“Aren’t all white people indoctrinated as racists in America? No, you may not be holding a tiki torch on a college campus, but you voted for Donald Trump, and excuse his racism, so...”

But ought’nt a bigger engine spend more time at lower revs, and thereby consume less fuel? “No replacement for displacement”?

So, my plan is, in 2 years, after finishing nursing school, trade in my ‘06 Forester—which is inferior to an Ioniq in just about every way—for a new one of these. Then I do travel nursing a few years to pay off student debts, driving across the country in my lil’ hybrid using as little gas as possible. After a while,…

They’d look better smaller and less angle-y.

I can’t be the only one hoping--against all likelihood--that the first dedicated N Hyundai is a revived Tiburon, using the G70's shortened RWD platform with room under the hood for a revvier version of the Tau V8.

Just a reminder that Atkinson cycle four-cylinder engines from both Toyota and Hyundai are at or slightly above 40% thermal efficiency. The cost of and complexity of these opposed-piston engines--combined with the naturally-higher emissions of a two-stroke engines--mean that they’re likely to remain extremely niche,…

Well, the point of this study would still stand even if smartphone usage were a factor as well—regardless of how likely to be hit due to distracted driving/walking, if/when you’re hit, you’re more likely to die if hit by an SUV.

“Rules are rules” is the rule for fools.

Maybe he thought she’d be better without him. Maybe he knew that, as bad as he may have felt about his life, he knew that many others had it far, far worse, and the guilt of depression and not being able to fully appreciate everything he has just made him feel worse about himself and that much less worthy of being…

Oh, I’ve considered it, but the fuel economy seems to fall short of what I’d like from a car, especially one of its size, and I cannot stand leather seats, which come standard in all of the turbo Elantra models for reasons I’m sure I don’t understand.

Honestly, this car was going to be competing with the Accord for my ‘06 Forester-replacement dollars in a few years, once nursing school is behind me, but then we hit a snag. The cylinder-deactivation system on the 2.5L doesn’t come with a manual transmission. It’s probably a silly thought, but I don’t want to be…

Responses like this always remind me of that Monty Python Yorkshiremen skit:

Still weighing the scales heavily toward replacing my ‘06 Subaru Forester post-nursing school with something with a manual. Manual, or hybrid car; can’t decide, but I have time.

One thing I’d be interested to learn more about is profitability. One of the hallmarks of luxury—not just in automobiles, but high-fashion, real estate, etc.—is that profit margins are higher specifically because people are paying more for two things, only one of which costs the producer anything real: quality and…

It’s a lot cheaper to integrate a screen with a handful of buttons than it is to individually wire a dozen or more (I count ~27 buttons in that ES300 picture). It’s also fairly cheap to replace those screens if they break, or update the entire interface, especially since more and more marques are using Apple CarPlay…

Marketing exists to either a.) sell people things they don’t need (because if they needed them, they’d be looking for them and not need to have someone tell them about it; it’s preying on induced demand and hoped-for information asymmetry) or, b.) reflect the excesses and inefficiencies of capitalist markets, which…

This is the moment I’m still waiting for from Hyundai or Kia.

I think that’s just a matter of change of relative circumstance. Say you’re a kid in the 1970's, looking at a C3, marveling at how fast it looks—and by connection, conscious or not, how fast it must be. Fast forward to 2018, and most family sedans with their up-level engines will outgun it without trying too hard. Are…

For the same reason that I paid $16 or so for a September 1997 issue of Car and Driver—reinstantiation of idealized memories. It was the first car magazine I (at the time 8 years old) ever received, and I loved it. I still remember laying on my bedroom floor one evening, reading it to/with my dad, who mostly doesn’t…

Thing is, any AMG Merc isn’t really a sleeper. That’s what the old 600-series cars were for. At least for the Amerian market, they stopped making an S600 with the 2018 refresh, and the SL and big coupe (S Class coupe nee CL) lost their 600's with the most recent redesigns.

I will forever lust after the 2006-2011…