Any modern German/Italian lux vehicle is pads & rotors for any brake set replacement and is $1200 - $1400 no matter the house that replaces it.  Not a surprise at all. 

My ex-boss bought the manual gated V10 Spyder. Awesome. Mild mannered when you wanted it, but angry and surprisingly controllable when you wanted to let it go. Fantastic car. I didn’t have the ~$130k to get a used one . . .

The G4 cube really was a design innovation, even though it flopped. Considering it’s >20 years old, the ability to access all of your internal components probably appealed to < 0.01% of the public that was buying an Apple. So they really missed the target audience on that one, slick as it was to nerdy upgraders. The…

In a lot of cases the cars on this list are actually built in the US, but of a Japanese (i.e. Toyota kaizen) mindset and corporate dedication to quality and reputation. The US car manufacturers ‘try’ to follow this model, but ultimately the motivations and cost around it in the short term allow the mentality to get…

Unless it weighs only 1 tonne and goes 0-60 in 3s and jitters your teeth out of your head on the way.  Then it’s a Lotus. 

I would fill the open gaps with the headlamps, and thin the front lines, maybe combine them, or at least round them out.  Otherwise, most of the rest of the car is quite nice.  Genesis design inspired and just enough years out that if they did make 500 as some suggested, would be really cool to see some on the road.

The burn down has begun!

This would help immensely in the areas of major concerns, high incident rate intersections, certain highways, freeway, and byways. It would help with awareness and accountability if the tickets weren’t outrageous, but just ‘sting’ in their costs. +5 over the limit: $50. +10 over the limit $150, +20: $300 , +25 or more,…

Fugly

Tom was close. But as they have the long haul Elantra and working Dakota, get an impractical, but commuter worthy, good mileage Miata. Surprised no one recommended it yet, but it’s the obvious and correct choice. Even over the GTI-again recommendations.

I saw an entire armada of these ugly monsters on hwy 101 last weekend.  Gawdawful.

No, not cool. Microsoft and Google need to re-think that strategy. Pay artists of all nature what they’re owed. It takes talent to have a style, and to have that style ripped off in 10 seconds by any yahoo with a laptop is not cool.

Indeed they do.  Pina colada for the driver, Rum and coke for the passenger.  What could go wrong? 

Golf carts and 25+ mph e-bikes should require a basic traffic law license, if not a full one.  Too many 14 yr olds going 30mph the wrong way in a bike lane, on a sidewalk, against traffic just begs for more deaths. 

So, why create a sleek interior and then ruin it with the dumb circular and outdated vents at each end of the dash? What is up with that? Am I the only one that find it offensive?

I see this thing and all I can think of is my grade school mantra: “‘U’ ‘G’ ‘L’ ‘Y’, you ain’t got no alibi, you ugly! You ugly!”

Agree. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the seller apparently sees a rare, yellow over brown, well worn, mechanically suspect, comfortable lay-z-boy recliner as the ultimate beauty. $60k? NFW.

Even with rust, this could be an e-motor construct and redo, given it only needs ~80hp to be fun. You wouldn’t want to go more than 100 miles in it at one go anyway, so perfect for this mod.

On point, the cockroaches of the road are Altimas.  No question about that.  Star for you.

Does Ford just leave the keys in the truck, or what? How do you steal a presumably sophisticated electronically controlled system? CAN bus access? And if you’re re-selling, is it that easy to figure out the key codes to program a set of keys for a buyer? Just wanna know how this keeps happening. My Audi locks out…