The Buick is the only car from an automaker that I would trust for parts & service.

Nissan really should have started with re-badging the Patrol from the get go with the first gen Armada.

You don’t see many European or Asian cars with fake wood like this. Most of theirs is real,

The Outback is a significantly larger car that competes with the Crown Signia, Blazer, Passport, Murano, etc. so it had better be more refined. Subaru’s Equinox competitor is the Forester.

Yeah I wasn’t suggesting tint, but it’s weird that we live in 2024 and it doesn’t seem like there’s a simple solution for that. I looked into ceramic coatings but it sounds like they can also cause weird distortion issues at night. 

IDK, that’s why I’d like them to add a head up display or just a separate driver screen. First thing I do in any car I drive is figure out how to turn the center screen off. Hyundai and Volvo make it very easy.

I genuinely wish someone could develop an effective windshield heat-shield/reflector product, though. I drive hours through the desert summer sometimes and the sun coming through the windshield onto my thighs is searing—I usually just put a towel over them but in general there’s too much thermal energy coming through…

I dunno, materials were genuinely higher quality in the preceding ‘90s to early ‘00s era cars though. It’s hard to capture material quality in an image, but it’s easy to imagine the softer touch points in this Concorde vs a ‘00s 300C.

As my dad always says, ‘I haven’t liked the look of an American car since the ‘70s’.

Can I turn the main central screen off when I’m driving at night?

I guess where I’m going with that is the original Supras weren’t meant to be track cars but instead very nice and comfortable road cars. Sure replacing the engine will make a mk4 lighter and more tractable, but as Toyota built it seemed more like a Japanese muscle car of sorts. Meanwhile a hardtop Z4 seems like an…

absolutely worthy of the Supra nameplate.

Seems prettier at night indeed.

Agreed. ‘Car-free living’ seems like a hollow promise when you’re stuck in the same type of architecture-free cookie-cutter apartment complex as the rest that exist in Phoenix. At least with the other ones you just get in your car and leave.

They’re calling it the 007? Isn’t that number heavily trademarked?

I mean, I watch bus reviews from Europe and Australasia, but they’re more often than not showcases of a new product rather than an in-depth review—though they do often remark on a few nuances that make the coach better or worse than the competition.

I’ve been on a walk in Northern Sonora when it was an indicated 123 F on the car’s temp sensor (so probably around 119 IRL). It was only maybe 500 ft though and we left the car running, so exposure was limited. That said, dry heat definitely doesn’t feel as hot as it could be.

Ah interesting, I stand corrected. Didn’t realize GM did anything mechanical to the Malibu past 2018.

But better than the Kia? Not to me. They look good enough for economy cars, but are still pretty basic. Also, I hate the ‘forehead’ grille of the Civic and DLO fails on the Corolla. The Kia adopts the long, flat hood and low roofline from more traditional sport sedan aesthetics.

The new Pathfinder uses an NA VQ V6 and a ZF 9-speed. It’s not the greatest in its segment, but I bet it’ll be more reliable than any Traverse, Explorer, or Grand Cherokee, and perhaps even the Telluride and Palisade.