One I just discovered on my new Giulia. You can’t turn off the traction control. No button, no setting, nothing for even stability control. QV models have race which allows slip, but the 2.0 cars you gotta hack in with a piggyback to disable it.

I may be in the minority but I actually liked it there. If it’s your own car you know where it is, fewer buttons on the doors, and it’s accessible to both the driver and passenger right in your line of sight.

I’ve had the same feeling about the Tacoma after driving multiple versions (not the new one though). Always comes off as basically the Nokia brick of cars, sure it’ll last forever and you’ll probably get what you paid for it when you sell because they never change, but it’s so compromised in actual…

I think normal economy car rentals probably should count but not specialty cars. I mean a Dodge Caliber can only get so much more shitty. But a supercar rental place or that Merc SLC have a long way to fall to shittiness, and as a sports car rental they do from all the abuse and the owner not caring as long as they’re…

I drove one in traffic once, the ride is so good in them but it’s absolutely hilarious what that high center of gravity does in stop/go traffic. Every time you stop, no matter how smooth you make it, makes the car rock back and forth for a good 5 seconds at least.

Driving performance of a PHEV, huh? That’s... pretty broad. PHEV performance can’t really be a benchmark for expectations when you have things like the Prius Prime on one end and the Porsche 918 on the other...

The fast turbocharged cars also don’t get to benefit from launch control in the 5-60, so the traction control isn’t looking for optimal acceleration, just kicking in to limit slip. So instead of getting a perfectly tailored launch, you’re mashing the throttle, getting big wheelspin, then having the computer cut most…

Late-2010s Subaru WRX auto.

So? They’re on $80k+ cars, and the most common car they’re on is the S-Class which is $110+.

2007-2013 S and CL-Classes had an option for granite interior trim. Yes, granite.

Mercedes has this still, but it comes out through little holes in the actual blades, and switches the side of the wiper it shoots from based on the wiper direction, so it’s always swiping immediately after and you can see through it perfectly.

Yeah when you’ve got a kid there’s no chance you’re not checking something. At the very least you’re checking a stroller, but if they’re lap-sitting you don’t get an extra carry-on but have basically two extra people’s worth of luggage with all the diapers and other stuff that comes along with them (that’s even without…

Yeah it might not get stolen, but that hack still involves breaking into the car by usually the back window, so stolen or not you could still be a target for attempted theft which would end up in a damaged car.

I know the password, 12345. Same as the combination on my luggage!

Is there any way they could defray the cost by using the carbon for something valuable? I bet there would be a market for carbon-capture lab-grown diamonds if that is possible to do, and with the markup for the diamond itself plus paying extra because it’s environmentally-friendly branded it might even be profitable?

The problem is the kids that are stealing Hyundais and Kias don’t know 1. if the vehicle is new enough to have an immobilizer, and 2. if the security fix has been done on a particular older model (from what I’ve seen not nearly enough people have gotten it done). So sadly still any Hyundai or Kia is still a target for…

No BSOD, but I’ve noticed from both cars I’ve owned/driven and from clients of mine when I sold cars that there’s weird things that happen out in the wild, not complete failures but false-positives for safety features, bugs in the systems, etc. that don’t/can’t get reported to the manufacturer. Dealers can’t do…

The new car tech issues sound similar to our dealer experience with tech issues. There needs to be a way to report bugs or weird edge-case issues to the manufacturer. Because dealers aren’t going to find a code for a weird safety false-positive or always find an error message. And even if they can, they’re not…

Yeah they got my damn click for that too...

I understand it’s common for actors to not have a license, but is it really something that would hold you back? If you want a car just get a license, it’s not that hard and you can always get an international license too to drive wherever you want.