I find it hard to believe that anyone that defends the Volt has actually sat in one. It's the least comfortable 4-door car I've ridden in. It doesn't present the range anxiety of a full electric, but it isn't something I'd want to take on a road trip anyway.
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Just imagine if there was a development of the 914 or 924/928 that wasn't held back by the non-enthusiasts that don't understand the basic principles of engineering.
Get rid of 600 lbs of electrical equipment, replace the heat pump with a Honda K-series and 6-speed, and you would really have something!
Back in the '90s, if you wanted an interesting Japanese car, you were probably directed towards a Mitsubishi showroom. These days, if you want a new car you're generally going everywhere except a Mitsubishi dealership.
Now, let me be absolutely clear — there is nothing to actually like here. Sure, the 911 has some sort of body kit to emulate the 'slantnose' body style available in very limited quantities starting in 1981, it has new tires, and is generally in reasonable shape. But around back the legendary air-cooled flat-6 has been…
Is there a reason why the workforce is suspected? I went through a number of bomb threats following 9-11 when I worked at Bear Stearns. We were evacuated and mostly left to determine for ourselves whether we wanted to wait it out or get on with our lives. I imagine the security at a modern auto plant is similar to…
The European Civic is heavier than our sedan, probably to compensate for the reduced rigidity of a hatch compared to an equally built sedan. It also has a twist-beam rear suspension compared to our Civic's multi-link IRS. Our Si has a helical LSD while their Type-R makes do with bigger tires. I'm not sure anybody that…
Not a problem for the Jurassic Park Explorers. They were self-driving electric trams, which was the reason the four twits got stranded by the t-rex habitat when the power went down.
Did Obama do something positive while I was taking a leak? I was gone only two minutes, and I missed a first for his regime!
This reads like a parody of media bias.
The VW Touareg held(holds?) the title as the worst car sold in the US for a while, and still appears on any credible list of worst used cars. They're made in Bratislava, Slovakia, but "German" VWs are all a mix of parts sourced from Eastern Europe and China, so I wouldn't expect too much. Agreed that VW didn't do a…
It's probably not a coincidence that they didn't have to do this when Jeeps weren't based on Eurotrash econoboxes.
They've been losing too many sales to Ford and want to remind their former low-quality-or-no-quality buyers that they are still serious about building cars on the incendiary edge of shoddy engineering. They won't let the latest Fire Escape's record of 7 recalls for fire hazards stand without a fight!
I just read the story again to see if your position was possible. I don't see it, don't really see how anyone could interpret it that way. It's like watching someone try to put a positive spin on Hillary's time as Secretary of State.
Good point. That ticket is $40 or $60 in my neighborhood, depending on what I don't know. They don't tow for it though. OTOH, a friend in the military had the city show up the day after he left town for a week and a half and post that they were slurry-sealing his block in 48 hours. They towed his car and it cost him…
A tow truck ride for parking enforcement starts around $400 in San Diego, and that is if you retrieve your car same day and they don't come up with a reason to hit you with additional fees.
Lesson learned: Get more interesting cars, Brooklyn.
Travis is up for the Will Buxton award for journalistic incredibility. See, it works there because neither of them are credible in their shameless boosterism of motorsport as totalitarian propaganda.
This word incredible, I don't think it means what you think it means.