Second best sounding V8 I’ve ever heard in a car that I’ve personally either driven or been a passenger in...first is the RS4’s 4.2 FSI.

Just be glad you’re not the guy that was on Street Outlaws with the knickname/alias BBC (as in Big Block Chevy) Mike. Can you imagine not knowing any better and searching for him without Safe Search fully engaged?!

Like pizza, it would have to be a pretty terrible manual for me not to like it and want an automatic.

You’re missing the point — if we were to use modern tech to essentially re-build a car with Model T specs (20 HP, 1200lbs, zero emissions or safety restrictions, etc) , it could hit 80-100 MPG EASY. Bernie’s fundamental point is that automobile progress has stagnated, and that’s provably absurd.

I would still vote for him over a criminal.

If I had it to do over though I’d buy an automatic. something else.

You speak blasphemy. And a WRX with anything other than a manual is an unforgivable sin. Begone you evilsayer of things.

Actually Bernies comment, minus the “first combustion engine” is accurate. 21mpg in 1908, 21 mpg in 2015. He didnt say cars hadn’t improved, he said gas milage hadn’t improved for most cars. Ive said the same thing many times before in talking to other car guys and they all agreed the numbers havent changed in 100…

I ended up deleting the line in my original post, but I was going to say, “The Prius is a sportscar. People just don’t realize that racing isn’t the only motorsport.” But I thought that might be a little too inflammatory. I think you would understand what I mean though...just like you’d put up with stiffer springs in…

Is that a hole being blasted to mine the materials for your second vehicle?

Right, shitting on the earth by investing the resources to manufacture and maintain a single vehicle rather than several. Makes sense.

Finally, a truck that highschool football coaches can use to compensate!
This is a truck that will NEVER see work.

That really doesn’t seem like enough of a price difference to sway the diesel-truck buying market. Only $3k to get a “proper” 3/4 ton ‘Murican truck with another 100 lb-ft of torque? Unless you just hate Dodge and need a Cummins, I can’t see many not spending the extra money and skipping the Nissan.

I’d go Cummins Ram 2500, because rebates. I just sold a Laramie 3500 Crew Cab 4x4 8’ bed for $53k (sticker at $63.5). A midrange 2500 can be had in the low 40s pretty easily.

True, discovered that one day looking for something Phineas and Ferb related (seriously, WTF people?!) I have a friend who just bought the model kit of the Kenworth from the old tv show “BJ and the Bear”..................that is one model I wouldn‘t want to search the internets looking for referenece pics of!

Idiots. You take any car as a gift. If you don’t want it you take it to CarMax for straight cash, homey and then buy a bunch of blow.

I look forward to when the Jalop hivemind will come to accept the Prius. It may not be what you want, but it does what it was designed to do pretty well. Just like our vaunted Miata - it does well what it sets out to do, but still isn’t the car for everyone.

You failed miserably! OTOH no one will want to steal it because of the “perceived manual” effect on car thieves.

Editors get in the way of posting content RIGHT THE FUCK NOW! They need all of the clicks possible and immediately.

Wrong. I’d love a Murano Crosscabriolet for free. I’d daily the shit out of it, drive it to work with the top down in the summer, throw snow tires on it and blow through the 14 inch tall ice berms the municipal plows leave at the end of my driveway in winter, and sell my Mustang for a C7 Z51 for the sunny days.