I’d love to test drive an Insignia/Buick wagon. My Fit Sport has been great since 2013, but it’s noisy and tiring on highway trips and it could really use another 40 hp, better front seats and a taller top gear. By the time this gets here and has had a year or two to work out any teething issues I’ll be back in the…

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Uh, no. Ford didn’t need a huge bailout because they saw the crash coming and mortgaged all their physical assets to the max while the credit markets were still functional in order to generate operating cash... and they still took lots of government money, just not as much and under different programs. Congrats on…

People who never owned malaise-era cars during that era generally have no idea just how pathetically awful many of those American cars were.

No. PRNDL exists as an accepted standard for a reason - before the 1960s manufacturers used a variety of different arrangements - like no park position at all, or reverse being where drive should be - and there were frequent accidents as a result. In today’s exponentially more crowded roads and cities, the chance of a…

Because every time you rent a zip car it costs you money. Because sometimes you need to take a last minute trip and the zip cars near you are all spoken for. Because the chargers at work may not be compatible with your vehicle, or they may be occupied. Because winter happens, which saps range. Because shit happens…

Overflow parking for Chad and Buffy’s wedding. Can’t have people messing up the turf on the golf course

Because nobody spending $85k on a new luxury SUV is taking it further off-road than a gravel country club parking lot.

No, that would be normal. On that road - 211 curves in 11 miles - it wouldn’t be unusual for some part of *any* vehicle to be close to the center line when cornering. Motorcycles take up more width as they lean more, and if there’s something in the road (of if you don’t get a good line from the last curve, which is a…

They went the same place all the Escorts went: used up and junked. Mid 90s cars are now 20 years old, and all the ones that were just regular transportation have either rusted away or gotten over 200k miles. If you want a mileage-first 90s style crap can hatch, buy a new base model Mirage.

It’s an 18 year old car. If it’s seen 16 salty northeastern winters without proper care to get rid of the salt and preserve the undercarriage, that’s what you get. BT, DT

Dat flamethrower, tho 🔥 🔥 🔥

This is why I always fly southwest when they’re an option. No bag fees, good and friendly service and they’ve always been able to handle it well when things have gone wrong, which wasn’t often.

You might be surprised at how few states require annual safety inspections. California doesn’t. PA still does but Maryland and Michigan don’t, and CT and NJ used to but stopped that requirement a few years ago.

Hyundai should fix it under warranty and change their trim design on newer models to accommodate this customer demographic. As a dealership service manager, I’d be pissed at the manufacturer if they treated my customer like this for a completely reasonable design defect and an inexpensive repair. It isn’t like the guy…

5th gear- the US hasn’t been a top VW market since the 80s.

The FAA and the entire air traffic control network disagrees with you.

If you’re seriously concerned with warranty length or warranty service for a daily driver, mail order parts probably aren’t the way to go, I’m guessing.

Yup. The front subframes gradually rot out in salt country, as do the rear suspension locator rod-to- floor mount points. As long as basic maintenance is done on time (and nobody removes the trans filter magnet completely) those cars will run forever.

Torch, the TPP was never enacted. Obama never put it before congress to vote it into law as required, and it could not take effect without being approved by congress, which Obama recognized wasn’t going to happen... so the chicken tax was going to stay.