I think you’ve seen to many movies and interacted with too few people. Rednecks in Idaho? I think you’re imagination was running wild.

I mean. He's completely right. 

I don’t think I’ve ever owned a garage door narrower than 8 feet. I’m sure some full size trucks might not fit mirrors all the way out. But am mdx is pretty narrow comparatively. You must have a really narrow garage door. Very careful parking!

I don’t think Hyundai buyers or Genesis buyers care about the Halo car. Honestly I doubt most Lexus buyers know what the LFA is or would even recognize one on the street. I suspect Genesis buyers are the same.

Not simple abs. But a combination electohydraulic MC system like a lot of modern cars have. The one I know most about is my 4R. It has full electronic pressure control for the boost. But it goes far beyond just boost and ABS cutout circuits. It can also apply full braking without any physical push of the brake pedal.…

The bad advice often given by people claiming to be “financial experts” who are generally not good at math (college finance degrees only take very basic math) is to borrow on something like a car at low interest rate and then use the money to invest because on average you can earn higher return in the market.

I was talking about any interruption in income that’s relied on to make the payments. Not rising rates on the loan. The rising rates will crush the housing market and some other industries that have grown artificially based on cheap borrowing. The ensuing recession will put a bunch of Americans out of work. The ones…

Even with a 0% fixed loan. If you have a loan on your car, and times get tight - you can lose your car. If you can’t afford to pay cash, you can’t afford the car. Even if you don’t actually pay cash. If you don’t have $80k in free cash in the bank - you can’t afford that Tahoe.

You need some therapy. Or maybe just some growing up?

Ralph Nader was kinda bummed too. 

Ask the uighers how it’s going... Comparing Amazon warehouse workers is really fucking stupid. 

Most hybrids are brake by wire. Toyota, Ford, GM etc. I haven’t checked but id guess most EVs are also. And almost all light duty trailers are.

It’s still good advice for most people. When the bottom falls out of the current artificiality low interest rate binge, lots of people are going to lose their cars. And jobs. And houses. 

I thought the same. Dealers around me will offer big discounts for signing up for a high interest loan. Basically with a handshake deal to not pay off for 3 months or whatever the minimum term is before the dealer gets a back charge. For $2k discount, I'd consider it.

I think the crisis is real. But the car loans are just a small symptom.

I know one thing scarier than the car loans - is the software behind this website. It takes a pretty crazy amount of effort to crash Chrome browser with ads. Somehow they figured it out.

Drive by wire does scare me a little bit. Frankly, so does brake by wire. But it’s common and reliable.

There’s a YouTube video made by a Toyota product testing engineer. I was kind of shocked by some of the things that he described doing. For example he said they used to test the automatic transmissions by driving forward, and at some speed I’m not sure - they would slam the transmission into reverse and see what would…

This.

Carmakers give us a pair of information data points that gives pretty limited real world driveability information. Peak horse power is meaningful. It tells us how much work the engine can perform at full output. Sometimes that's a big deal.