Mirrors are required for towing water skiers or tubers, unless you have a lookout facing backward.

Huh?  I thought these vans were made by Nissan?

What a yoke!

First Gear

This diesel engine is the same one that GM uses in their Coloranyon trucks, except they put their own emissions package on it and changed a couple simple parts to make the engine more reliable.

The point of my post is that the passenger, not the driver, is ALSO locked out of the system. Whether you’re ignorant enough to be driving and fiddling with it and get caught doing so should not be a reason the mfr or govt implements it.

Yeah, but I had some older 70s and 80s cars that would pit out plenty of heat in subzero temos at high speeds. OTOH, they had huge inefficient iron engine blocks that could really hold the heat.

Joey

Ref Tesla:

This applies to many cars, but not being able to adjust the navigation when en route is horrible.  I understand it is to keep the driver from fiddling with it while driving, but it also means the passenger cannot update your route, etc., until the vehicle is stopped.  Nanny protection gone too far.

The HVAC on many Hondas, specifically the V6 models. Although it’s a great V6 engine (the design is going on 26 years old now), I think, being aluminum, it can’t hold enough heat to effectively transfer heat through the heater core and into the cabin. So it takes a lot longer than it should to heat up the cabin,…

The front seats in a Ram pickup are pretty cushy, but the back seats are horrible. That being said, the secondary vibrations emanating from a body-on-frame truck design does get tiring after a few hours.

I really watched it more for the cars than the personalities.  That's why I liked them using 80s cars.  We already know pretty much everything about all the cars made in the last 20 years.

Is it as good as the original TGA (with Foust, Ferrara and Rutledge)?  I loved how those guys played with 1980s vehicles.

Assembled in the U.S. anyway. Lotsa parts coming from outside the U.S. for some of those trucks (that are higher on the list).

Yup, this is basically what I said in the comments section the other day from the “What’s the most American car” article. Ridgeline was number one for a few years, then Ranger beat it for a year or two, now Ridgeline is back to #1 truck.

These came on the scene before the four-wheeled ATVs, because it was much cheaper to mfr a three-wheeler, and they were lighter (you could “wheelie” some of them). If you were a skilled rider, you could take them on the same side hills as a four-wheeler.  If you were light enough, you could even float some of them…

Ridgeline is one of the best things Honda made. The Gen1 has polarizing looks, but if you can get past that, you will be rewarded with one sweet machine.

My brother still uses his Honda three-wheeler on the farm, mostly when his Polaris machines are in the shop (which is quite often). That old Honda just keeps running, despite getting an oil change once every five or ten years. The battery went out about three decades ago, so he just kick-starts it every time. Many folk…

The 5-speed auto as found in the ‘99-’01 Odyssey, ‘00-’01 Accord and ‘00-’01 Prelude. It just didn’t hold up behind their V6. If you buy a Honda, you can’t go wrong with one of their slick manual transmissions... probably why the take rate is so high on the new Integra.