Bumper sensors are a pain.  The last time it rained and I hit a low spot with lots of water and it splashed up on to the bumper, the car was like OMG!!  STOP your going to crash!!, Alarms Red lights it was like RED alert on the freakin Enterprise.

Warning: Grumpy old woman rant to follow.

I’ve been saying this ever since they put 8" nav screens in the dash, and overhead video for “the passenger...”

How about the principle of parking correctly and not getting tickets in the first place?

Agreed, the new Opel Buicks are a solid car, period. It hurts me to say it, but its true, their actually a strong contender against the Asian options. I just can’t get over the idea of owning a Buick in my 40s though, i’m too young.

Yeah, they were that fast. A stock Grand National in its day was knocking on the 12s in the quarter-mile. Put a set of cheater slicks on it, it’d be in the low 12s. And if you worked on the engine and beefed up the trans, you could easily put it in the 10s. And in any of those guises, it’d look and sound prtetty much…

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They made 18,000+ of them in 1987 alone, built right up to December of 87 in fact. Most were driven daily and put away wet, and raced a hard life. A hand full were saved, Im OK with that.

I was almost 9 years old, it was June of 1987. I stood in the showroom of Sam Dell Pontiac-Buick, my father was there to get some paperwork and items that were left behind when my out of town Grandparents traded their 79 Regal for a brand new 87 Grand Prix there a few days earlier. There was a black Grand National,…

Q: how would a Yugo lose 25% of its value?

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I had the exact same thing happen to a very nice stock, performance, summer-tire on my Mercedes. I was doing 80, I mean 55mph on our local beltway when I had a rapid deflation. I pulled over as quickly as I could slow from 8... uh, 55 and when I stopped I saw the tread had come completely off the bead and amazingly…

mileage gains on the GM mild hybrids were pretty modest 15% or so.

Oh yeah... I remember that article. I found his comment to be disingenuous and hypocritical... especially given Toyota’s work on hydrogen vehicles. FCVs “work well” for far fewer people than BEVs for infrastructure reasons alone.

I don’t have a Twitter account, but isn’t this the point of the whole thing?

This car. It’s a 2008 smart fortwo with a Toyota Paseo engine and a manual transmission stuffed into it, then a giant blower for good measure. I know the guy who built the car and he’s an insanely good craftsman. This thing looked stock, ate Mustangs, and you could hear the supercharger whine for several city blocks.

Neutral: 300 miles and the ability to fully recharge within 15 minutes.

My old man says there are only two mistakes he’s ever made twice.  1. Expecting no cars to be there. 2. Expecting traffic in front of him to keep moving..... I’ve made both mistakes once (crossing fingers and knocking on wood).

Accident is still your fault, sure, but there is a special place in hell for people who “let people go.”  When someone stops in the road to let me in I usually just wave them by unless traffic is basically stopped already. 

I’m actually going to defend you and say that the guy who gave up the right of way is at fault for your accident. Were you distracted? yeah. Would your distraction have resulted in an accident had the gentleman in front adhered to the rules of the road? Nope.