The crazy thing is, the primary competitor to these things were Buick Regal T-types and Grand Nationals. The Buicks are worth hella money because they were legitimately fast then and now, but nobody wants a T-bird with a Pinto engine.

That’s pretty much “higher” education in a nutshell. I wouldn’t say any of my professors suffered from an overabundance of common sense.

Neutral: If he’s going to shut down oil wells and coal mines and kill the energy companies that own them, at least put the sites on the Superfund list so the government will pay to clean them up. Right now remediation for abandoned mines and wells must be paid for by the owners, but if the owners no longer exist, you…

Oh honey. The United States Congress passed and Richard Nixon himself signed into law a mandatory seatbelt ignition interlock for all new cars manufactured after 1973. Public outcry was so swift that Congress repealed the law the next year. Americans take great offense to *any* mandate that will help protect their…

It’s funny, I subscribed to PS/PM when I was a kid and I get the exact same feeling reading David Tracy articles as I did back then. Only Popular Science could make a 12 year old understand the physics behind buckminsterfullerene and graphene.

Very few indeed. Probably the only other auto executive that has comparable (and mostly likely greater) product knowledge is Mary Barra. She worked on the line while she was an engineering student at GMI/Kettering and was later in charge of global production engineering.

So Pizza Hut decided to get in on the Little Caesar’s flava? Righteo!

Probably Cummins, Navistar, or Caterpillar. OTR and medium-duty trucks and tractors will probably still use them long after passenger cars have converted to EV. Ford and GM will likely keep producing V8s as crate engines for repairs and hobbyists until it becomes uneconomical to support those needs. I’m surprised…

I mean, if it was running and the 4wd worked, maybe, but it won’t even start. Instant ND over $2500 for a no-start.

Hot take: all British cars, except vintage Jags, are ugly.

The only thing I can think of that would be more boring is a show about an appliance manufacturer. Maybe it’ll be better than all the stupid game shows they’re running right now.

We have those. They’re called rivers.

Jesse was supposed to drive an E36 BMW M3 or an Audi A4 S4 because he was a bit of a techie. But again, the cars that showed up to casting didn’t really fit, so he ended up in the Volkswagen Jetta.

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“Or at least until gas prices soar and Americans want good, small, fuel-efficient cars again.”

The U.S. dealers don’t want these cars. There is no money in servicing them and customers don’t want a tiny Mercedes. GM is finding that out the hard way with Cadillac’s EV push, and they have way more Cadillac dealers than M-B has in the U.S. Audi managed to right-size their electric option, but they still don’t sell…

So true. My Dad had melanoma that metastasized to a lymph node in his throat and it grew to the size of a golf ball, but hadn’t gone anywhere else. Surgery to remove the node/tumor, 6 weeks of radiation, and a year of immunotherapy and he’s cancer-free. It was a horrible experience, for sure, but until Dustin releases…

Unless you’re paying cash, chances are the banks will cut you off first. The admin fees aren’t going to be cheap either.

Just because the Buyer didn’t hear/feel the busted CVT during appraisal doesn’t mean that the service department wouldn’t have found it during CQI. Unless you found the vehicle on their website later, you can probably assume that a $10k A4 went to the auction lane. I’ve purchased three vehicles from Carmax and sold…

Carmax just buys it back. I’m sure the admin fee is not refundable.