Mazda really needs to bring back the CX-7. My wife and I bought one new in 2011. We liked that it was close to the size of the Nissan Murano and Ford Edge, but priced like the Rogue/Escape, and a lot better looking and driving than those as well.

Does MK8 have much content if you don’t buy DLC? I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as MK Wii.  I felt like it had half as many tracks, and the battle mode on race tracks sucked.  After I won all the cups on each difficulty, I pretty much stopped playing it.  It didn’t have the replayability that MK Wii did.

Depreciation: almost $10/mile so far.

Going through the questions, it lo0ks like I would have gotten a 31/66 = 47%, so I guess your headline is right.

I’m pretty sure the 2000-2005 Cadillac Deville was the first production car with LED tail lights. Or at least the first with LED brake lights.  Cars in the 90s had LED CHMSL on cars with spoilers.

Are you amazed that not everyone has watched a 45 year old movie? Or doesn’t know it intimately enough to identify a minor character by sight? I’m almost 40 and have only ever seen the movie once, maybe 25 years ago. The only thing I could remember about the movie is the “We’re gonna need a bigger boat”, and the music.

Agreed. The MP4 and P1 are the only good looking modern Mclarens to my eyes. The others tend to have interesting features, but are otherwise awkward looking.

That was my first thought too.  It’s a nice rendering, but completely changes the feel of the car.  I don’t think the Civic needs nearly that much change.  Just get rid of the fake vents in the bumper and clean up the area where the license plate sits and I think it would be fine.

Let’s see if this lasts only 14 days.  I suspect that at the end of March, we will have a ton more cases and more deaths and everyone will be extending it further.

My wife is a virologist.  Last night she was reading up on coronavirus (she studies other viruses).  Current estimates are that 40-70% of US population will contract coronavirus, and 1-2 million will die as a result.  Pretty big deal.

I was in Spain earlier this year and the Nissan EV Vans were all over the place doing commercial work. This recipe should be successful in Europe. More-spread-out US will probably need a bit more range than in Europe.

Agreed. Buy a used Mustang GT or 911 or something for now. Enjoy the freedom of not worrying about kids. Drive the sports car while you can, worry about practicality when you actually need it.

I’ve never had knobs or buttons just stop working on me.

You won’t mess it up too badly. Just buy a Miata and start practicing. The hardest part about learning a manual is getting a feel for the clutch engagement point when starting from a stop, so you may release it a bit too quickly for comfort (the car will lurch a bit), but you won’t be doing any damage. Just don’t sit…

That is true for passenger cars, where designers have had to raise hoods a few inches on some models to leave clear space between the hood skin and hard points in the engine bay. But that explanation doesn’t work for trucks where they already had more than enough room between the hood and the top of the engine. My ‘97…

It isn’t crash ratings that have made trucks so tall, in fact being so tall worsens their performance because it increases their rollover chance. It is 100% a pissing contest between the automakers (and consumers) to out macho each other, and trucks are just getting harder and harder to actually use and have become…

I was less concerned with energy payback times and more concerned with the sheer amount of silica, copper, etc it would take to produce enough panels to power a large portion of the electrical grid in the US or to produce enough panels to slap on everyone’s homes to power them individually.

My wife and I just had a 9-day vacation in Spain. We both packed just a carry-on roller, which I was very grateful for when we missed the bag check deadline for 1 of our flights. My wife knows how to pack light.

If they put it on other brands, then they have even less they can use to differentiate Cadillac and give a reason for people to spend more money on a Cadillac than a Chevy.

The statement makes perfect sense. I don’t know what Kristen is going on about. They have product cycles and their various models are in various stages of their product cycles. It costs engineering time and money to add features like this to a vehicle, and if they do it late in a vehicle’s product cycle, they won’t…