As someone who’s been involved in only really a modicum of mainstream auto industry testing for a few different manufacturers and suppliers, that hub wear thing was incredibly alarming. I’ve seen floor mats go through testing and pick up much more minor issues than that and requiring alteration before being released.…

the roadster will go through 3 million tweets of hard testing before its released to the public. itll be fine.

Your blind, drooling fealty to Dodge seems like an indicator of severe brain damage, but maybe it’s a birth defect.

The XM. I’ve always loved BMW and still do root for them even if I am not a fan of where their design direction is headed. I’m not saying it’s not wrong to think about sales, as any company that plans to stay afloat, should have a healthy business model. However, with the XM, it’s nothing but a massive steaming fresh…

The modern leather-lined crew-cab pickup truck. It’s neither a good “car” nor a very good truck, except, maybe, for towing. It’s too big, too inefficient, handles poorly because of the high center of gravity, and doesn’t offer secure, weatherproof storage (in its bed). If I had to narrow it down to one, it would be…

The problem still is that the market for affordable, small cars has never gone anywhere. They’re just choosing to ignore it because it’s inconvenient to increasing margins. But they also don’t want anyone else to take the market they’re leaving behind. They want it both ways, and that’s just not how the free market…

Yep. Doesn’t matter what you think about China, their labor practices, or how they can unfairly undercut domestic automakers. It is eventually going to be worth it to them to go through the steps necessary to sell cars in the US.

Basically, a lot of times it’s easier to tell someone something is ‘illegal’ or ‘against policy’ rather than going through an argument about why you are or aren’t going to do something.

The unfortunate truth is it isn’t that simple. As I read somewhere a while back, “What people think of as the South, or the middle of nowhere, is really just 30 miles outside of any major city”. I live squarely in northern Massachusetts and I worry every day that New Hampshire will go to Trump in 2024, just based on…

Vote. Vote like you’d like the opportunity to vote again in 2028.

Just give it up already, Ford. Kill everything other than the F-150 and the Mustang. Let the US auto industry collapse under its own top-heavy weight and accept that the Chinese are going to going to own this country by the next decade. All you’re doing is slowing down the inevitable.

$25k gets you a whole lot of Ford Flex. For that price, the mileage is gonna be low too. I’m seeing most of them over $20k with less than 50k miles on them. Plenty of space for taller drivers, and the seats fold completely flat, which makes for an absolutely CAVERNOUS interior. The Flex has the same interior volume as…

That was proven to be a hoax

We just are so much better than this.

So your HOA is trying to fight what someone else does on their land that is outside the confines of that HOA? How HOA of them.

We need a movement to persuade Jon Stewart to step down. It’s clear he is no longer fit for the job. His memory is clearly failing him if he doesn’t remember  this:

Look, wanting everyone to have reasonable healthcare insurance and believing trans people don’t have the right to exist are just two different but equal things that people can believe, right?

I like Jon, but this is par for the course with him. I think he’s a phenomenal critic of the media, but is much worse as a political pundit, especially when he tries to engage in good faith with his bad faith sparring partners from the right. It’s very cringe-worthy, and only gets moreso as the climate continues to…

This is why I don’t fuck with Stewart, because he feels obligated to give racist assholes like this airtime

My biggest fear about buying a Corolla is that I might spend a 1/4 of my life driving one.