Dealer added options are the issue in my area. We have 6 Chevy dealers within a 30 minute drive of my house and each of them has managed to put $10k worth of modifications into nearly every Colorado on the lot. My father in law wants a Duramax LT because he’s got an 80 mile highway commute each day, but every single…

How does the interior and driving compare to the lower trim XC90s. My inlaws want a 3 row, and the wife is trying to convince them to get a XC90. I’m convinced a upper trim level Subbie would be luxurious enough for her parents, so I’m curious if they’ve managed to keep up the nice leather and wood into a larger model…

4 years ago I made a trip from coastal VA up the Eastern Shore to Rehoboth Beach, DE. We drive my 2013 FR-S which got about 30 MPG over the 400ish round trip using premium. This weekend we took the same trip in my wife’s 2017 Civic hatch and we averaged 46 MPG on regular. Can we afford a truck/SUV/CUV, sure? But the…

I moved from college every year with my 2008 Cobalt coupe. Somehow I fit a 32" CRT TV into the back seat and have plenty of room to stretch my legs. The car was surprising spacious, I’m just over 6 ft and could get 3 people in the rear bench easily while being comfortable driving. When I moved to a 2013 FR-S I barely…

I guess the guy down the street should have waited a few more months. He bought a yellow Type R even though he wanted blue. Said guy promptly spent even more money to wrap his yellow Type R with blue vinyl over the course of 2 weeks. I’m sure he’s easily spent close to $45k just for wanting to have it first.

Always put the parking brake on. My grandfather was taught that when he learned to drive in the 40's and passed that info down to my mom. My mom passed that down to me, and I used my parking brake since my car was a manual. My mom was driving an 04 Suburban Z71 at the time which my dad lifted just high enough to fit…

As a Ford stockholder, I’m not sure how I feel. On one hand, they’re responding to the market, however short sighted that is, so the dividends checks are nice when the stock goes up. On the other hand, the reason I see this as a poor move is due to the price increases. Ford just lost a large amount of future owners…

You can see the seam at the center of the steering wheel where driver airbag deployed. If any other went off it would be easily visible since trim panels and headliners would be damaged or missing. Total CP, especially if the seller is trying to not disclose that.

Crack pipe, the driver airbag was deployed. They stuffed it back into the steering wheel and maybe glued the cover back. You can see the seem right down the middle. Combine that with frame twist and a need for at least the lower portion of the radiator support, this thing just needs to be parted out.

My first car was an 89 Si 4WS, and to this day I kick myself for letting it go to buy a new 08 Cobalt instead... I love the 5th gen Prelude because it looks like the perfect “modern” version of my car. I keep telling my wife if an 89-91 or 99-01 Prelude becomes available at Japanese Classics then there will be one in…

I can see a fully optioned one being $60k, but not starting there. Unless the Z4 is also getting a major price bump (the 2016 35i started at $57k) I think it would be a hard sell for the average buyer who can actually afford it. At $60k+ most buyers will expect a Lexus badge on the front end, or will be looking at the…

Yes, but the Lexus LX outsold it 2:1 last year. Fans of a badge or nameplate will pay the premium, but your average consumer who can afford the vehicle is looking at Lexus once the price climbs up.

I agree. I think it will most likely come in around the $40k-$50k, not to separate it from the BMW version, but to keep a Toyota badge on it. If base price is over $50k they’ll sell to diehard fans who have the money, but average buyers looking for a sporty coupe will pass it by for the Lexus RC.

I’ve got a tech as we speak, trying to overhaul a Boxster bumper for paint work. Flat rate says 3.0 hours, he’s been at it since 11am this morning...

Flat rate. Most OEMs specify how long an operation should take. Doesn’t matter if it takes longer or shorter to perform, that’s the time the tech gets per the OEM. Now the price per hour can fluctuate, but the flat rate should remain the same regardless of location.

These offset crash videos show what speed differential does. Most claims I look at involve one or more vehicles being stationary, since 75% are driveable still. The point is drivers are ignorant to how vehicles should behave in a collision and these videos are useful tools to help them understand why things did or…

People aren’t well educated on what airbags are for. Most people assume airbags should go off any time the vehicle is in motion and they get hit. People also love to say the car that rear ended them was going 35-45+ MPH when all they have is some minor deformation of the reinforcement beam. I pull up videos like this…

I love showing these videos to my customers when they claim they were going 45+ MPH during their accident, they show how much damage is really done at moderate speeds.

Agreed the dip in torque stunk, but in my real world driving of curvy mountain roads in Central Virginia I had plenty of fun sticking to 3rd and 4th gear to keep it in the sweet spot and not speed too much.

Wife has a 2017 Civic with 1.5T. Gas is high for us now at $2.35 a gallon. We live 4 miles from her main office, but she drives about 900 miles a month to visit patients at home or travel to satellite offices. She gets mileage for all those trips which pretty much offsets our fuel costs since I have a company car with…