she just adjusts it to whatever she wants…

A large boulder the size of a small boulder.

That’s the problem, you can get a bigger, more capable truck for the same money. There were plenty of Gladiators at the local Jeep dealership for well into the $50k range. That’s 3/4 ton truck money. I love the idea of a Wrangler pickup priced to compete with midsize offerings, not so much priced against 1/2 to 3/4…

Well, here in CA, the sale of “black Explorers” to the public should be illegal.

A Tweelman, if you will

Maybe there’s an entire subclass of customers who want bragging rights on how much money they lost on needless markups over MSRP combined with wonderful Korean brand depreciation.

Sample Kia Telluride markup items:

Dealer markups on large SUVs that are made by Hyundai and Kia. What a time to be alive.

Would be a much shorter article if it was about all the things that WEREN’T wrong with it.

Subaru Has It Together

An STI engine swap would, of course, be neat but I’m just happy with the blue lighting if I’m honest.

Brandon sounds like a true friend. Broken cars are easier to fix than broken friendships, so go easy on him next time! Great story as usual.

Dude. I think that’s a lambo

“The Dodge Challenger is a muscle car that’s been around in its current form since 2008".

During engine warm up fuel trims are deliberately enriched to allow unburnt fuel to make its way though the combustion chamber into the exhaust. The secondary air injection system then pumps fresh air that is diverted from the intake directly into the exhaust manifold to essentially make a flamethrower into the…

an “interactive” Jeep museum