The BMW turn signal thing genuinely baffles me, not because of how they work but because how people are so clueless. I get if it takes a couple of days/weeks to get it, but you own the car. You need to be completely obtuse to truly not learn your car over years of ownership. And they always bring up lane changes but…

You only get that benefit if you’re able to park near the stadium though. No advantage if you need to stay at a campsite outside of town.

I’m sure he does, he mentions Jalopnik sometimes in his videos/podcast and references articles from here sometimes. And I’m assuming the reason he’s not on here anymore is just time. He’s a lawyer, author, and has a youtube channel that’s also a podcast that’s twice daily videos. Others are similar, Matt Farah has his…

Honestly though if you’re traveling for weekend stuff like that what do you need beyond clothes and tailgate gear that a normal sedan/wagon can hold? The RV necessitates a lot more stuff just for the purposes of being an RV that you live out of, if you’re staying in a hotel you don’t need to bring your own pots and…

I know lots of people who are retirement age or getting there that spent way too much on either a class A RV or a trailer plus a truck to pull it that ended up getting used only a couple of times per year. My grandparents bought a class A, then downgraded to a Sprinter Chassis, then back to class A because they wanted…

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?