Not relevant for this discussion, but China is a single-party socialist state since 1980. That“Communist Party” operate a socialist regime there. Just world knowledge, no biggie.

The lousy Chinese-Market-only Lamando GTS is sharing the platform with Passat, but weirdly I think the execution is better with the Lamando?

Sorry for picking up an old post. But you speak so much sense you shocked me. Too bad this world has too little people capable of thinking like you.

If the Hilux is a great truck, I will buy it anyway regardless of this video. I am sure a lot of people were like me, came from a time when trucks have no traction/stability control, when you can flip every truck like this straight from the dealer. That was a time when people were expected know basic vehicle control…

Speaking of pedantic, I notice the fancy suave silver truck’s back drops are mostly Hong Kong, a city with regulation that consider pick up truck to be commercial vehicle only, such irony.

They killed this awesome car and use its face and butt to build more of these boring vans in China? Renault could use a new halo car. C’mon

Since someone mentioned Craigslist, I think it’s worthy to note unless you really really love wrenching and really know what you are doing or both, stay away from used hobby-grade RC’s. They might look very tempting by having various “upgrades” in a sometimes lower-than-buying-new prices, but these vehicles are…

You wrote a very fine piece of automotive journalism, I don’t understand why so many people are missing your point. All I can to is press thumbs up on your comment.

Here is something slight more contemporary, but still rival the cringe-worthiness of the post-opening E30's rotting away

Hi Doug, I don’t want to be a pedantic James May on this, but I want to let you know that there are extremely few American-bound RR Phantoms could be driven in Hong Kong because left-hand-drive cars cannot be legally registered there, unless the car is 20 years or older, similar to the State’s 25 year rule. Here is a…

Thanks for the insight!

My college friend had a 10' 6mt “M3" too, and he frequently refuse to take it to longer trip with us because he claims the gas mileage is abysmal, but we always, always call him BS. “M3" is very good driving car, but is it really that bad on fuel for a 2.5 normally aspirated engine??

LeTV, they run as Netflix sort of site but their real job is making TV’s and smartphones of the same brand with decent popularity in its home market. LeTV was one of our employer’s case study, I can mock all I want, like all things came out of China, but people who could run a company like this are certainly not…

I don’t own any Nissan’s or have any special feeling for them, but I do have a special feeling for Consumer Reports. Maybe because the CR name used to be cited by Chevy commercial a lot, I tend to feel CR have a subtly positive bias toward GM vehicles, and therefore CR never held high credibility in my mind.

My PC as I am looking through the screenshots: Oh God no, please, no

Thanks, RC car is an underrated hobby.

It’s not that original.