Neutral: Still going with GM’s ignition switch failures as the biggest, Takata a close second, and Toyota a distant third. Volkswagen’s malignance and scummy tactics can and will be dissected for years to come, but it’s hard to argue it’s the “worst automaker scandal” when the previous three I mentioned can be…

and the car with two less cylinders and same amount of horsepower is called the 45 moniker. cla45

10-20 X what ? Pounds? Ounces? ... Nope, this is the part everyone is forgetting about. It’s up to 1.5g(rams) per km instead of 0.043g/km.

Sorry I can’t hear anything over the deafening mediocrity of drum brakes on a $40k midsize pickup.

At least here in Cleveland Kia (and Hyundai) dealers give me bad vibes. Their commercials are all about “Bad credit! No credit! Repo! Bankruptcy! We can finance you!” They’re worse than the buy here pay here places and it keeps me from visiting the dealers.

Also, Doug - awesome fucking work on this! As a statistics nerd, this was the coolest post I’ve read in weeks.