Owners and even service “techs”. Consider the case of the Ford Taurus and its infamous AXOD/AXOD-E/AX4S transmission. After a couple of major design flaws were eliminated, they actually had reasonable reliability to a point, but there were still a high number of failures that occurred shortly after an oil change. The…

The LS was never based on the Avalon chassis. The Avalon is a FWD car, and the LS was RWD or AWD. They were originally based on the Toyota Celsior and then the Century. The current model is based on the TNGA-L platform which underpins the LC, Crown, and Mirai.

Your life was simple and carefree in the ‘90s because you were a baby. 

The recommended services for the X5 we have in the shop at 40K miles:

So you can get a car for Civic money, but have BMW maintenance costs, pass lol.

Unclear why an unidentified drone cannot be shot down when flying in restricted airspace over a military installation despite the “law”.

Yes, I was really hoping this entire article would be variations on “buy a goddamn minivan.”  Alas.

fawning unhinged lunatic, in this pic. looks like wormtongue ala lord of the rings.

Another unusably fast, unobtainably expensive supercar that will almost exclusively be purchased by middle eastern oil barons and stored indefinitely with delivery miles in a sealed warehouse. The writeup/article is good and I don’t want to discount that, but man it is hard to care about new releases like this.

I feel increasingly justified in calling Tesla’s Level 2 ADAS Full Self Crashing.  smh

A typical household might have been paying the phone company $50-100/mo plus more for additional lines and fees for more services (call waiting - extra, and dont get me started on per minute long distance charges).

While the smart phone and internet obviously weren’t available for purchase, do you have any actual data that people weren’t making tons of frivolous purchases 30 years ago? They still had store catalogues getting mailed out, door to door salesmen, and the home shopping network to buy random stuff from. McDonalds &…

AI wrote the article? No one with a brain did a sanity check on the numbers? There’s a KBB article that makes the same mistake, quoting current used car values as original MSRP.

Maybe there should have been a 1 in front of it? I think people would remember a 1992 F-Series truck being less than a 1986 Yugo GV.

Non-sporting convertibles are nothing new. These cars are just the modern version of this:

Nissan’s dealers are killing the company. I had a 2004 Xterra which was a great, bare-bones vehicle. Owned some other cars in between, and in 2018 put Nissan on the list of cars to look at with my wife. The dealers we visited were so smarmy that my wife was categorically turned off by them. (I didn’t love the vehicle o…

I was sitting here trying to be an altruist and thinking “none - there should be a vehicle for everyone and choice is good” but you talked me out of it. Fuck these things indeed.

Around here Prius’ are driven just like every other car on the road.  not sure where you’re getting your experience from - but it’s completely at odds with what I’ve seen.

The Dodge Avenger is such a hatefully awful car, representing the worst parts of “Chrysler” and every name the company has been under during my lifetime, which is 5 if my count is correct.

PT Cruiser. It was emblematic of the design disaster that was the automotive industry’s “retro” phase. Inside it was a wasteland of garbage materials and the worst rear seats I’ve ever had the displeasure of sitting on.