Thanks to many of the commentators, it has saved me a bunch of angry one fingered typing.

Autonomous driving driving technology now is similar to the early days of ballistic vests which were almost bulletproof. If you depend on them you die.

Owning anything German beyond the factory warranty is suicidal unless you can do normal maintenance including shocks, bushings and brakes. German automatic transmissions are a wild card. They are often difficult if not impossible for independents to repair and the cost of a factory rebuild far too quickly can be…

If someone is leasing a car they are rarely in a position to dispute what the projected value would be. I fully expect my wife’s 2011 6M Cayenne will attract a premium but that is with me selling it privately. Most folk who are getting a new car have little appetite to debate trade in values especially with a Used Car…

Why does BMW screw buyers by offering manual transmissions “at no extra charge” when in times before automatics were several thousand dollars more?  Porsche offers Tiptronic transmissions at a hefty extra charge as they should. On leased cars manuals are immediately dinged as they project that manual will be worth…

I’ve got the feeling that even when Honda’s Magicseat patent expires (soon) Toyota would be loath to use it. How else can you put a 55” TV (in the box) in the back seat? Bystanders at Costco thought I was a magician.

Go find my ‘85 CRX Si my ex sold with black and white Recaro B/W Logos, lumbar support, 15” BBS, 001R Yoko’s, adjustable Tokico shocks and Mugen exhaust.

Simca 1204’s without a/c had the spare in the engine compartment. I bought a Pinto instead, sniff.

Where is the bookmark validater? If there was an app that would validate the good ones and eliminate the rest I’d be far ahead. Why doesn’t Google keep the date saved for bookmarks? I bet most bookmarks older than 10 years have little value. Many of the bookmark managers lose their way with big collections and…

If taxed vehicles on their weight and horsepower much of this discussion would be rendered moot. As it is diving large truck can deliver tax credits. The first comment would be vehemently opposed by the big 3. Who do you think helped pass the following comment? Ignorant proposals by those who fail study the history…

I expect that anything that can be drastically improved with a software revision can be drastically diminished with a newly discovered software bug or possibly a new update might undermine the improvements this update provided. There is a good reason why NASA doesn’t put lives at risk until the hardware and software…

“The Oil Industry Is Finally Affected...” Don’t you think that is needlessly dramatic? First of all the oil industry is largely owned by the government so any effects have no impact to the public or investors. Secondly the change of sales of cars today has little impact on the sales of petrol today. Lastly, the…

Current aircraft move large chunks of weight bearing material (flaps) in complicated paths with few problems. Next time you are on a plane before landing watch the flaps extend and droop down. This movement under considerable load is no easy task. Flipping the wing tip is comparatively simple. They do have more work…

Evidently John Travolta is coming for dinner and his 727 doesn’t land on a cow pasture.

You don’t need no stinking engines. You need 6 working SHO Taurus’s. Now you have something. Hopefully this doesn’t garner any foolish questions. Hint: it had been done before and it works.

While I’m sure these guys had fun I expect that the paths they ran on were not a choice but the only way to get through. This often happens on seaside or lakeside routes where a really small 2 lane road splits into 2 one way paths outside of town only to rejoin on the other side. Just got back from Bellagio where the…

The cost to install a HUD to the manufacturer is small in relatively high volumes. The cost to the owner to replace a HUD windshield is high (2-4X of standard tinted). In western Canada replacing a windshield every winter is par for the course. For this reason HUD is most often a delete option there. Insurance…

If Trump wanted to downsize EPA emission and NTSA safety regs why not just adopt euro regs and allow transatlantic sales without penalties? The Krauts would be apoplectic as US buyers would spec more basic cars that would cost far less than current cars with multiple option packages. Just got back from Milan. You…

Fuzzy’s is popular with far more folk than the Bush’s. Walk into the store some nights and you’ll see a stack of 10 pizzas. Evidently the Secret Service agents are on a high carb diet.

The first sentence. When planes crash its more likely a pasture as the pilot is frantically trying to find a survivable spot. Also the pilot may have minutes to make a decision between a tree or a meadow. As such the death toll is most often limited to the plane’s occupants. Cars are most often driven in a “target…