This. I also grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere, Canada. Drove grid roads my whole life, and the most ground clearance I’ve had in a car I own is a stock Honda CRX, while the least I’ve had is 7/8" in an AE86, and I’ve never bottomed out on grid roads. I hate that people think you need more ground clearance if…

Stock car racers used to hate them. Some old-fashioned guys still refuse to run them. When Dale Earnhardt died, the HANS device was being used by most drivers in NASCAR already. Dale even made his son wear them, so he knew their value, but he still refused to wear them. As we all know, he was ultimately killed in a…

You’re not gonna put in for reverse how the first Indy 500 was 107 years ago today?

Hartley’s crash at Monaco was scary. Luckily, there was a runoff there. A brake failure could have been much worse.

NotLewisHamilton is right. The sound of crashing a car is one you never forget. Along with the moment right after the car stops. Sitting in the car, with no noise but your ears ringing, and the world seems to come to a standstill.

To be fair, it was the ‘60s, and although arc welding was pretty standard in a manufacturing sense, Oxyacetylene welding was pretty much the norm in most lower-level fabrication shops and repair shops. So electrically welded can be advertised, although it wasn’t much to brag about.

The Japanese auto industry pretty much proves that the “fake it ‘till you make it” mentality can work.

This should be the motto for the Canadian automotive industry. “Rusty but still running fine”

Seriously, though. What the hell’s going on over there, America?

This is peak automotive journalism. We can only go down from here.

I think he’s talking about these things hitting other people. The safety of the UTV itself is not the issue here, it’s the danger he’s observing that’s being caused to people on bikes and quads.

Radical theory time. It’s an imported Audi S2 sedan. Aren’t these legal stateside yet?

Automakers need to take more responsibility for their defective parts, imo. The fact that the owner of this vehicle was even considered to be at fault for a design issue from Ford is unacceptable.

I’d get a Nissan Cube. I’ve always had a soft spot for them and their outlandish proportions.

Spinning a negative light on a website that would be beneficial for any honest media outlet kind of shows that you might not be an honest media outlet.

I guess that’s fair, and probably the reason the Focus/Fiesta won’t be sold here any longer.

So, seating height?

What the hell is going on with the black plastic on the bottom? Is that supposed to fool people into thinking it has more ground clearance? Because putting reflectors on it on the back bumper kinda shatters that illusion.

This is literally what city cars are for. What is the advantage of buying this over a Focus or Fiesta if you live in a dense, urban area?

Ha.