FCA should just partner with Mahindra. Let Mahindra make the Roxor, but brand it as a Jeep for true off road. Win-win. Mahindra keeps making the product. Jeep gets some additional brand recognition and a market they otherwise might not be in without the capital investment.

As Clint Eastwood said “A man’s got to know his limitations...”

I know which is why I don’t get why they don’t get rid of the clutch altogether at this point. It isn’t needed.

I’ve always been a fan of automatic bikes. I hate having to deal with a clutch when I am riding. I get the wannabe MotoGP folks can’t fathom some people think shifting is antiquated, but I hate that there aren’t many high performance auto bikes like with cars.

That is the official hoodrat car.  

I race remote controlled cars. I’ve spent more than $1,000 on entry fees, equipment and lodging attending one race. At some races, you can easily spend $250 just on freaking tires for a toy car!

I like Uber as a service. Far better than traditional cabs. However, I never understood the value of Uber as a company. It just seems like it would be easy for the cab industry to just replicate it as an app so that getting a cab is far more convenient.

Most of the people I know with Tesla’s make anywhere from $125k - $500k or so. Heck, I know folks making $1 million. Very few of them would spend $200k on any car even if they can technically “afford it.” There may be some people at the margin who might step up to a Taycan since it is new, but I can’t see them being…

THIS +100. Heck, I’d take an SRT based Pacifica. As a middle aged man with two toddlers, it might actually make getting a minivan cool.

I raced off road RC cars competitively. The modified cars were by far the most fair class of racing. Essentially, anyone could build a car that went fast, etc. It really all came down driving skills. This would be like unlimited budget racing. Basically, there is diminishing returns on how much you spend on your car…

That’s exactly what they should do. Take a page from Mercedes in how they market their G-Wagons. Go with a more resto-mod look so it looks like a hardcore off-road vehicle but keep the inside luxury like. Offer a TRD Pro version that is already lifted with off road tires, snorkel, etc.

Facts! I had a 2005 v8 Touareg. Loved the car and it was fairly reliable. Put 130,000 miles on it. The brake job costs were ridiculous. I think I had a water pump or something go out and it was about $2k to fix. It required removing the entire engine so most of it was labor cost.

The marginal utility of a new car versus a well maintained car that is say 5-10 years old is pretty low. I look at it like cellphones. It was a huge upgrade to go from say a flip phone to an iphone hence you could kind of rationalize the expensive price. There really isn’t that big of a difference between say an…

It boils down to the fact that despite people complaining, they aren’t willing to pay for more comfort. For the most part, airline travel is a commodity nowadays and consumers treat it as such. It is easy to blame big business, but the reality is that consumers share just as much blame.

All the screens are making me want analog dashboards more and more now. I really wish manufacturers would just stick to making the car and let the aftermarket handle screens / software.

I don’t have a problem with it, but he is completely tone deaf to be bragging about how his daughter got in on her own merits.  I mean she may very well be qualified, but when you have $70 million backing your application, it is hard to claim that you “got in on your own.”

Mortgage lenders are required BY LAW (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act) to ask your race and ethnicity. Even if you don’t tell them, they will guess based on your picture ID.

The point is the state should be charging ANYONE 9% on a car whether it is a Kia or a Bentley.  Just charge $75 bucks or some reasonable fee to cover the administration of the DMV or whatever bureaucracy the tax is designed to pay for.

Instead of investigating, why doesn’t state legislature stop raping consumers with confiscatory and questionable taxes?

A pet peeve of mine is red turn signals. It seems so basic and common sense to have a yellow turn signal imho. I’ve noticed one or two flashes of amber/yellow turn signals is enough to catch your eye to see that a car is changing lanes. However, the red turn signals really just blend in too much and sometimes it takes…