I too always thought anything bigger than an M3 was a GT and not meant to be a track car. That said, I’ve never been in an M5, so I don’t if has the cruiser comfort of a GT or if it is really more of a hybrid between the two while the 6/8 were true GTs. 

If the upcoming administration is full of clowns, I maintain my stance that they are staple of horror stories.

Those Pilots & Highlanders (of the same years discussed here) have worse passenger spacing, a smaller trunk, less power with equal MPGs, and fewer features at the lower end trims compared to the Kia/Hyundai. The Highlander is technically rated for the same HP, but drives slower, I assume due to the usual Toyota…

Americans love clowns? Clowns have been a staple of horror movies for decades. We had that whole online clown thing not long ago because of people’s fear of clowns. Maybe some children still like them, but we’ve been conditioned for decades to fear clowns.

Land Rover. This is entirely anecdotal, but at all the different cities & states I’ve lived in since childhood, there have been suburban moms that don’t care about cars but they want a Land Rover.

Can’t wait to see which cabinet position he gets appointed to. 

It is per billion miles for the model, so the timeline depends on how many are on the road and will shrink as more of them are sold. Carolla drivers will hit that billion, as a collective, much faster than the Corvette drivers. So, if there has been 1 death in a C7 during their study window and the NHTSA estimates all…

These are deaths/mile. Altima’s don’t die, they only terrorize.

At least in America, are there any BEVs that don’t already have a highly comparable ICE variant or were inspired by an old ICE model you can still get in the used market?

I expect we’ll see more of these. My sister got an EV and recently used it for a long Thanksgiving trip. At first, she was worried about the extra charging time delaying arrive, but it turns out that was a blessing with the little kids. They got to play and run around during the charge and were way better behaved over…

A 60-month loan has become short by the modern norms of 72-84 month that many buyers have, so that part isn’t a big deal. The payment is the big deal. This guy has to be making at least $250k to keep this payment from taking up more than 20% of his take home pay. People with car loans like this tend to treat other…

That is way more realistic. I just did a quick back calc to see the shortest reasonable term. There are a lot of people who are cash poor but asset rich with a high salary that lets them get away with things like this and have shockingly okay credit. 

The guy is trying to buy a ~$90k car while being $29k underwater and only has $7500 to put down. Assuming a 6.5% car tax (this is a guess) and a 10% interest rate (no way this guy is in single digits), you hit that $2500 with 60 months of payments.

Didn’t Kia & Hyundai offer 10-year warranties for a while? Nissan also added a big extended warranty for their CVTs that kept dying. I expect those 2 things could bring the average way down for out of pocket costs. 

People intentionally starving themselves can draw a lot of attention to a cause, it technically worked to get noticed here. It is a cheap & simple method to raise awareness about something without harming anyone or damaging anything, if that is your preferred way to protest. I have no idea if any hunger strikes have…

Spending energy to transport something that is then used for energy can be a huge waste of that energy source. An island nation that can produce its own fuel has a huge benefit from simply removing the transportation aspect of getting fuel to there.

Dropping names for the number scheme was so terrible for Cadillac. Virtually every non-car person knows the Escalade and many can name an older model like the El Dorado. I’d be surprised if half of the current Cadillac lease holders could name their exact model without looking at the back first. Just because it has…

Well Trump has to do something to tank the economy & raise unemployment by 2028 so we can repeat the same post-GOP presidency economic cycle of the last 30 years. Then once a Dem admin gets things leveled out, we can listen to everyone bitch that their individual life didn’t get way better, so we have to mix things up…

I’ve actually been a bit of the opposite on Bugatti. As I’ve age, supercars just look more like an uncomfortable compromise to show off wealth than anything worth owning, even if I had some spare millions to waste. Bugatti pushing the limits of material engineering is far more interesting to me than anything from just…

To be fair, it was the 80s. I wouldn’t be shocked if some random spectators got to walk over and collect some debris before all the flames went out.