It’s industry standard for magazines, yes. But for example C&D almost always beat the claimed manufacturer times, and it’s often because of the rollout. This is claimed from the manufacturer.

So, in order to get the range capacity of a normal truck, you need to permanently reduce the ability to actually be a truck? At least make it flat so you can use the whole bed still.

Even if it’s late to local news though, HOW do people not know about this? I mean seriously, I go to Google on my phone and a few news links show up below the search bar that I might give a short glance to the headlines, and it shows up there. If I had a Kia or was looking for a car and saw Kia thefts on a headline,…

They’re in demand because people are supid and only look at the price. I swear no one watches the news anymore or does even a tiny bit of research. Thefts, engine failures/replacements, shitty dealers and service, they’re around for the same reason The General is...

The vast majority of cars for the past 20 years have had immobilizers. It’s something in your car that you can’t see, and won’t even notice unless it actually prevents a theft. It’s like an airbag, you never see it or even know for sure it wasn’t left out until you need it. It’s been long enough that it’s an assumed…

They’ll still be around, people are for some reason still buying them like crazy. I hope they get a Takata or Dieselgate-sized judgment for this though.

You can stick in the MB family and get a 2017 C43 (or a 2016 C450) for under $30k. Still AWD, but a solid 3.0 TT V6 and lighter so should be easier on consumables and mileage. Sporty, plenty quick, and they ride pretty well for a midsize as long as you don’t go for the 19 inch wheels.

Yeah, and I get that it’s partially on you if you still bought a Kia after all the news out of your own ignorance/carelessness (who HASN’T heard about this!?) but anyone who had one of these mid-2010s cars since new or even since 2020 is especially screwed.

While this is a stupid decision on his part, definitely fuck Kia. Their prolonged inaction on this is causing real harm. I get that we can get into victim blaming pretty easily here and it’s ultimately the criminals’ faults for the theft, Kia outright failed to provide even a low level of protection. It’s like if…

It’s all connected. Police violence and the pushback against police departments caused lower staffing, and caused remaining officers to be unable/unwilling to handle enforcing actual crime that’s been happening. Combine that with policing for profit and you get more patrols on the highway writing tickets instead of…

I have no interest in really anything JDM other than maybe the Figaro or a manual Sera, but I’m really excited for some of the late-90s to mid-2000s Alfas to come of age. I don’t see them being super expensive and more obscure since they didn’t get video game exposure here like Skylines and others did. Saw my first…

As much as I like the Grand Tour, I enjoy their other individual stuff just as much. Hammond’s island thing was a bit weird but I love Clarkson’s Farm and James May’s cooking show and travel series. It really brings out their personalities and the unscripted interactions with other people on the show and the camera…

I was immediately thinking Mazda as a close second to Alfa since they’re like BMW used to be (in a slightly different way obviously), good quality cars that may be slightly more expensive than the competition, but making up for it by being much better built, fun to drive, and slightly faster.

I do wonder if other expert at everything types that actually knows nothing about cars other than what they found on msn.com will start asking this now that more EVs are out and they all have direct drives?

The outback is fine, but where did I mention that? I said Crosstrek or Rogue. The Crosstrek is an anemic slightly lifted econo-hatch driven by people who think off-roading is driving over some granola they spilled in their driveway, and the Rogue is a generic soft-roader that in Nevada is probably FWD but “SUV” so…

Why not make it start at $50k? It would make the 200k mile ones sold for $20k in ten years make sense...

Oh yay, another guy that claims all evidence of modern Alfa’s reliability is “anecdotal” while parroting the tired claim that they break down all the time.

Let me guess, it was an idiot in their Crosstrek or Rogue that thought because their car was in an “outdoorsy” car commercial and thought they could make it offroad. And the guy that turned around in their huge truck had a Raptor they’d never taken offroad before and got scared.

For me it’s gotta be Alfa. No stupid styling shouting at everyone how fast or world-saving you are, just beautiful sheetmetal around a fantastic driver’s car.

Tesla may do it differently, but most of the time the body shop is repairing a lot of the mechanical parts too.