Some cartel down in Mexico is going to enjoy their new Ram pickups.

Also have a well informed and trusted friend look over any deal. Whether it’s cars, high end electronics, real estate, or any other big ticket item, people tend to get excited to the point where their judgement gets clouded. It’s amazing how people overlooking obvious red flags when their desperately want something.

Imagine if the manufacturers are legally required to provide a top of the line loaner until parts become available. The consumer will get the temporary vehicle flat bedded to a location they designate and their recalled car gets transported to a facility for repair. Watch how quickly the companies gets their shit…

Oh the memories of my youth growing up in New York City are coming back. Seems just yesterday the Mobro 4000 came back home.

That makes a lot of sense. I’ve seen loans and leases taken out in all sorts of situations with creative financing. On the surface, it looks comical for someone to take out a loan with your former employer but I’m sure the numbers have been worked out. Heck, even Mark Zuckerberg took out a mortgage on some property…

Rewind 100 years and we will probably find articles about those inconvenient  dad gum horseless carriages. Having to fill up at “gas stations” when that horse or mule can be fed at home. If the horse got hungry away from home, it would simply graze by the size of the road. None of that “range anxiety” trying to find a…

The hectares per tank per tank of kerosene appears to be a joke about the multipurpose nature of vehicles or the “take what we have and make something good enough” philosophy in the old Eastern bloc nations. Guessing the Mukha was built some place like, “The People’s #5 Collective Farm Tractor and Howitzer Barrel…

I knew a girl that had a Saturn where the engine failed at around 55,000 miles. She was really mad the car died 45,000 miles before it’s oil change.

In your defense, would it have killed the groundskeeper to hang some colored flags or even a few strips of florescent colored tape on that cable? Hate to have to weld on a WWII jeep wire cutter to the front of a Panamera.

Blindly trusting navigation apps is stupid. I use Waze but always eyeball the route they offer before setting off. The worst is when it tries to “save” a few minutes by routing you off the beaten path. In once case, the directions wanted me to take a small side street then try and cut through six lanes of 65MPH cross…

Yep, I have seen the same around the construction zone in Palo Alto on 101. The artifacts from previous markings from three years of constant lane shifts is hard for many human drivers to figure out. Caught some interesting reactions on dashcam.

If you catch an STD from the same person each time you hooked up, wouldn’t that be a hint to take precautions?

In tech, I always say anyone that claims they have never committed a huge outage is either lying or never did anything beyond canned checklists. My auto enthusiast friends say the same, work on enough big projects and you will screw up royally at one point or another. Slap yourself on the forehead, learn from the…

Here is how it usually goes, “I want basic transportation....... as long as it has a peppy engine, bluetooth connectivity, a nice sound system, power everything, remote start, an interior that is not acres of cheap plastic, tinted windows, room to carry all my stuff, etc etc etc...”

My wife and I did the same, we were going to pay cash for a used vehicle but we did the math and ended up going new. We were offered 0% for 60 months as well as other incentives and went with that option. After making the down payment, we put the remainder into a stock fund. Once all costs were factored in, we are…

So one of the claims is the sweeper was visible for 20 seconds and the vehicle took no action to avoid it. If only there was a way the car could have been manually manipulated to change course away from a stationary object by some sentient being responsible for operating the vehicle.

No shit. Had a 80 Series Toyota Land Cruiser. Swapping out a front turn signal bulb took about 1 minute from the time I opened the package to when I threw away the burned out bulb.

My wife gave up an X5 M for a Honda Odyssey when the 2nd kid was due. She didn’t speak to me for a week and was likely contemplating divorce. Modding her van may win me a few brownie points from the automotive side of our relationship.

When I was consulting in the automotive industry, I met a salesman that would routinely move 75+ cars per month. Did over 120 in one month during the 2009 cash for clunkers rebate period. He was genuinely a nice guy that did not BS people or play games. He helped his store keep sales numbers up so the General Manager…

Alright, I’ll take the clickbait. I do not have a dog in this fight but just want to get a few observations down.