There are no coming battery replacement issues. A properly designed EV battery will last 300k miles, and there are a lot of examples on the road that have already reached that mark.

I think the Taurus was shit by today’s standards, but it was a pretty big success when it was first released. Detroit desperately needed an answer to the Japanese Camry/Accord (also FF) and the Taurus provided it. It was actually the best-selling car in the U.S. at one point.

I’ve seen plenty of stout track cars with solid rear axles, but it’s far from ideal- especially when they were replacing the entire drivetrain and could have put absolutely anything back there. There’s a reason why Ford eventually went to an IRS for the Mustang. Lack of rear camber adjustment is a big limiting factor…

That solid rear axle is rather disappointing.

A U.S. CEO can certainly screw things up too, but I don’t think GM’s Carplay decision is even close to the existential problem facing Stellantis. 

20 years ago, if you asked me to picture a Harley rider I would have pictured someone in their 40s. Today, if you asked me to do the same I would picture someone in their 60s. I strongly suspect the sales demographics backs up that aging trend. They are appealing to a smaller and smaller base of ever more fanatical…

Interesting as a nostalgia trip or ironic hipster mobile, but I can’t fathom paying what this thing cost new (adjusted for inflation). NP if it were priced half what it is. 

Falcon was a FR platform. You aren’t fitting the SR8 Falcon motor in a transverse FF car like the Taurus. 

For $10k, it should have had the SHO motor. 

There are tens of thousands of one-off vehicles that have been made, including ones with custom one-off chassis and engines. A vehicle of which there are a full 17 is far from “one of the rarest vehicles ever made.” Doubly so when it is just a trim package for a vehicle of which thousands were made, triply so when the…

You have to look at what would be a safe speed for the oldest 20% or so of cars on the road. “Classic” 25+ year old cars don’t make up a meaningful portion of cars on the road, but there will be a meaningful portion that are 15-20 years old.

At least some of this is a list of cars that people who drive a lot buy.

Car loans being expensive are part of what is causing prices to go down. The purchase price has to go down to keep payments in line. That, by the way, is exactly why the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to control inflation. The good news is that most are expecting the Fed to start cutting interest rates soon,…

You have to be the first person I’ve ever come across who finds the E46 their least favorite. 

In their defense, the performance envelope of the average car is way higher than it was 30 years ago. 

I’ve always thought deleting the back seats of a 4-door is pretty silly. I get it in a 2+2 where the back seats are not typically useful for carrying adults, but it seems to me if you are deleting the seats you are better off buying a car that was designed as a 2 seater in the first place.

People who file shareholder derivative suits aren’t typically true investors in the company. Often, they own only a nominal amount of stock sufficient to establish standing. The lawsuit *is* the investment.

I don’t think the trend was ever about literally sitting stone still for the whole flight. It was supposed to be about just giving up any entertainment. Sort of a “use the time to clear your mind and meditate rather than entertain yourself.” Not my cup of tea, but this is just stirring unnecessary drama.

It’s not like it’s a binary. It’s not like 70mph is safe and 71mph means a mortal threat to public safety. I agree that ticket writing shouldn’t be a for-profit business, but every law enforcement action has to have some sort of associated cost benefit analysis. You wouldn’t want your local PD to blow all of its…

I always see those signs in the middle of nowhere. I usually assumed it was code for “Don’t think you can go 100mph just because you are in the middle of nowhere and there’s nowhere for a speed trap to hide.” But I also assumed it was mostly a bluff.