Speaking to a larger scale of your same argument, I could never figure out why one of the Big Three or Hyundai/Kia didn’t buy out Tesla when they had the chance, and instead chose to go it alone on their own battery tech and feeble 3rd party charger partnerships.

What crowd exactly? My grandpa has an iPhone, does that mean he’s part of this Apple “crowd” you speak of?

Also, who cares what other people think? Get whatever device best suits your needs, whatever brand it might be. Being so worried about what others might think of you over some thing speaks to a much bigger…

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The Portland area dealers have been selling lifted Outbacks, CrossTreks, and Foresters for years now. There are several local companies like Primitive Racing and Rallitek that supply the lift kits (typically just taller coilovers with some leveling shims and brackets) to the dealers who install them on brand new cars…

Driving next to the Gaza Strip during one of the Hamas rocket attacks was a little unnerving. I was driving my rental car on the freeway near Gaza, started hearing explosions, then all of the traffic on the freeway started driving a lot faster.

If Taycans were $45k, I’m sure you’d see just as many of them as Teslas.

This is exactly why my wife likes her new Leaf so much. It’s not half bad to drive with all the torque on tap, it has decent features for the money, and it “just works”. We’ve never had an issue with it other than when she left the door ajar and drained the 12V battery, but you can jump it as you would with an ICE…

As many others have said, fleet surveillance is nothing new, and while you don’t have to like it, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for Amazon - who operates a VERY large fleet of vehicles - to do it as well.

True, though iconography is a language unto itself, and a laughably large population has no clue what a lot of the modern warning icons mean. Take the TPMS icon for example. There’s a reason the industry quickly went from simply flashing an icon to actually showing the pressure in each tire on the gauge cluster…

Read the last line. Linking to an online database that can be updated quickly is important I think. Very few cars have over-the-air updates, though that will change. This also centralizes the knowledgebase. This way, the manufacturer can not only have the most up-to-date service information all in one place, but can…

Get rid of the light entirely, and just have a message on one of the mandatory vehicle displays (all 2019+ cars must have a backup camera, so there’s a screen somewhere in the driver’s view) that says what the problem is in plain English “Cylinder 4 misfire”, “ignition system error”, and then flashes a QR code on the…

Is this really what Jalopnik has become? Who cares what some other blog says? It’s not like they have anymore journalistic integrity than you do.

If there is anything good to take away from this, however, it’s that the new Model S finally has a gauge cluster. Tesla has moved the driver information out of the center screen to more effectively use that real estate. A simple glance down to check out things like your speed and your cruise control status is much…

You try controlling a car at that speed and see if you change your tune.

I know, right? Forums could be a little messy UI-wise, but everything was methodically laid out in sub-forums so you could pretty easily search through those and find whatever you needed.

Facebook groups just put everything in mostly order of posting, with no organization whatsoever. How is that a better solution?

No tragedies, and no, I never stole, or even damaged their cars. They just wanted me to focus on school, and putting my summer earnings toward room and board, rather than car insurance and maintenance.

Not saying I fully agree with their tactic, but it was what it was at the time, and I was able to get my engineering…

I just can’t respect a car enthusiast who didn’t buy their first car until they were 19. Any true gearhead has a vehicle by the time the are old enough to drive.

Yep. Used PB Blaster for years. Works great.

As previously said, I doubt they could cool a Hellcat engine in a Wrangler engine bay (the Grand Cherokees have had V8-sized engine bays for ages).

It’s definitely geared towards the bulk of their current buyers: suburban moms who need their pumpkin spice lattes ASAP and there’s a few wet leaves on the roads.