Which one did you buy new and then have to spend $8K on in “a few years” for maintenance and repairs? And how many miles did you put on that new bike in that time? Because they come with a two year, unlimited mileage warranty and the oil changes are every 7500 miles these days, with 15,000 or 18,000 mile valve check…

Mine was a stick shift; I’d never buy one with an automatic (especially since it only has 117 hp). Had it for 5 years and 75,000 miles before getting tired of the lack of power, road noise, screaming engine at 70 mph etc and buying an ‘18 TourX. Sold the Fit to my ex so she could have a reliable, cheap, safe car to get…

I bought a then-new Fit Sport in 2013. It was a great city car, remarkably similar to my ‘93 Civic Si hatch in many ways. Same footprint, similar power and mileage, similar go kart like handling, far more space for people and cargo and more utility. But 20 years after 1993, it was seriously underpowered, and was…

Um.. millions of sodium azide airbag inflators existed for decades before this that didn’t use ammonium nitrate. They’re still in cars today, working fine, 20 plus years later.

The whole reason this happened is that Takata wanted to save a few pennies per airbag module by cheaping out with the propellant. Ammonium…

I’m curious to see how GM and VW intend to turn a profit on EVs.

NP all day, as long as the engine isn’t sludgy.
If you want a reliable, comfortable used 4 seat convertible, this is it. Your other choice is a Sebring.

So, where can we find these headlight ratings, by year make and model? I searched the IIHS website and did a general google search and came up with nothing.

That’s great that one Gulf standard is equal to one individual FMVSS standard. What about the other 38 or so other FMVSS standards that new cars are required to meet? And after that, the various crash standards, and labeling stndards, and emissions standards?

Dude. You started with the bitchy reply right out of the gate - “Where do you live, in 2005?”. And now you’re butthurt? Spare me.

And yeah, as cabs. Get out of L.A. for a while and see that there are still Crown Vics in service as cabs around the country.

The answer to your question is in the post. And Crown Vics were in production through the 2011 model year, so if you haven’t seen one since 2009 you may want to get your eyes checked.

Upthread, you said:

Passing EU safety standards by itself doesn’t really mean anything relative to passing US standards, though. EU and US standards (safety, emissions, labeling and crash) are different enough - and challenging enough - to often require designing to the tests in those areas. One example of many: the US FMVSS 216 roof…

As mentioned here, lots of people (me included) prefer to ride in a nice, clean newer car with a usually-pleasant stranger over getting into the back of a clapped out 265,000 mile 9 year old Crown Vic ex cop car with the cop spec knee killing partition and cramped vinyl back seat, failed A/C and the ABS and airbag…

Their big play and volume is in India, where crash test safety is often nonexistent by Western standards.

We already have anti EV bros in the general public everywhere. It’s not like all the charge stations in the nation aren’t open to the general public 24/7 and unmanned right now.
For the record, I’ve seen far more broken gas pumps than EV chargers. Including pumps damaged by careless or malicious people.

Non-Tesla EV owner here. I have never seen a broken charge station yet, free or pay. I *have* seen all of the free ones around me in constant use - literally every single time I’ve gone to the places that have free charging they are all being used, day or night - and none of them have ever been broken yet in spite of…

IDK about Teslas, but our Bolt will get about 40 miles a night charging @12A on a standard 120V household socket. One thing to check is whether the car you’re driving defaults to an 8 amp rate for wall socket charging, as ours would if left to the default setting. We have GPS enabled charging enabled, so our car will…

Land Cruisers are why Icon exists, even before Icon the founder was doing landcruisers back in 1996. They were involved with Toyota for what became the FJ Cruiser, too. Interesting story:

What more could you want? For $180,000 - A/C and heat.

I love the stuff Icon builds - their Hudson build is amazing, for example - but for that kind of coin I actually want to drive it, and not just on sunny days with perfect weather. Especially if it’s a highly trail capable truck. But I guess of you have $180k to…

Imagine spending development money on your best selling, highest profit vehicles - in highly competitive market segments  - and not your money losing cars in low volume segments that few people buy here, no matter how good they might be.