THANK YOU!  The historian in me about coughed up my chocolate donuts when I read the statement on Stalingrad!

“(T)he very same Kalashnikov behind the iconic AK-47 assault rifle that gave the Wehrmacht a kicking at Stalingrad...”

Yes, that’s right — the very same Kalashnikov behind the iconic AK-47 assault rifle that gave the Wehrmacht a kicking at Stalingrad

Yes, that’s right — the very same Kalashnikov behind the iconic AK-47 assault rifle that gave the Wehrmacht a kicking at Stalingrad, and became a favorite amongst insurgents and firearms enthusiasts around the world thanks to its relative simplicity.

Maybe I’ve spend too much time doing actual “off-roading”, but couldn’t you get these same results with an Accord? This looks like a bunch of people got stuck after parking in the front lawn at a baby shower.

Did Borat write the narrative and then have an American read it without any editing?!?!  First 30 seconds in I was thinking it was glorious tribute to SUV.

The channel is from Kazakhstan so my bet is car manufacturers don’t give them free cars to play with like they do for US based review outlets. So they just got a number SUVs from their family, friends and maybe even viewers and tested them to see how they’d do.

Honda’s computer controlled center diff system sucks all the ass. It’s like it shakes a magic 8 ball to determine how much rear torque to give you. “ask again later.”

AWS=All Wheel Slip

Most of them did pretty poorly with tons of wheel slip when expected. The best was probably the Kia, but not by much.

The main challenge these EVs are facing in the US, and in places like the UK, is that their parent brands are not licensing access/compatibility to Tesla charger’s network and are instead building their own, which will take many years to reach the same density of charging stations as Tesla’s. The EQS’s 478 miles of…

As noted in the article, this range is using WLTP estimation for range, which is notorious for being wildly optimistic. The EPA range isn’t perfect either, but it’s generally considered to be far more accurate. Let’s see what this thing gets in an EPA test (hint, probably much closer to 400 miles EPA). Also, do they…

If this is the production version under a wrap, count me out.

In 1964 I bought a 1960 Bugeye Sprite. In 1968, I bought a 1968 Ford Cortina GT, which I sold in 3 1/2 years because I moved to New Orleans and it did not have air conditioning.

C’mon, everybody knows your dad got you that job. No one making over $200K actually sacrificed and worked extremely hard to get to the higher end of the income distribution. /S

I can’t stand this obsession with thinking people that make more money aren’t doing their fair share. In Canada, as a doctor I’m considered well off, but I’m the only person I know that pays 10% tax to the hospital, then another 50% on everything from 120-216k and 54% above 216k and then 15% sales tax on whatever’s…

I’m an “only buy used” person. My wife and I have a small collection of Craiglist-caliber cars that we’ve fixed up into “slightly better than Craigslist caliber” cars. Our 2 daily drivers have a combined 340,000 miles.  I tell you this for context.

One should not underestimate the value of personal experience. I bought my first car in 1965 and my first new car in 1968 and have bought a variety of new and used vehicles since then. I have had my best experiences buying cars new and keeping them for a long time, 10+ years. I am old enough, 74, that I will likely…

I consider myself a disillusioned libertarian.

The fact that Ford is unwilling to sell vehicles without proper roofs is another reason they're going to fall behind Tesla.