Neutral: You poor, privileged thing. You took two cruises as a child, work in an industry that requires frequent air travel, you get to drive cars that I will never even so much as have the opportunity to touch, and you feel guilty about that? Talk about First World Problems. You want to feel guilty about your…

Neutral: Every employee at GM is eligible for a 401(k) and can purchase stock in the company at a reduced price as a benefit. So when people say screw the shareholder profits, they are really screwing themselves.

Regarding the CarMax warranty, it’s a named-exclusion policy with no limit. Meaning that unless the document states the issue is not covered, it is covered with no dollar limit. Many used car dealers and some new car dealers, and many online warranty companies, are selling named-inclusion policies that have a dollar…

CP. A Grand National had to die to create this abomination. If was $35,000 for a real Q-ship Buick, I’d say shut up and take my money. But not this. Not like this. No way son. Game over.

Neutral: Anyone who has ever worked for any auto manufacturer or had family who worked for any auto manufacturer knows exactly what “unallocated” means. It does not mean you are shut down. Shut down involves disposing of the facility and fixtures, and personnel. Unallocated means that the plant does not have a product…

Only downside is that there is no one to complain to if something goes wrong a week after you received the car. One of my co-workers ordered a used Nissan Rogue through Carvana. It’s a great car, but eight days after receiving the car, a blister appeared on one of the “new” Chinese tires they installed during their…

NP. But every time I see a car like this, Possum Kingdom starts playing in my head. The shot with the hood open just confirms the refrain, “Dooooo you want to diiee?”

4th Gear: Chances are the UAW is going to have to issue instructions for certain workers who have never been part of a strike. YOU DO NOT BLOCK SALARIED EMPLOYEES FROM ENTERING THE PARKING LOT OR THE BUILDING. Every once in a while, some newbie on the picket line who’s all juiced up on Solidarity Kool-Aid tries to…

Man, you guys are harsh. Cadillac gets hammered for “calling in” the XT6, but Land Rover gives you a modern Freelander dressed up as the “New Defender” with Discovery and 15 year old Range Rover bits and it’s “not a bad thing”.

Brass Monkey Edition?

1st gear: Ford blew all of the EV tech developed for the C-max, Fusion, and Escape and decided that EcoBoost was the future. Now the market is starting to shift to BEV and they have nothing in the pipeline except an electric F-150 and the Mach-E. If they cripple the range like VAG is doing, GM, Tesla and Rivian will…

Plumbers gotta plumb. They also sell the chassis-cab for RV upfitters. A 1-ton Express/Savana with a 6.6 Duramax was 2/3 the price of a similarly equipped Silverado or Sierra. Now they only offer them with the 6.0 Vortec or 2.8 Duramax.

So...why would I want this over a Discovery? It starts marginally less expensive than the Disco. It just looks like a modern version of the Freelander or a Land Rover version of the FJ Cruiser, without any of the coolness of the original Defender series.

Soooo...basically it’s a 1995 ZR1 for the same MSRP as a 1995 ZR1?

The G-class is basically the latest evolution of the Gelandewagen, which is basically the best 4wd vehicle ever built originally for the civilian market. It’s the only wheeled vehicle Car and Driver ever tested that could keep up with and surpass the Hummer H1. Even with the bougie wheels and interior, it’s a hard…

Engineering and scientific skills...from the dumbest “member” of the Mythbusters and the Hamster. Did you people not watch any Top Gear episodes where they had to “build” stuff? Or anything on Mythbusters that Tory worked on?

They used to do that in the US too, but then the utilities realized that they were losing money on solar customers (even thought they were essentially reselling the daytime solar generated to other customers) and instituted flat metering and connection fees to eat up whatever kWh the customer was putting back on the…

There is literally 48 square miles of unoccupied land in every single state in the lower 48, except maybe Rhode Island.

Neutral: Not really. The only thing I’ve noticed is companies like Grizzly Industrial jacking up their prices on cheap table saws and other machinery, which makes them now roughly the same price as a quality tool like Jet or Delta. Grizzly and Harbor Freight leveraged the slightly-lower-quality but…

1st gear: The XT6 cost nearly nothing for GM to develop and will print money. It’s a place-holder for Cadillac dealers and they’ll sell every one they build. The Aviator is ostentatious and gaudy without adding any accessories, much like the first-gen Navigator. Ford spent way too much money developing it and the…