Okay, but “42% of Cruze and Focus owners” only means like 12 customers still bought a small car. This is a misleading report because it posts big percentage numbers but only for specific models, not the brand as a whole. The Cruze and Focus likely represented less than 10% of the brand’s sales, so who cares about the…

I’m just curious where all the C8 haters are at. Everybody complaining about how big the center console is in the C8 and how isolated the passenger is in the cabin, but crickets in the case of this Ferrari

GM tests every vehicle they make in all weather conditions. Yes, that means they still winter test ZR1 Corvettes, ZL1 Camaros, and CTS-Vs. The size of those snow tires is pretty comical

Okay boomer

You’re right. I guess I should have phrased it, When’s the last time you’ve had to replace a headlight on your brand new car, and it wasn’t covered by insurance? Almost nobody with LED headlights has to replace them out of pocket. They’re either in an accident and it’s covered by insurance, or they go out for some…

when’s the last time you’ve had to replace the headlight on a brand new car?

I used to make and install the tools these operators are fucking up, and now I go run process and quality control IN PLANTS for most major US auto manufacturers and suppliers, fixing the tolerances these operators thought they were qualified to adjust. 10 years of experience in total on on both the supplier and OEM…

Don’t get mad at me because you peaked early in life

GM had an influx of young talent. But when they laid of 7,000 engineers last winter, guess who had to go. All those young, forward thinking engineers making $75k/year were too expensive to keep around as they have to continue paying the, less accepting of change, less efficient, older engineers making $125k/year. It…

An apprentice plumber is an unskilled position in a skilled trade. With education and training and experience it becomes a skilled position. You have yet to tell me what sets a line worker apart from the rest of the minimum wage labor force. In terms of credentials or required prior experience THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE.…

blue tinted intake manifold*

Insure them, park them at the end of your driveway, and I’ll run into them on my way home from work today. My truck is at the point that I’d get more from insurance than I would if I tried to sell it, so it’s a win-win really. Plus I wouldn’t have to see them go untouched and unmoved every day on my way to and from…

lol how easy is a company supposed to make bleeding a clutch? Not everything is supposed to be as easy as changing an air filter and wiper blades.

If the windshield wiper motor from an Impala was repurposed to do something other than wipe the windshield, that would be interesting information. This isn’t really an engineering marvel or anything, it’s just clever to use something that is already designed, engineered, sourced, and durability tested for a trick…

Just because there isn’t a bleed/refill procedure provided to customers doesn’t mean there isn’t a service procedure for replacing parts. You think they’d design a totally closed system and not have any way to service it? Most modern cars don’t have transmission dipsticks. Does that mean transmissions are impossible…

This sounds like one of those stories that starts off “I asked an AI bot to write...”

Is it possible that PSA-FCA doesn’t axe any brands themselves, but sells a few instead? 

Straight from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

Yeah I only said plane without wings because of the turbine, I fully understand that this vehicle was not intended to fly. It’s very much the opposite, it’s meant to stay firmly on the ground. Getting airborne would not be good lol But you can’t graft wings on pretty much anything and make it fly. It might lift for a…

or even a “stock car” in NASCAR lol those are just as “stock” as the bloodhound