Brazil have a huge incentive for manufacturers use locally sourced parts. And the Brazilian autoparts can be high quality or shitty ones, depends on what the manufacturer wants. With the Duster, Renault uses a seat frame worse than the European model and with a smaller side airbags. While the Colombian Duster uses the…

Since the Latin Ncap is a recent thing, the standards are slowly increasing. The Duster god good grades, but now they tested the car again with the lateral impact test and it failed.

It was about the high chances of this happen in the US, mr. Red Forman

The Mitsubishi branch in Brazil have some level of freedom from the mothership. So they still has some investments on rally competition. This year Mitsubishi did this L200 with a 5 litre V8 (don’t know the engine source) as a flagship at the Rally Dos Sertões (the most important rally from the country).

Homicide is a perfect reaction for cheese, sure.

It is exactly the same as the euro 500e, the wltp numbers can be used as a reference. But this Fiat move can inspire other manufacturers to create their own arbitrary range test. It was like this with fuel consumption on ICE cars until the standardization. 

Brazil don’t have yet a standard for EV range measure, so the manufacturers release the WLTP, EPA or the Chinese standard number depending on the origin of the car.

Biky McBikeface

The frigging Dodge Journey had this. It should be more popular in more good cars besides the Volvo

The pedestrian safety regulations killed the traditional pop-up headlights, but technically nothing prohibits some sort of hideaway headlights, right? Something like a panel who makes a 180° flip when the lights are on.

I’m curious about the bulletproof part. Here in Brazil bulletproof regular cars are quite common in big cities. And the glass of these cars suffers from delamination after around 10 years, you have to replace all the glass when this start to happens.

The United States of blaming everything but don’t look for the obvious solution. Can they just improve the licensing process to come out with better drivers? Also having some periodical driving exams to renovate the driver’s license.

Here in Brazil the automatic transmission is only becoming a majority of the cars over the last few years. And since the driving test to get a license is always made with a manual transmission car, everybody always uses the parking brake, even with automatic cars. Now people are more lazy and complain about cars…

I read about GM being developing a new Express to compete with the Transit. But seems to be based on the new Silverado platform, so don’t expect an Euro-style unibody van.

Oh, come on! I just got a new job, why didn’t y’all posted this in april when I was unemployed?

This is not the first time Harley tried to enter into Harley territory tho

I never understood that update. They should only delete the musics for copies of the game sold before the license expiration date. Who bought it before already paid for everything and should had the right of enjoy for what was paid.

GM was offering Brembos on the Tahoe and Escalade. 

I see lots of Brazilian talking about cars from the US as great quality cars. And the really rich imports Cadillac Escalade for more than a S-Class because reasons.

Isn’t the whole point of buying a Rolls-Royce or a Bentley the bespoke configuration of the car? Rich people are now taking some car from the lot configured by someone else like a peasant buys a Toyota?