One of the leading reasons that people sell FJ Cruisers (and most often buy 4Runners) is because they get old enough to start having kids, and then go crazy with their kids in kid seats in the back of the FJ. The FJ’s rear door hinges at the back, not the front, which means that in a parking lot the two doors form a…

You must not be in the US.

With the 4Runner likely to grow a bit in next gen it’ll probably end up bigger than the lc300 or possibly end up just being reskin of the lc300.

It’s an article about who’s winning in the car auction space, when writing about the Superbowl you don’t mention the 4th (or worse) place team just because the coach used to be a commentator on your network.

The American car-buying public has been conditioned for generations to think that the process of buying a car is to walk onto a car dealership full of cars, pick the one that most closely matches their wants/needs and then argue with an idiot in a suit for 4 hours over how much they’re going to pay for it.

I wonder if DeMuro will be sad you didn’t mention his site here.

If you have a modern car that rarely pops up on Barrett Jackson / Mecum, you know why BaT is superior:

Brother-in-law reserved his on day 1, picked it up 3 months ago for MSRP.

It’s pointless to compare the Bronco this year to the Wrangler: first year, supply chain issues, etc. This is clickbait nonsense.

Since Thursday, wildfires have been raging in Colorado in an area northwest of Denver, between Boulder and the state’s capital.

Question I was asked:

I wasn’t implying that the truck would roll to a stop on I-70 east of the Red Rocks exit, but that the driver had 3-4 minutes of “not barreling down a steep curvy mountain pass” to do something better with his truck than ram it into stopped traffic. If we’ve already established that the driver doesn’t know how to use…

I’ve read elsewhere that his CDL was provisional for just the state of Texas at the time of the accident.  And I’m sure he’s not the first questionably trained truck driver to get put on the road.

I’m indifferent to the debate about it. My frustration with this entire story is with the journalistic incompetence of not giving the full context for why he was sentenced so harshly. The coverage seems to focus on contrasting a trivial mechanical failure to an over-the-top punishment, but they’re downplaying the…

The brakes on Aguilera-Mederos’ semi-truck failed, and he crashed into stopped traffic, killing four people.

It’s a federal interstate that thousands of trucks drive on each day. The issue isn’t that the road is too steep, it’s that the driver was young, inexperienced, under-trained and likely not fluent enough in English to read the signs. Do we even want this person driving a semi truck in town?

And everyone in the paddock had been told beforehand the goal was to finish under green.

but why was he put on such a route, with no assistance, with little english skills, and the company walks away free from liability

Looking at the topology now it’s not “perfectly flat” but it feels flat compared to what you just drove down. You basically come out of a fast winding downhill and end up on a wide, straight road on the far western edge of Denver. There’s a number of large fields on this stretch that he could have driven his truck…

I assume both manual and automatic trucks have the ability to down-shift, and that a driver is required to know how to do it on whatever equipment he’s driving.