I still have a soft spot for the original Top Gear USA trio. Yes, it was overly formulaic in its attempts to replicate the original Top Gear and yes, it took some time for the hosts to gel and eventually abandon the stage and audience, focusing on only doing the road trip/challenges.

Damn, this just made me feel old. lol

Most start-ups will burn alarming amounts of cash for years before becoming profitable. Ask Tesla. They went public in 2013, but didn’t start sniffing at profitability until well along the Model 3's production process in 2019.

Oil companies do control prices at the pump, but what they’re much less in control of is what the commodity itself trades for in a global marketplace.

Lol, exempt from. That’s funny. Exempt like he was when he said he had the funding to take Tesla private in a Tweet and they came down on him like a ton of bricks? Even though he legitimately did have the funding secured, and they were aware of this, but the banks and the SEC made him walk it back forcefully and tell…

Guess we’ll see how much of a “free speech absolutist” he really is in due time.

VW’s biggest success in the U.S. came when they made themselves a sort-of higher end but still affordable brand in the early to mid 2000s. They were still small potatoes compared to most competitors here, but they did infact do well.

Look at the date of the last spat between Winterkorn and Piech. Mere months before dieselgate broke out.

Lol, Mk4's are great little cars. The interior plastics are garbage, but I’ve certainly owned my share of Mk4 diesels with well over 300,000 miles. Still have one as it is.

Customer of mine had one with over 621k miles, which is apparently when the VDO clusters simply stop counting miles on these cars...

Pretty ironic reading this article. More than 20 years ago before F1 came to Indianapolis for the USGP, I remember reading an interview with Max Moseley, then head of the FIA, and it was in regards to how F1 failed in the U.S..

The F-Duct was wild once most teams adopted it.

New cars definitely don’t seem as ‘lively’ as the much lighter weight older cars, especially with full fuel loads.

I love his channel. They can be a little goofy/funny but also do some really sketchy recoveries that you can’t look away from. It’s awesome seeing the ingenuity in building their vehicles and in how they recover others’ vehicles from sticky situations. All with a good attitude and some fairly wholesome jokes.

Well, it is an interesting structure. To have a capped maximum amount of ‘coins’ that can ever be produced and it will take many years before the last one can be minted. It was created specifically to combat the shortcomings of fiat and its ever-inflationary design.

Pretty much the same here. Although even K Jet and the like can be a little bit of a pain.

This for me depends on the car. There are definitely some where the shifter is kind of clunky and the clutch pedal is heavy, that definitely would not be fun for a commuter.

I don’t necessarily agree with mandates, BUUUT, the anti-vax misinformation is absolutely insane. We should have a majority of people vaccinated by now, but there is a certain subsection of the population that refuses to vaccinate until they’re knocking on death’s door in the hospital with COVID-created pneumonia.

I was a teenager in the ‘90s, but what was great about car magazines, especially R&T and C/D, was they often had writers who had great recollection of some of the amazing things that transpired in 50s, 60s and even 70s racing. Said authors were also just fantastic storytellers. They also had the occasional article…

““When I asked them why it was not covered under warranty, they mentioned at [31,000 miles] the oil switch came on and I didn’t get an oil change done right away,” the owner told CTV.”

I would TDI swap it and drive it everywhere.