It’s not... unless you’re a pearl-clutching pansy or a state trooper. Modern vehicles can safely travel 100+ on modern interstate highways and the law should reflect that. Speed limits have nothing to do with safety or speed and everything to do with that $.

Id heard it was supposed to be better at that than steam.

No

Not to mention the batteries

The owner removed the timing belt covers. They normally wouldn’t be close. I had a 91 Spirit R/T. Great, great car.

Solid axles can have open diffs. The advantage is that open-diff beam axles usually keep both wheels on the ground (traction), wheras open-diff IFS often will hike a leg killing traction to both driven wheels (no traction). Solid axles are better for serious off-roading. Period. It is a thing, because it is a thing.

ZF, not FCA, mandates quirky e-shifters for its trans. BMW, RR, etc also have weird shifters. The rotary shifter is actually not bad and works fine after a couple of days to get used to its placement and ergonomics.

This is such a useless comment. Are you really that judgemental, shallow, and vain?

The Mazda 5 isn’t sold in the US any longer and is therefore not comparable.

How does driving a wholly practical vehicle mean you don’t have a life? Are you really that judgemental, shallow, and vain?

Marchionne said he didn’t want people to buy the 500e because FCA lost $14k on every one they were forced to sell.

The seat was in the stowed position for a long time and the leather hadn’t plumped out yet. No manufacturer has leather that won’t do the same. Please stahp the FCA snark.

There have been plenty of complaints about the ZF9 in the Honda/Acuras and the Range Rovers.

They were paying attention which is why they noticed it. If you’re looking to cry about something related, cry about Harry Reid killing the Yucca Mountain storage site. Myopic enviromentalists and Reid are the reason this waste has continued to stay topside.

It doesn’t.

Is this a serious question? The more wheels you have touching the ground the more traction you have, not to mention you lose complete traction in an open diff situation any time an IFS setup hikes it’s wheels up. Solid axle is far superior off-road. Period.

Good call, the Genesis’ are pretty good. I’ve driven a 2015 5.0 V8 (420 hp) extensively and it is a great car for the money. Easily hit 140 on 130 outside Austin in it.

No. Not even close. The Intrepid was a good car, but was a longitudinal mount LH front wheel drive chassis that has nothing whatsoever to do with the LX rear wheel drive V8s. As I suspected, you don’t know what you’re talking about and just spammed snark.

You’re a BMW guy... you are by definition a brand-whore. I’m joking. The post above was asking about the LX cars, which are actually very reliable and well assembled in their Canadian factories. Great values really. Have you driven one?