There’s always someone that chimes in with their SAAB story...

This. Exactly this. Platform/component sharing both in house and inter corporate has a huge risk when it comes to spreading a defect around. Your Takata example is right on.

This is pretty smart. If Ford and GM are prepared to pivot into armament manufacturing like they did during WW2, then a civil war should be great for the bottom line.

Experimentation is a form of education.

I miss the stench of the gooey black sealant leaking out around the windows on a hot day. Also, the chain smoking wasn’t that bad, it covered up the smell of the exhaust and the benzine and other shit in it.

FWIW - floating roofs are the new opera windows.

1st: Toyota has masterfully delayed their rebate phase out by taking their sweet time to launch EVs and then making them so ugly the uptake will be even longer.

I’m getting so much advice from the internet, daytime talk shows and drunk barflies, I just don’t know what I should do. I guess I should just check and see what Q says.

Unfortunately too many cars seem to need an anus behind the wheel.

It looks like it was used to hold a little spittoon for the chewin’ tobacco.

So in 2038 we will get a countdown clock? Cool!

They have a website? I googled vinfast and all I found was boxed wine.

And the east coast of Canada where they refer to “tha bingo”

Those kids had it coming. The real solution is to equip people with something like vision sensors or acoustic sensors and then some sort of central processing unit to use the incoming data to make decisions to protect themselves.

Now you worry about metal?

I hear the “I’m looking for a cheap car. I don’t care what it is as long as it has AWD. I HAVE TO HAVE AWD” line so much that this is my only recommendation these days.

My former BIL was mechanically useless. He described to me how during a broke ass point in his life he changed some valve springs on a VTEC head. He was proud to have 3 cylinders running right. If he could do it...

This is a perfect car to learn maintenance discipline. After a few breakdowns in shit weather, you will be meticulous before heading out.

Even though what was called American iron became American plastic, the upside is there are 53 badge engineered variants of everything. Parts and assemblies are like a virus, they will be hard to avoid. I know someone who built a FrankenBuickPontiacOlds with his nephew several years back with components that had…

But if you are going to buy a old BMW go big or go home broke