Yup, and besides the extra rollover risk from the additional weight most steel front and rear bumpers can have a substantial effect on accident safety. ARB is the only off road bumper manufacturer I’m aware of that actually puts in the engineering effort to design their bumpers in a way that they interact properly…

That all is fair, I’m not one of those folks who likes to whine when models lose the manual option. I wish it were different as I’ll always want my vehicles to be stick, but now that automatics aren’t terrible like they used to be I get why most people prefer the convenience if they don’t get any enjoyment out of…

I’ll sip some kool aid, someone’s finally made a reasonably priced electric car that isn’t an absolute snooze fest. Mass transportation via internal combustion isn’t sustainable in the long run, Tesla’s proved that an electric car doesn’t have to be a overstyled little blob of bland. 

Even the E36 and 1991 4Runner I used to have had very manageable clutches. Not as easy as the 2018 Tacoma I have now, but no issue at all. The first summer I learned to drive stick(which was in the E36) I was living in the suburbs on one side of Portland, Oregon and had a summer job in the suburbs on the exact…

I can never wrap my head around the traffic thing. Traffic sucks in general, it’s not like managing a clutch is some enormous task. Do people’s left leg have something else that they need to be doing? Is the mental effort to shift and listen to a podcast simultaneously just too much for them? Would they honestly…

Building a limited-run sports car is hard. Building a mainstream luxury car is even harder. Building a mass-market car in large numbers is even, even harder. Building another mass-market car after you’ve already worked through the production kinks on the first one is much easier. Tesla’s going to get closer and closer…

Actually, yes I would trust a mechanically savvy friend’s opinion of a car they’ve spent many years and miles with over an aggregation of thousands of usually uninformed opinions and a methodology that places the same weight on a technical service bulletin to fix a minor software annoyance as one to band-aid a major…

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. Still though, I’m genuinely curious if Toyota takes that kind of thing more seriously because the brand as a whole and the Tacoma, Tundra and Land Cruiser in particular enjoy the reputation and sales they do because of long term durability. Like would GM have released a TSB for…

I bought a new Tacoma in December of 2017 and have already broken 40,000 miles including hundreds of off-pavement miles without a hiccup, so I’d say it seems pretty good.

Actually, yes. Old SUVs like that are huge fun(I am admittedly semi-biased here as the owner of a beater vintage SUV) in their own way. Of course if your only metric for judging the entertainment factor is how crisply it goes around a corner they’re absolute garbage but nothing compares to the feeling of heading out…

I did, but you’ve gotta consider what website you’re on and by ‘best’ they probably mean ‘most fun or entertaining to drive’ as opposed to the objective 10 best lists you’ll find in any number of other publications.

The only people who *need* to do that are racing drivers and use purpose-built race cars to achieve those tasks. Besides the small handful of buyers who take theirs to the track or drag strip or runway racers most super cars never even get to see those numbers, besides maybe in testing.

Especially new, buying a new car as a commuter makes zero sense. Even if I buy a 10-20 year old Civic or something that shouldn’t depreciate much more I’d be up like $50 bucks tops after insurance per month, but an older car will need more maintenance than a new vehicle(especially one with super low running costs…

If you don’t understand what makes an old British sports car more fun to drive than a new (and admittedly very nice driving) Japanese sports car you should probably be reading Consumer Reports instead of Jalopnik.

I get the arguments against daily driving trucks, but if you do sometimes need a truck for whatever reason it makes the most sense to just daily it. I’ve ran the numbers a bunch of times and after insurance and added running costs etc you barely break even from gas savings, even with my 80-mile round trip daily commute…

THANK YOU! If I had a penny for every time someone told me I could’ve/should’ve gotten an F150 instead of my Tacoma... I do want four wheel drive for a real reason, my main reasons for having a truck are offroading/overlandy sort of stuff and skiing. Size is a huge factor off road and a few inches does make a real…

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You can have the Colorado with the crew cab and 6' bed(as well as the Tacoma, not sure if that was included in the any of them)

A Honda Fit will carry both more people and more things than a McLaren 720s while also burning less fuel. It is better at fitting into tight parking spaces, going up steep driveways, and making u-turns. It will last you much longer while requiring less care. Expensive cars are stupid.

Probably, but then if shifting often bothered someone they could just use 5th as their main cruising gear. Whatever though