1st Gear: Good for Chevy, good for small cars. Honestly, it’s a nice looking car. Glad it’s getting the appreciation it deserves.

Keep engineering cars to combat stupid, you’re just engineering the next level of stupid.

“We are also now deducting additional points from the Overall Score if a tested vehicle does not automatically return to Park or engage the parking brake when the engine is shut off, or when the driver’s door is opened with the engine running.”

The shifter in a lot of these cars are not straight forward and can be confusing. I only have limited experience based on test drives, but the Jeep and Mercedes selectors are not intuitive. Not saying they would be confusing with regular use, but they are definitely not intuitive.

Everything CR does either elicits total love or abject hate from me. This is the former. Car ergonomics should have some standardization of key features. Among those, I’d say the steering wheel and pedals are pretty well ironed out. But maybe we should add shifters and headlights to the mix. Some things should just be…

I had a co-worker who told me his mother overcooked everything when he was growing up. As a result he demanded meat be very, very rare. And not just steaks. He would slip restaurant staff twenty bucks to just warm chicken. Basically raw, room temperature chicken. Some restaurants simply refused, but an alarming number…

You can’t save every idiot by legislating away bad behavior. I don’t want policies built around the lowest common denominator.

Yeah, but from a design point of view, they help break up what would otherwise be an expanse of sheet metal, and with the exception of Porsche, I’ve yet to see a car that can effectively pull it off. Plus, it goes a long way to help normalize EV vehicles if it looks like a normal car.

They should have offered multiple trim levels (like Dodge did with the Charger), resurrected a classic (Chevelle) nameplate (like Dodge did with the Charger), and advertised the mess out of it (like Dodge did with the Charger). If they’d done that, they would have had the success Dodge had with the Charger.

You get speed along with the superior handling with xDrive (or ZF’s system which is the same as in Alfa Romeos, Maseratis, Jaguars...): M135i xDrive not just faster than Porsche 911 C4 on a wet racetrack, but _significantly_ faster!

Not quite. Bullets are expensive and you don’t get reimbursed for them. Over here we uilize a weapon far more destructive than a gun, the lawyer. The VW guy would have sued for running into his car. Good Samaritan law be damned.

In what universe MKS looks better? I don’t even know how to call that thing. What were they smoking when designing that front face? On the other hand the new Continental is what they should go with from the beginning. Giving a choice I would go with that than the Taurus SHO.

The MKS is one of the few cars that I think got WORSE looking after a mid-cycle refresh. It’s like Ford doesn’t want to sell Lincolns anymore.

Absolutely. Jeep people and 911 people are the most change-averse consumers in the automotive world. (I belong to both groups.) We’re terrified that they’ll screw up a good thing by overcooking a new model and deviating too much from its heritage. The upcoming Wrangler looks very much the same as the last one, which…

Clearly 2576 pounds of torque at 3500 rpm.

I honestly feel kinda iffy on the Mustang getting dinged for lack of “active” safety features. If you can’t be bothered to look at the road ahead of you and notice whats there or you can’t keep in your lane, you have no business driving. These features should be absolutely unnecessary in an attentively driven vehicle.

The best part is how it lights up and puts the arms down after the train has hit the truck.

One of the buttons opens up a hidden compartment under that center portion of the steering wheel, revealing 62 more buttons.