When I was in high school I had a friend with a beautiful ‘68 Camaro.  I talked him into tossing me the keys one night when he was drinking (I was not).  Apparently, he had spent the whole budget on looking cool and none on driving well.  Manual drum brakes, manual steering, not sorted out.  It did have a 350 in it,…

This one stands out because it SHOULD have been the opposite of sketch. A couple of years ago, my wife and I went to test drive a 2 year old certified Navigator at a Lincoln dealership. The truck looked great. On the test drive, the front wheel started shaking pretty bad at anything above 4o MPH, like the wheels were…

I bought my first pickup a few months ago, after considering for the better part of the last 2 decades. I’m probably never going back, but happy to switch to electric when they finally get that right. I’m kind of the opposite of the premise of the article - I regularly do a number of things that reasonably justify the…

I would guess most people who lift/level their trucks and SUVs never fix the headlights. The irony of that is that it makes it so they don’t see right either.

I’ve been irrationally attracted to Biturbos since I was a little kid, and this being a Spyder only adds to the appeal. The great condition takes it even further. But that transmission just kills it for me. I’m not a “manual or die” guy, but I feel like a 3-speed slush box would just ruin the driving experience here.

I had a C-Max for a year, and it’s a great choice here. Sits up high enough that it’s easy to get into, and has a surprising amount of cargo space. It also has decent driving dynamics - certainly better than a Prius. It has enough power to move with the extra weight of the bike and gear. The rear seat room is…

I enjoy the fun sparkle light show you get when headlights hit it at night. 

Most recently - “It is illegal for us to lease the vehicle out of state”.  No, you just don’t want to, which is fine, but just admit it. 

I actually own 2 RWD SUVs, and they do everything I need them to living in AZ. What rules this one out for me is the color (some cars look good in yellow - this is not one), the weird headliner, and the miles. No thanks. 

I will admit to having left small windshield dings untreated so they would turn into big cracks, so that I could get a new windshield because of all the pitting. 

You make several good points. Some of it depends on where you live. Where I live, parking spots are big and roads are wide, which may be part of why so many of us drive full size trucks and SUVs. Parking is only complicated at my own house, but that has more to do with having 4 vehicles that all need to be accessible.

There are tons of applications where battery power doesn’t work well, and alternative fuels would be great. Just for some examples - boats and ATVs (can’t carry extra batteries on the lake or into the woods), generators, aircraft, construction equipment too large to move to chargers regularly, etc.

My florist wife needed to move a bunch of delicate table arrangements the other day. Too tall to fit in the cargo area of her SUV, but fit just fine in the back of my crew cab with the seat folded up.  

5-10 years ago, I used to recommend these a lot when people would ask about a good cheap CUV for their kid. The combination of Honda V6 and poor resale value seemed like a winner to me. Nobody ever did it - they couldn’t get past the look.

On my current truck, the automatic emergency braking in reverse. It’s way too sensitive, and the implementation is violent. I have a rather tight spot to back into in my driveway and it bites me way too often. Still, I don’t want to turn it off in case it actually saves my butt sometime.

On my BMWs and Mini, you can close everything by holding down the lock button on the fob after you get out.  It’s pretty great.  Wish all my cars would do that.

On BMWs at least, you can turn off the mirror dip just by moving the mirror switch to the center or left.  That makes it useful.  My Ram makes you turn it on and off in the settings, which is too many steps to do for the few times I need it.

I hated this so much on my F30 BMW that I just automatically pushed the button every time I started the car.  It took a while in my next car before I stopped trying to push it.

This is the weirdest thing to be bugged by. Solves many problems. For me, the biggest is that the only thing I need to have in my pocket is the fob for the car I’m driving, and it doesn’t have a blade to stab me in the thigh. Don’t have to dig for it either. Combined with a keypad on my house, it’s significantly cut…

These could also be fixed by better implementation. I’ve owned 7 cars with push button start, and have never had any of these problems.