It’s not like Honda’s AWD system does any good anyway. (See video above.)
Waste of weight, frankly.
Honda’s response to this blunder is that their differential is too tiny to handle the torque necessary for a proper AWD system. Pretty hilarious.
If you insist on a Honda, you might as well stick with FWD and good snow…
J-Body + David Hasselhoff = End of Cars & Coffee Problems
No, really:
https://pistonrepublic.com/users/svt_man/posts/how-to-stop-crashes-at-cars-coffee
This is a great list, Kristen. Nicely thought out.
Objectively speaking? Really?
Is styling ever objective?
You’re suggesting I said or thought something I didn’t.
The reason I was referencing the year 10 models from Consumer Reports is because my 2010 Fusion is ... you guessed it ... 10 years old. What a concept.
Let’s look at the actual bar graph so people can see what you’re claiming I cherry pick:
No you aren’t imagining things. The Taurus IS small inside. Ford is letting it die on the vine.
State a car brand, and I’ll find you a class action lawsuit against that brand for transmissions.
Automatic transmissions are one of the most complex pieces of mechanical wizardry on your car. I don’t think it’s a secret that if you don’t maintain a transmission properly, it will grenade. They are complicated kit.
Even…
In my friend circle, the Need for Speed game (the original) and Fast and the Furious pretty much made the Supra ubiquitous.
I loved racing the red Supra in Need for Speed. It always destroyed the Acura NSX and Mazda RX-7.
The stock Supras were amazing GT cars and very cool in their own right.
I honestly detested Fast…
I think the Supra was more of a wall poster nostalgia for our generation.
Taurus is a car that should have died a long time ago.
The only reason it stayed around was because Mullally wanted to keep the brand because he liked driving a previous generation Taurus as a rental car.
In a lot of ways the 500 was actually a better car inside because it had more room. Forgettable styling, but a…
I’ve seen Dashboard Lights ... but not in my Fusion because it has been great.
Think about what the statement in my OP actually means though - let’s review:
“There is no way that a Japanese car would have been cheaper to keep on the road.”
This study is about how long an owner keeps a car - not how long the car stays on the road.
My Fusion has 217k on it, and there is no way a Japanese car would have been cheaper to keep on the road.
They did that with a Jaguar XJ220, too.
Clarkson was demonstrating the turbo lag, in part.
I think what they’re getting at is that the vehicle won’t buck like a bronco when you’re in high gear at low speeds because of its high torque V8.
I agree with this sentiment. I have a 2010 Fusion with 217k on it. It just keeps going.
I keep a watchful eye on oil and listen for abnormal noises -but aside from needing a few extra moments to warm up in the winter to avoid harsh shifts, it’s been perfectly happy to keep going.
I also stopped going to “quick change”…
I was a NASCAR fan back in the mid 2000s when the racing was still good in NASCAR. (I realize some people debate this, but the competition was good at that time ... it steadily declined since about the late 2000s or so.)
The reason I mention this is because I attended at least 5 or 6 Brickyard 400s.
As a former NASCAR…
NASCAR has the Brickyard 400. Are suggesting the Indy 500 would have been another NASCAR race on top of that?
My twin brother bought a 4 cylinder 5 speed Escape to learn stickshift.
Despite being mostly gutless it was one of the most fun vehicles to drive because you could grab it by the scruff and ring it out.
Rubbery, super long throws made it even more fun. Felt like a truck driver.
I’d be curious to see what this thing looks like underneath. The body looks extremely straight.
If the underneath is as clean as the rest of the car, this thing is a steal!
