As I said in another comment, firefighters have been fighting gas and diesel fires for 100 years. They’ve been fighting electric car fires for less than 10.

Issa, try to imagine what it’s like working in a service drive at a dealership. Your service advisor can only authorize an inflator replacement if the manufacturer says your VIN is affected. It’s not his decision to make whether your car needs an inflator. You are understandably upset about this dangerous situation…

OK. Maybe the tech was being a jerk or uncooperative, and I can certainly understand not wanting to drive around with defective airbags. However, the guy probably had a list of cars which he had to follow, and your car was not on that list, so it wasn’t subject to replacement. The guy isn’t testing the inflators…

This 1970 Olds Cutlass certainly celebrates the 80's

I’ve had my truck for over a decade now, and I’ll be keeping it indefinitely because new trucks now are ridiculous.

I’m one of those guys who has paid over msrp to get a new car the day it drops.

No regrets either... but if there’s enough of us out there, they won’t discount for you!

Good article!

I had a 94' B4000. I loved that truck

Moral of the story: Don’t be so quick to throw away your old junk.

Hi ‘Owner of Northwest Arkansas Mercedes Dealership’ !! Welcome to Jalopnik!

Not a great analogy for your defense of dealers lol MOST people are dumbasses, not just some. I’d say too many dealers are scummy, that’s why people are willing to go to the high volume low pressure places like carvana and carmax. They’d rather not deal with the shitty sales pitches and pressure tactics. Even the good…

RIF* error. Yes, the dealership. If you send something to Subject Matter Experts, and they fail in such basic ways, they should be held liable.

MAKE AMERICA SHIFT AGAIN!

South Park did an episode making fun of it called “Go Fund Yourself” 

Play dumbass games, win dumbass prizes.

“we spend anywhere between 5 and 10 hours per week shuffling parking”

I bought this on Saturday to see if it’d make a fun commuter car from the burbs into the city.

Yeah, whatever happens with the Grand Tour, we just need more James May.

IT would have been cooler to see him have to unbox it from a Tamiya box.

Fuck you. If they were already there and there were no pending emergency calls it probably took them all of 45 seconds to smash the driver side window, put in neutral and push it out of the way. Even though the guy was most likely rich, it would be a little bright spot when the owner came back to a destroyed home…