Around a decade ago, Elon Musk and Tesla had a great idea. They developed an electric car that was the opposite of what we had come to expect from one. People thought electric cars were slow so they made it fast. We thought they took forever to charge so they developed a way to charge them quickly and built the…

Yea. No low-ballers!

For sale: Used Ambulance. Light flood damage. Ran when parked.

Nope. None. Zero. I’ll pass on that nonsense. Even if I agreed with your software viewpoint, I’ll take a pass on software. I don’t need that. I’m the software. If this is our automotive future, I’ll stick to old cars. I’ll gladly be that grumpy old man that hates all of the newfangled cars before I buy one I have to…

For years I held on to a manual 1997 Nissan Maxima that I bought in ‘98 at auction to sell. I loved the car so much that I never got around to selling it and it died from catastrophic structural rust at 360,000 miles in my possession. There was a brief period where I hated it though, all because of the nastiest rattle…

Also the little blanks they put into the fog light holes look like crap. They scream “something should be here but this one is cheap”.

There are a lot of things I like about the Subaru BRZ and Toyota 86 and I once considered buying a used one. I looked around for one that I liked for a while and discovered that, not only are armrests optional on these cars, but most people who bought one new didn’t pick that option. Finding a low mileage, well cared…

In the mid-late nineties my brother worked in the detail department of a dealership. They stocked every type of pin stripe you could think of. There were hundreds of options between all of the colors, line widths and even number of lines in the strip.  The whole time he worked there, I’d pop up every week or two to…

On the Volvo question. The certified used section of Volvo’s website is very good and has regular old non certified used cars like the XC70 you’re looking for, as well. There are often more of whatever model Volvo you’re looking for listed there than on autotrader.

It wouldn’t be a new Tesla without overpromises on questionably plausible gimmicks. That’s just what they do. It’s what separates them from the real car manufacturers and gives the stans something to believe in that everyone else can plainly see is absurd.

Also, waxxing your headlights when you wax your car can help prevent them from fogging in the first place.

Some parts make a tell-tale sound as they’re failing or once they’ve failed. The hum of a wheel bearing, the power steering whine, squeaky brakes, etc. Cars making these noises may well have many parts that are even more neglected than the one making the offending sound, but it’s the offending sound that gets noticed.…

I knew a guy who put a remote start in his manual transmission pickup truck. He tried to start it one day when it was in gear and it drove itself through the front of a Burger King.

Trucks were ruined the moment people decided it was acceptable to deploy and climb a foldable staircase just to reach into the bed and it’s snowballed from there. Now every HD truck driver thinks they’re in a big rig. I’m surprised they don’t have pull chain horns.

I missed that. Glad they didn’t ruin it.

That’s neat but I’ll pass on the CVT. Hopefully the Si and Type R will come with an acceptable transmission.

I love this whole Beat saga. This was a great article. I especially liked this outlook:

Those pics made me feel like I was 10, looking at a Disney World park map and making mental notes of the areas I wanted to go first.

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How about good bumper stickers?