well there is an aftermarket and there is wishing the car had a different engine, or transmission or completely reengineered in a way that the aftermarket is not going to be able to do at any sort of reasonable cost.  If you tried to turn a civic SI into the type R using aftermarket parts it would not be as good and…

yeah people are paying 150k+ for 10 year old 911s on bring a trailer daily there is clearly a hole in the market for expensive new cars that auto manufacturers are not listening to!  

the trailblazer is a better platform but yeah. my vote was for a sportie trailblazer with the 2.5t from the acadia and about 2 inches more lift and slightly taller/wider tires. and kind of tune it for like a rally/drive dirt roads at speed but also very controlled on the street. 

i saw a guy on youtube who has a couch in the background and he calls it his “tax write-off couch” anything he wants personally he buys and then puts it in the background of a video and then he says he can write off the items as a business expense because it was in the background on the one video. No idea if that is…

I don’t think this guy could afford it. he bought it as a business expense hoping to make “content” with it and then flip it and hopefully the $$ from “content” was greater than the $$ he lost on the car depreciation. So many automotive influencers go this route and they are not concerned about what kind of risk that…

this is also trade in value ... Tesla is going to resell this at a hefty markup!  

to be fair Nasa themselves have had several very public and very catastrophic incidents of their own. But it is much easier to absorb that risk (financially) when you are taxpayer funded. When you have to answer to shareholders very public catastrophes like that has huge effects on your business and/or your…

Ok i am legit a huge tire nerd. But i will admit that Tires are are more competitive than they every have been and as long as you get a name brand tire in the category that fits your needs it is very hard to go wrong. tires have to do so many things, Steering response, dry grip, wet grip, snow traction , noise ,…

i’m torn, Props to Ford for building a nice car but I feel like they should be penalized for building the car in china and selling it in the usa. Everyone is wanting protectionist tariffs on the Chinese automakers but somehow Ford/GM gets a pass on building in China? Why? 

the fact that it was possible to install it backwards is a fuck up on GMs part.  anything that can go wrong will go wrong! 

I’ll bite. The Chevy Trailblazer needs a hot model. give it the 2.5T engine from the Traverse. half an inch more ride hight. a bit taller/ wider tires. and some better body control and a limited slip rear diff (and/ front diff maybe). It could slot into something like the range rover evoque a very sporty soft roader…

most likely they used the ford focus as the Guinea pig to see if something like this works before they implement it onto a vehicle that they actually care about like the F150, explorer. or mustang.

Problem: Owners never service a part

they tried integrating large screens in the dash for so long and that did not work either. 

VW has desperately needed a halo status symbol for a long time. They tried so many things that never worked. This has a good chance to be a success.   Also since when were VW owners ever “ordinary people” .... yeah you know the type! 

This sounds good in theory but how is this going to be enforced. who gets punished?? both parties?? imagine missing your flight because you got kicked off for consensual hugs. Who is even going to be a bastard enough to actually enforce this ... actually we have all probably met someone who dreams of having the power…

i mean .. there’s goodbye for now ... and then there’s goodbye forever ... i’m not judging anybody’s hugs I have no idea anything about their life!

yeah somehow my edit did not go through on the prius vs prime price. The fuel economy on the Prime has two numbers the xse and xse premium has 19 inch wheels give you a penalty of 4 mpg on gas and 5 miles of electric range less compared to the 33k SE trim has 52mpg on gas and 45 miles on EV.

The prius prime starts at 33k the regular prius starts at 33k its not exactly appes to apples because the prime has more power, and a few more standard features.

Phevs are just “premium” hybrids. You get more power, more battery capacity, more efficiency. The trade off is the up front cost. If you think of then as an alternative to an ev thats when things go sideways. If you never take the longer 250+miles drives then i can understand the FOMO from not buying an ev instead.