I mean, a guy I know and thirteen of his fellow madmen just rode cross-country - like, San Francisco to Jersey City - on Honda Groms, so 18 HP seems pretty stout.

The most damning thing I can say about The Grand Tour these days is that I’ve enjoyed the most recent cast on BBC Top Gear more than TGT.

Its really good - unlike Top Gear/Grand Tour where it is all a joke, he makes a decent go of trying to make the farm work.

The best parts of the old Top Gear were light-years ahead of the best of the Grand Tour. Sure, there was the celeb interviews, etc, but go back and watch the specials and you’ll see that they were just *magical*. Botswana. US South. Vietnam. Patagonia. The North Pole.

If you want a good Clarkson fix right now, I highly recommend Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon. The premise is him trying to farm the 1,000 acres he bought in the mid 2000s, and which until 2019 a real farmer farmed for him. It’s Clarkson at his self-deprecating best, with much of the obnoxiousness that came through in later…

They are absolutely worth something, because Volvo wagons have maintained their desirability - amongst various groups.

Where I live these are starting to gain a hipster tax and are also pretty rare. 

wE neEd dEaleRShiPs bEcauSe tHeY aDd vAlUe tO tHe CaR bUyiNg pRocESs 

It’s a port city on the Adriatic. Like it’s neighbors, it has probably officially changed hands 100 times in the past 3,000 years. Many of those times, the people living there didn’t notice the difference.

My perception has been the opposite.  I’ve seen a few out in the wild now, and I think it looks a lot better in person than in the pictures.  

pretty much making it a quintasential VW.

This looks like every other RV out there that clogs our roads. About average sized. It’s below 3.5 tonnes, so you don’t need a special trucker driving license to drive one.

This aspect of consumer rights in the USA really baffles me. Why is the price tag on a car (or a snack or an insurance policy or whatever) not the same as what the customer actually has to pay? Price opacity is bad for consumers, bad for the better businesses, and only provides an advantage for the bad businesses.

That’s fair enough, Shania Twain, but for the rest of us: 1.3 million miles on a motor/truck is impressive as all hell, regardless of timeframe. To put it in perspective, if there was a road that circled the earth, he could’ve done so a little over 52 times already, and the vehicle is still functional.

What I find surprisingly unimpressive is how many repairs this is required. those million mile tundras had almost no repairs. This truck has been a maintenance nightmare. A turbo every 200,000 mi? That's not a reliability rating to be proud of. 

But at least they’re not on fire, so better than the LLV.

The thing is that they’ve been supplementing the LLV’s with off-the-shelf vehicles for years - Windstars, Caravan/Ram CV’s, Ram Promasters, and the Mercedes Metris with the missing grill ornament that Torch was fascinated by.

I’m really curious to see how much these cost per unit compared to those.  I get that having…

Does it not seem pointless to spend hundreds of billions of dollars developing an entirely unique vehicle to just...deliver mail? Would it not make way sense to just tell Ford to import RHD cutaway Transit’s and put a big ass box on the back? I know the answer is so the US government can continue to subsidise the…

The whole manifesto of Tesla from the start was to show the world that EV’s were viable.

Luxury is more than just the quality of the dashboard’s material. When it comes to a comparison sheet between two cars it lists specs and features.