And this is why we still need sedans.

At this point, most of those price increases are meaningless. Hybrids are sold out for the year, and there’s still a backlog of non hybrid orders that will last nearly until the 2023 model year anyway.

Of my 4 “First” cars, I probably have the most attachment to the worst one of the bunch.

You’re evil. Please edit this post before a Manufacturer rep sees it and implements it.

That’s exactly what he did, and that’s how he ended up w a Focus instead, lol.

This is the same thing that happened during can for clunkers. I saw a friend trying to use his 97 Villager for the $3500 credit toward a $9,995 Hyundai Accent. By the time the purchase and sale came around, that Accent would have been over $20 grand. When I called out his salesman, he told me that if he didn't want to…

Not a cop here, but even without tracking, how many police need to be involved in any given pursuit? It seems to me, the more players that get involved, the more chances for tragedy. I see 1 maybe 2 officers in pursuit and others up the road communicating by radio w strips. Do 10 officers in pursuit really make much…

This is a Tesla article. Leave your SAAB stories out of this!

As much as I agree w your statement, The Plaid edition was supposed to be built for track days. If people were complaining about the brakes on the standard S, that’d be one thing, but the whole point of this version was to build the fastest sedan they could. If they didn’t upgrade the brakes as much as they upgraded…

Not for nothing, you should have told us the alternator crapped out, just to save face.

I almost scrolled down and clicked no dice without even reading the article. Then I remembered that my first car(Truck) was an ‘87 S10 Blazer with the garbage 2.8 and a transmission that lasted 2 weeks after I bought it. I paid $2,500 to buy it off the friend whom I berated for buying it for that same amount 6 months…

If you go over 100 years ago, we didn’t replace dogs with robots, we replaced horses with robots. Horses were a means to an end, and we found a better means in the automobile. All the equine purists decried the loss of horse as sacrilege, but horses never went away completely, they just became a niche. That's the same…

I can’t believe nobody mentioned Saturday Night Fever. For a movie that was remembered as little more than an album long music video, that shit is incredibly dark.

IDK, I think all 3 mesh together pretty well, if you ask me. Take away his license, all but forcing him to become a cyclist. He’ll learn empathy pretty quick once he experiences first hand what other cyclists face. Not to mention how he’ll be perceived by all his anti-cyclist friends.

The thing here, is the lights, esp the little light strips integrated into the front bumper, are easily ignored if they fail. I get they won’t all fail at once, but when they do fail, at worst you have a plain bumper.

Uh, Lincoln/Mercury would like a word

This is why so many EV/hybrid manufacturers use relatively small percentage of their batteries’ capacity. Regulating maximum discharge rates, not allowing the batteries to charge over 80% or discharge below 50% is how vehicles like Prii or older escape hybrids can achieve 300,000+ miles on the original powertrain…

It’s already an issue because of a chip shortage. The can of worms that would be opened up by reengineering the 3-4 modules (Eng computer, body computer, instrument cluster, Keyless entry module if push to start) responsible for reading the PATS key and the handshake procedure allowing security access would just make…

Even the “keyed" ignition locks still rely on transponder chips for security access. 

And now that shitty theme song about a whiny kid learning that a mild breakdown is all it takes to make the adults come and fix everything is stuck in my head.