People need reliable transportation to work. The idiots who buy $70,000 trucks and spend another $10,000 in wheels and lift kits aside, the only thing on the lots at most dealers are $30,000 CUVs. When it costs $4,000 to rebuild an engine, transmission, or rear end on a vehicle, most people are just going to put the…

Reverse: Hot Take. Alan Kulwicki would have been the greatest driver in NASCAR history if he hadn’t died.

Between the frame rails under the cab and bed.

They’re using the shuttered Warren Transmission plant for masks, and Kokomo to assemble the ventilators, which is pretty much what I predicted in the last thread on this issue. Makes way more sense to use those assets than tearing down a vehicle assembly plant for manufacturing small components.

I’m literally crying right now. You are the best automotive writer I’ve read since Brock Yates. Another writer who didn’t care about IMSA, gear ratios, or other nonsense.

Honestly, if they included $300 billion to the Big Three to ditch ICE for all but medium and heavy duty vehicles in the stimulus, it’d cover the development and retooling costs and we’d have 10 million EVs on the road in the US in three years.

Auto manufacturers have built medical equipment in the past. Some of the first heart-lung machines and iron lungs were produced by auto manufacturers and their subsidiaries. It’s been so long since we’ve outsourced all of it that it’ll take a minute to get back up to speed.

A few things to consider:

They should have called it the Bronco II.

AUTOnomy was a hydrogen fuel cell project, NOT a BEV. GM gave up on BEVs after the EV1 was cancelled, recalled, and crushed. AUTOnomy was introduced after that. GM’s fuel cell tech was also basically abandoned after the bankruptcy because the Obama Administration’s car czar refused to allow them to continue…

That’s either single or dual channel, depending on the manufacturer. Had a ‘91 S-10 with ABS on the rear axle and a ‘92 Corsica with 4 wheel/channel ABS. Four channel systems adjust the proportioning according to the speed detected for each wheel. Pulling the handbrake for either system (not easily done with the…

This entire article and linked video is terrible advice. The editors should remove it out of concern for public safety. ABS braking systems are specifically designed to reduce stopping length in slippery conditions and the proportioning is actively changed when you are using a four-channel system designed anytime in…

Here’s the thing: the dealers don’t care and neither do the banks. Sure, a bank repo’d the car, tanked the customer’s credit, and “lost” $8,000 on the vehicle. They didn’t lose anything. They received most of the interest on the loan when the vehicle was being paid on, especially if it was in the first few years of…

Everything about this article is the correct take. The sedans and coupes are not profitable. Nobody is cross-shopping the Euro and Asian brands with Cadillac and Lincoln. The only competition for the Escalade and XT6/XT4 comes from Lincoln and maybe Lexus. Nobody is buying their cars, and when they did, it was mostly…

Everyone complaining about GM cancelling a “premium” product that they finally got around to building doesn’t get it. Blackwing was a halo project designed specifically for a halo car that nobody bought. The product was too expensive for the market and GM management is finally at the point where they know that nobody…

FYI, the VC-25A is nowhere near 40 years old. SAM 28000 was first used to transport George H.W. Bush in 1990. It never transported Reagan while he was President. The interior of the aircraft was designed by Nancy Reagan and the color scheme of the furnishings is completely different from the Kennedy-era aircraft, yet…

I’m totally willing to concede that point, but I looked it up on the forums too, and this JT had a build date of October 2019 and 4800 miles on the odo. Apparently others are experiencing the issue with vehicles they’ve purchased with little to no support from FCA. From what I’ve gathered, the JK really didn’t have…

I just rented one for over a week in Florida last week. It was a free upgrade to the economy rental I booked and I jumped at the chance to take it when the rental agent offered it. I have owned an extended cab Colorado and Sonoma in the past and was expecting a similar experience.

Georgia requires doc fees to be included in the price of the vehicle. If it’s not on the Monroney sticker and they add it after you’ve agreed to a price, it’s illegal.

Volt was dead on arrival. It was the poster child for the bailout and nobody would touch it. Honestly, I think the Bolt should have been a Saturn too.