but its reliance on wheels instead of tracks has earned complaints it would be unable to traverse poor terrain. This is a trade-off every ground force makes—slower tracks and better cross-country performance or faster wheels and worse off-road capability? 

I stand by my original statement and it needs no “fixing”.

Renault did have a hand in helping to design the XJ Cherokee.  So that’s something.

Cerberus buys Chrysler/Jeep, chews it up, spits it out.

Sitting in my closet is my grandfather’s mid 1970's vintage Hondo. It’s from the early days of guitar making in South Korea.

I would normally be with you, but my phone’s battery is making that more and more of a challenge in the last year or so.

My neighbor had a diesel Excursion for a few years.  Last year I saw that it had been replaced with a Ford truck with a gas engine.  I asked him about it, and he said of that diesel Excursion “for every penny I saved on gas, I spent a nickel fixing it”.

Followed by Geely announcing the resurrection of Pierce Arrow

Yeah maybe if gas were expensive people would vote for politicians that advanced policies that improved public transportation.

and why he thinks gas prices should be steadily raised to $7 a gallon like in Europe, both inherently reasonable policy positions for someone to have, even someone who enjoys driving.

This reminds me a little bit of the story “Johnny Got His Gun”. It’s a 1939 novel about a soldier in WW1 who is injured so that he can not see, hear, smell, or touch. Trapped inside his own mind he wonders if he is really alive.

That’s even more interesting.

One of the 2019 Chevy Silverado’s most enticing options is without a doubt its new inline six-cylinder 3.0-liter Duramax turbo diesel engine.

So far, that hasn’t been the case. After being lambasted for the original SYNC and MFT systems, Ford actually reworked it and did it right.

However, Fords with SYNC3 are actually pretty good. It’s easily the best touch screen I have ever used in a car.

The seating position best described as monkey fucking a football.

Last year’s volume of 118,074, boosted by the introduction of the new Eclipse Cross crossover, was good for a 14 percent improvement. 

Care to make a deal?

This is a surprise. I admit, I very much thought they were just going to take the Ford Everest and put the wheel on the left side and change the nameplate and call it a day.

Technically, I meant cylinder blocks. In both motorcycles and flat engines, the cylinder blocks tend to be separate from the crankcase. So a V or flat engine really will have two cylinder blocks.