8 months from now there’ll be an article up here about how your Lexus burned to the ground due to a fuel leak that dripped on the exhaust manifold or some other hot component. And that article will be followed up shortly by someone on the jalopnik staff writing about how you shouldn’t ignore CELs because they are…

I mean the camaro outstripped the chassis, has arguably better engine options (with the exception of the gt350) and is priced similarly to the mustang. The camaro is also lighter, but has terrible sight lines. In spite of the fact that the camaro is a better sports car, the mustang outsells it. For the same reason I…

I thought there was massive public outcry over the new camaro’s looks?

Ok, think of the average person. Think of that persons ability to make rational decisions, how they problem solve, and what type of work ethic they’d have. Now, realize that since that person is average, that literally 50% of the population is worse at all 3 of those things. This is why you want someone who is…

Owner retention is good, conversion/creation is better, sooner or later retained customers start dying and then you are catering to an audience that ceases to exist. Very few members of younger generations are ogling over Harleys. Not that it necessarily has to do with the quality of the product but Japanese…

I mean not to mention that the assless leather chaps industrywoyld fall flat on its face as well if anything were to happen to HD. Whatever else could beard wearing old men throw their money at? They don’t build he fastest or nicest bikes, but they are definitely significantly more expensive than the majority of other…

Smart engineers pick? I believe you mean accountant. There is no engineer worth his salt that willingly drives a dodge/Chrysler product. The only thing Chrysler is doing right is wringing pennies out of an age old platform. Sure, there are other automakers who have just as old if not older platforms, but they are all…

*Based on a platform from Germany.

Even if you are seeing a $400 surplus in your monthly income, that doesn’t even begin to compare to how much money you’ve been losing to inflation for the last 18+ years.

It’s the same reason 4 smaller valves are used instead of 2 larger ones, inertia. Smaller valves have less weight which means they have less inertia. This has a whole host of associated benefits, but the biggest one isn’t noted above, better reactivity at higher rpms.

An 06 Prius? Ok I’m sorry that car has no redeeming qualities other than fuel economy. If Guantanamo bay were made Of mostly hard plastic with a few soft plastics mixed in eclectically, I’d describe the interior of that car as Guantanamo bay. The steering feel is non existent. You may as well be rotating that small…

Or the fact that companies have a slightly harder time selling them because people are used to feeling shift points. So, sure, throw a cvt in it but every automaker with a cvt and any sort of racing pedigree that they care about as a company (read: other than Toyota) is going to program that cvt to behave like a…

Yeah now it’s the rings, right?

I still don’t understand why you would want in car WiFi in a subcompact. You may have one other person in the car with you at any other time and no one is trying to spend enough time in a tiny box to connect to WiFi.

I’m sorry an edge st? Ok, I guess... it’s automatic? Does ford want to kill the st subculture? Cuz that’s how you kill a subculture...

Trying running a mile up a 5% grade and tell me it’s nothing.

They really aren’t significantly more fuel efficient in the real world. Sure thermal efficiency has pretty much peaked for a reciprocating piston engine, but real world fuel economy on the vast majority of cars has actually gotten slightly worse than it was in say 2002.

I mean luxury features aside, the car hasn’t really evolved a lot since the advent of OBDII. Sure there are optional electronic nannies that help you stay in your lane, and there’s Bluetooth to connect your phone wirelessly to your cars speakers. Fundamentally the driving experience is damn near identical. Fuel…

Wouldn’t massive depreciation work against a lease? The whole idea is that you pay for however much of the cars value you lose during the term of the lease. Higher depreciation means worse lease rates.

Theres one in my parking garage... so that’s something