I just wish they’d taken that “lets make something outdoorsy!” ambition and made a K5-esque Wrangler competitor or something with some proper capabilities. Oh wait they did, the H2, nvm that wasn’t a good idea either.

That’s fair, apologies if I came off rude. I guess the Aztec is one of if not the only oddball car that does absolutely nothing for me. It’s like they took everything I don’t like in cars (front-wheel-drive platform specifically designed for badge-engineering, meh-V6 connected to a meh-4 speed, cars pretending to be…

So what you’re saying is it didn’t look good then and it didn’t age well but automotive design went into the shitter so it at least looks contemporary. 

I just don’t think they’re particularly interesting. It’s the embodiment of over-marketing, under-engineering and function-follows-form design. They decided to market something to the outdoorsy crowd so they had a committee design something “sporty and active” that turned out terrible, stuck it on a minivan platform…

Why? It’s terrible. It’s a crappy crossover that’s trying way too hard to stand out. It’s also incredibly bland. Ugly does not make it not bland. It’s just the predecessor to the Gran Coupes and Crosstour garbage where they give an SUV raked rear glass to make it “sporty.” A GTP swap won’t make it interesting either,…

Let me introduce you to the concept of a Roof Top Tent.
This way, you can buy a high-quality tent made by a company that specializes in making tents for what is most likely less money Honda would charge for the option of putting a crappy Honda-branded tent on your CRV.

Except it’s not. The fun of overlanding is the ‘go anywhere’ part not the ‘sleep in my car’ part. 

“I’d be paying much less than the asking price by the time the title got signed” is what ‘crack pipe’ means.

That V8 does at least have some objective advantages over the Taco V6 haha, as opposed to my 3.9 that was designed by Buick in 1960 pushing out an astonishing 180 horsepower

That is true. As we work with smaller and smaller increments of time a PDK from 2018 will probably not feel as dated in 20 years or even 40 years as one of those early Ferrari or Aston single clutch automated manuals feels now so that element is being removed. It gets less objective but it’s still a skill that adds…

This second right now is the absolute best any automatic in any car on the road will feel. As technology moves on, they will feel more and more dated until what was once a marvel of engineering and technology will feel old and clunky compared with the latest and greatest. As long as you keep a manual in good working…

Hahaha my mom just recently found out that the 2nd-gen 4Runner I drove in college(and across the country several times) didn’t have airbags and she was furious. I didn’t lie or mislead her about it.. she never asked and it honestly didn’t occur to me as something that could be an issue. When I bought my Range Rover…

I’ve got as big as a soft spot for Alfa as anyone, I’ve owned and spent plenty of time working on a 164. This is unacceptable. I have a beater 1990 Range Rover that’s spent the entire second half of its life as a ski and off road rig so we are not talking about a pristine or well kept example here. Mile for mile my…

It’s impossible to tell off road! I’ve had a few flats on the trail(all because the tires they ship on the Tacoma TRD OR are garbage)and really only noticed because of TPMS. I let one get all the way down to 10 because we were SO CLOSE to camp and I wanted to just deal with it then and honestly besides the number…

The software that runs these systems is incredibly complex, there’s some very particular set of parameters being set a very certain way that’s triggering these. It’s more than just driving on a bumpy road, of course they did that and these sold very well and are seeing heavy use off-pavement with a relatively small…

Stuff like this is what makes a BMW so much harder to work on than a Toyota though. Toyotas are designed to be easily serviced whereas BMWs tend to have a lot of “lifetime” intervals on items that are then not designed to be serviceable at all, which makes servicing them difficult(or expensive if you’re taking it to…

This. As far as personal devices go(proper computers are still needed for many professions) I use my phone on an hourly basis and my laptop for a relatively small amount of time 3 or 4 days a week. If I wasn’t a software engineer by profession and didn’t want/need a non-work computer for personal projects etc I could…

Me too. I was waiting for this release to consider upgrading because I’m a fan of bezeless designs and absolutely not willing to spend $1000 on a phone. I still am considering the XR, but this article made me want to puke.

Haha thanks for the reassurance!! I’m not terribly worried about the job itself, it will be one of the bigger projects I’ve taken on but not really outside the scope of my experience as a shade tree mechanic. Everything seems pretty easy to reach and head gasket replacements for Rover V8s are very well documented. I’m…

No no no stop scaring me. I have a Range Rover Classic that seems to be getting a little bit of exhaust gas in the coolant. Runs perfectly besides a little bit of excess pressure getting vented through the expansion tank cap and a bit of exhaust smell in the coolant, almost any owner would notice nothing amiss. Pending…