4)They could know that the car you pointed out has problems, but doesn’t want to tell you outright. I’ve tried to silently push people away from problem cars, simply because I don’t want them inevitably coming back and being angry at me.

She had been working hard and wanted to reward herself with a car she actually wanted.

I’m surprised Jalopnik staff wouldn’t also point how important aircraft wreckage is understanding the causes of an incident, no matter how tiny or seemingly insignificant that part might be. The exhaustive investigations into every event are what makes the aviation industry so safe, and tampering with that wreckage…

I was mildly looking at a Ford Flex about 10 years ago, and I asked if it had a reverse camera. The salesman pointed to the rear window washer and said “Yep, got the camera right here”.

I pointed out that was a window washer nozzle and then walked over to the higher trim Flex parked right next to it and pointed out the…

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Cool, if Brad actually took the Y “four-wheeling”, I’ll be sure to let you know, because none of those photos were anything but gravel roads...

Cool, but it might have been nice to see how that interior gets used in the real world: how well it carries a pet in the back, can you toss a set of wheels in the back you picked up off Facebook, etc. 

I saw a Mach-E in person. It does NOT look better. It’s one of those rare cars that look much better in photos than reality. In reality, it looks like someone had an explosive fart in an Escape. It was disappointing, as I too thought the Mach-E looked great in press photos.

For every joker in a King Ranch, there’s 20 commuting in an 2005 Civic...

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…

Relevant:

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…