Says the guy who complained about porpoising and had a team push hard for rule changes to address it.

IDK, maybe I’m just dumb; but I am 100% surprised that Ford has more revenue than GM, even if it’s just a small amount more. If I had had to guess before reading this, I would have said GM makes like 25% more revenue than Ford.

Have you sat in one? Cause that isn’t true. Yes, there is tons of overlap, but the Chevy’s generally go lower spec’d while the GMCs go higher. There is a reason the Tahoe runs from the mid $50s to about $80k and Yukons low $60s to about $100k. Yukons come standard with a few more features and have a decent amount more…

After hearing about the nightmare it was for my coworker to have Chevy fix his 2017 2500 Duramax with less than <50k miles this past summer, I’m never buying a modern diesel. The DPF and some other emissions stuff went kaput and Chevy could not locate the parts to replace/fix it under warranty. They refused to use…

CT5-V Blackwing.

If you watch the video, they pay like $1900/month in rent. Most of their problems seem to come from getting in debt, then ruining their credit with a bankruptcy, then immediately taking on more debt with crazy high interest. The $35k Charger becomes like $55k after you factor in the interest he is paying. His wife’s…

I mean, I do agree with the sentiment on some level; it’s more often than not, poor taste to objectify people. But there is a difference when you objectify the masses vs a group that has traditionally been excluded, stigmatized, and discriminated against with their involvement in the sport largely isolated to those…

Part of me wonders if the IRA is gonna end up like the chicken tax. Not many foreign manufacturers opened up truck plants here in the US and we miss out on cool global trucks because then become uncompetitively priced; is the same gonna happen for some EVs?

That’s great and all, but it looks to still have nearly the same bullshit interior that stopped me from even considering a MK8 R after I spent 5 minutes in it. This is coming from a VAG fanboy whose had multiple VWs and grew up with a dad who had multiple VWs and Audis. Golf R’s don’t have all that much competition,…

Or is a large part of it that these companies have lobbied the government to make laws that make these things less appealing. A large problem here is loose regulations on trucks and SUVs meaning Ford doesn’t have to really try all that hard to make them more fuel efficient compared to smaller cars. It’s a big reason…

If you want to get super specific Apple still pays more position-to-position in similar cost of living areas. Just take a look at the software engineers and computer science positions. A big reason the software on modern cars is worse than tech companies is because they don’t pay the software engineers what tech…

The total compensation number is a bit misleading as most people think that means wages. It means wages plus every other direct employee expense like healthcare, retirement, allowances for PPE, unemployment insurance, their share of federal/state taxes, the free lunch you get before Thanksgiving, etc etc.

Compare how the big-3 pay their factory workers to Apple.

So because the XJ shares with the Comanche, does that mean a Pilot, Tucson, Outback, and Escape/Bronco Sport are SUVs because they also share with the Ridgeline, Santa Cruz, Baja, and Maverick? All of those chassis were designed as an CUV first, and then transformed into truck. A few of those are even off road focused.

I owned one for 6 long years. You’re still then stuck with a truck that has absolutely no grunt below 3500 rpm. The programming was only half the problem; the car engine was the other half. Yeah, once you ring it out it actually scoots pretty well, but a truck shouldn’t require so many revs to do ANYTHING.

The XJ is more SUV than the Astro? The Astro is BoF and literally based on the S10 frame & chassis. The XJ unibody was developed for the XJ and then turned into the trucklet Comanche.

Not only that, but the Safari pretty much shared a chassis with the S10.

Exactly, the real stick in the eye would have been charging a grand for the normal wheel.

I get that some people can tolerate VW’s current infotainment, but it has completely stopped me from even considering any VW. I’ve owned multiple VWs from Passat to Golf R. I was fully intent on being an idiot and blindly paying over sticker for a MK8 R until I sat in the MK8 GTI. I didn’t even follow through with a…

I’ll give the cliché boomer answer. Tri-Fives sold by the millions for a reason. They perfectly reflected the American 1950's of postwar optimism, everyman achievability, rock and roll, powerful V8, style, comfort, yaddah yaddah yaddah. It’s like the example when it comes to the whole Americana marketing schtick.