2nd: You don’t have to go to crossovers. Some are horribly cramped. The Ford Escape, for example, is comfortable for me (6'6") in the driver’s seat but there is practically no space left in the second row. OTOH, in my 2nd gen Mazda6, I can set the driver’s seat to be comfortable for me, and yet I can still fit…

First off, the answer is simple. As little as possible.

Doesn’t matter your income level - you should be looking to spend as little as you can on a depreciating asset where a cheaper alternative will serve your ultimate purpose as well as a more expensive one.

That doesn’t mean you can’t buy a nicer trim - just know the…

note Glad to see someone acknowledge it. The self-selection of subscribers and the voluntary nature of the survey both throw some bias and significant error into the process.

Also, note that they say they had “more than 400,000 vehicles”. Ok, but that’s over 2000-2019 model years, which would average out to 20,000…

Well, its not like other makers don’t do the same damned thing.

I had a caliper seize on the Camry had up until about 4 years ago.  When I went to get a replacement, I found that model year Camry had ***SIX*** different brake caliper designs.  There were two different designs for the 6 cylinder, and you had to know…

Yep - the gap between the top and the bottom is still significant. But top to middle of the pack?  No difference there, really.  The problem rates look like an exponential distribution -the very bottom ones are truly awful, but you don’t have to move up much before its pretty much a wash.

Came here to say this.

Frankly, its a sign of how awful they’ve been that they still weren’t reliable after 10 years of leaving everything unchanged that it still took a few more to fix things.

But the bastards won’t give us that one.

While I’m not a fan of the grill, I find the echo of one being there in this case to still look better than the Model 3, where they look like they took the remains of one and smudged it with an eraser.  Get rid of it completely, or at least acknowledge the look, as silly as it may seem.

Who was the VP who greenlighted this? Descartes? “I think I’m a Mustang, therefore I am”?

Damnit, there I go again, putting Descartes before the horse.

Cars are recalled for safety defects, NEVER for something that is a reliability issue that doesn’t impact safety.  Those problems are treated via service programs and extended warranties.

cars in those first years that had problems were fixed. Plain and simple. Did it take too long? Sure, but they’re fixed. If you’re going to rely on class-action lawsuits for your proof, you need to stop and look at the blood sucking leeches that attach themselves to those cases, and how often the numbers are GROSSLY…

I used to. Outskirts of Detroit, too, believe it or not. It’s better here in Ohio than MI for most areas, but even then you can’t jump to too many conclusions. Detroit itself is awful, because the city has very few functioning snowplows. The town I grew up in with a population 1/9th the size and covering just a tiny…

What automaker ever fixed a faulty engine or transmission with a completely different engine or transmission?

Again, look at the CR problem rates and you’ll see that the problems were, in fact, fixed. It still shifts rough compared to a traditional automatic transmission, but that’s because it is truly a manual…

Actually, they did. That bad and arguably even worse. The key? Sales were small. No one expected Tesla to launch into a complete gut and rebuild of a factory in 31 days and get up to 100% of final capacity in just a few days after reopening. Ford went 0-360,000 vehicles and had problems which they fixed. Tesla is…

Well, if you look at the stats on failure rates, you’d see they fixed them.  CR even validates that and shows that most of the lawsuit stuff is pure crap.

Telsa is the Kleenex of electric cars. It’s that simple. That is their identity. Anyone else moving to electric only is encroaching on that identity and will lose

There’s this magic invention called a window... :P

Well, and there are traffic cams, google maps, etc - its pretty easy actually to find out how busy roads are.

You’re only digging yourself deeper, dipshit.  You can deny that it takes significant training to get workers up to a skill level needed to operate their lines efficiently all you want, you just make yourself look like an idiot.  

I think you’re dramatically overestimating how many people actually have the true need to get out during those times. Especially when you consider how many people live in areas where anything above a dusting is rare.

Hell, I live in Ohio and that strategy generally only means 4-5 times per year I avoid driving for a…

Yep - that was my point. As GM/Ford have cut back on sales to rental fleets (they still push other fleets, but those are more lucrative and far less harmful to resale values, because that construction co. pickup is beat to hell before its resold), Hyundai, Kia, and Nissan have all been flooding that market.