Well, they still have to replace The Beetle, The Golf, The Rabbit, Polo, Up, Arteon, Jetta, and Passat...soooo, after the Tiguan, Atlas, Touareg and Taos...12? Before the 9 Audi SUVs, 2 Porsche SUVs, Bentley Bentayga, Bugatti Spartacus, Lamborghini Urus...26?

Besides completely windless conditions high at sea being rare, the fact is that with modern GPS navigation and weather forecasting it should be easy for traveling ships to avoid the issue and optimize their routes.

So I wrote a rage post over at Oppo.

Seems a lot of people like to compare life 20-30 years ago to today’s standards. Cars, jobs, politics, and other relationships. Sometimes this doesn’t make sense.  Still, would be nice if someone dropped a modern hemi v8 in a Prowler.

Well said. If you cant see out of your car and its uncomfortable to drive, it becomes uncool in record time.

About that Model S. That’s really the thing, there’s no need for an electric vehicle category. You can have an electric version of a vehicle in any of the categories. For instance, why not sell the Kia Soul in all powertrains and call it good? Same with the F-150, etc. You only have 4 overall types, but more choices.

1. Smallish commuter car/family car

If you are smart, you can finance a car at 0% and you won’t get screwed too badly. If you are smarter, you will find a decent used car, pay cash and laugh on the inside when your poor friends talk about car payments.

While Tom is technically correct I think he misses the real issue here.  Americans in general are spending more than they can afford on cars they don’t need.  In 2019 the average cost of a car was $34,000, that is up 2% from the year before and has been increasing at a rate greater than inflation for over 20 years. …

Two things:

Dave Ramsey is a stinking pile of shit and his show is for entertainment value only. He peddles basic financial advice like “spend less than you make” and has very limited understanding of financial planning. Ramsey works the church crowd because some churches get a kickback on fees. He is a quasi-televangelist. I’d…

Initial quality looks for problems you identify very early in ownership (90 days). Dodge owners are not arriving at the dealer with a checklist of things to review. If you buy a Tesla, it’s very likely that you’ll have one of the plethora of checklists to review every tiny detail of the vehicle inside and out before…

Point taken, but really, I’m hoping you didn’t buy an XC70 expecting it to be reliable in any sense. I even looked at those a few years back, but the horror stories on the forums and crap reliability statistics made me avoid it entirely.

On a broad scale, he explained that with BMW’s expansive line of vehicles, the brand wants to start differentiating each model more, giving them unique identities.

There is actually a world outside the US that has always required front number plates for very good reasons, so even if you didn't need them, the same design considerations still apply.

The European market as a whole is quite different from the US one. Some of our Hondas were sold as Acuras in the US. Opels (direct competitors of brands like Kia and Ford) were and are sold as Buicks in the US. US market cars were laughed out of our market due to their crudeness. At least until a decade ago.

I own an SUV. I love its functionality. But lets be honest, reviews on these are a waste of time. At least with cars historically there were differences in ride and handling. These? They are all just potatoes; potato styling, potato faces, potato infotainment, potato suspensions, potato nutritional value.

You don’t…

The fact that people have been convinced that that’s something that they need is sad.

What I got from this review was:

Commanding view of the ass-end of the wagon-on-stilts or pickup truck in front of you?