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I saw in a Facebook group an Indian excited about Tesla arriving at his country and with the Autopilot system. Can you imagine a Tesla with Autopilot trying to drive in a busy Indian road?

The economy is bad for some years, the current government only made things worse. But for automotive manufacturers isn’t that bad, ford wanted to end the Brazilian production for years and now was a convenient time to do so. Recently Honda even opened a second car factory here and their sales volume is way lower than

This partnership with Mahindra ended this month. And Brazil wasn't part of this plan, I think it was a India only deal 

This was expected, Ford of Brazil has been taking some bad decisions that now looks like was just a gradual end to the Brazilian production. First they killed the truck division, that was doing great with some new engines, transmission and the old F-Series with Cummins engine basically had a market for itself in rural

Teh Fortuner is sold in Brazil as SW4. It is the official family vehicle from rich farmers and suburban moms who thinks they need a SUV bigger than the neighbor Jeep Compass. And is one of the reason to the end of those fiberglass monsters

Well, the Cadillac CTS and STS had 5 lugs on the regular model and 6 on the V model. The amount of lugs don’t determine if the car have different platform, this happens with lots of cars

I remember this car, Brazilian magazines talked a lot about it at the time because it was planned to succeed the first gen A class and achieve the success the egg-shaped Mercedes didn’t have. At the time the first generation Ford EcoSport had huge sales number and zero direct competitors, this smart crossover was aimed

But what about the double hood scoop?

Use all the money to fix an Alfa Romeo

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My dad bough a G29 recently and I tried for a bit on my PS4. The shifter felt like this video, after a while I stopped use it. But somehow I still prefer the Dualshock controller, maybe I need more time to get used to the wheel

Was about to ask that. Back in the day my family’s groceries was transported at the trunk of a Fiat Uno without any issue. When my father got a Corolla the stuff rolled around the trunk and was more sensible put the groceries at the backseat floor

Just to complement, GTA IV had some cramped apartments without any gameplay issue

This is closer to a rally raid car than a safari 911. It looks cool tho 

The vans. ‘Murica already have the bigger one as Ram Promaster, but the smaller vans are great for urban deliveries and van life stuff

I love the interior of this car, have lots of clever storage and futuristic look. 

I’ve seen this car here in Brazil and have a striking look for a family crossover. And the interior is also very cool. To me is a improvement when compared to what FCA have now 

You can keep the size and lower the weight, the Jaguar XJ X350 did that with lots of aluminiun. Or the F150 for a more recent and affordable example

The 911 Turbo should be called 911 Turbo Turbo 

In Brazil the Dauphine was nicknamed with the name of a powdered milk brand that had a slogan about how it dissolved without mixing. The biggest irony was the Dauphine being sold by Willys-Overland alongside with the Jeep CJ, the same brand had the most reliable and the least reliable car in the market. 

Once per month, sometimes even less. Since my family lives in the city centre, we use the car mostly on highways. And the highway we use the most have a high traffic of trucks carrying iron ore, so even in a nice asphalted road the car became brown. The main focus is to keep the interior clean. And since my Fit is all