for whatever it’s worth, I’d like to highlight that a person can acknowledge and even observe climate change as a real thing (meaning, the global climate is shifting) while also not believing that it is man made. I think this issue has gotten even more frustrating for people as this potential distinction hasn’t been…

Drove a 2015(in dash unit) and 2016(tablet style) Mazda 6 back to back when car shopping and the difference in how open it felt was immense. My CX-5 has the same mounting style as well and I really like the open uncluttered feeling and the screen is so easy to glance over at. This is a case of function over form.

“Sticking it”on the dash allows to position it higher, where you can still see the road. Integrating it in the dash requires some kind of housing that end up being intrusive, and ugly.

I stand corrected on the first point. The Accord is still a “small” car and the non integrated screen opens of the interior. You are losing the forest for the trees. Look at an overall front dashboard shot. There is a huge storage space now that they moved the whole center stack up. By not having an integrated screen,…

It’s not lazy. It’s deliberate. The first three are all on SMALL(er) cars. Integrated dash boards cramp up the interior space and add cost.

It’ll be gone in two years. 

How many JD Powers awards do you think it’s won already?

How many commercials will we have to watch where everyone fawns over the “Ferrari” until some Pat Sajack(*) wannabe rips off the camo?

Do you think they made the chassis out of Grade A or Grade B bear-cage metal?


*Probably not the correct spelling....but be honest…

Mid engine good. Big side scoop good. Square exhaust tips... bad. The whole rear of the car is a mess.

I had to re-read. Nothing of what he said was fact. Opinion, yes, but not fact.

You “Resist” types used to be against the shadowy CIA that topples foreign governments and the FBI that bugged MLK and had blackmail files on almost every semi-famous person on Earth...and now you think that they’re suddenly the good guys and Trump, the outsider is the villain. You watch multi-millionaire late-night…

Darn. If you had said “Nazi” or “Cheeto” I could have won Trump Derangement Syndrome Bingo.

He’s not going to get a nice paying gig with the main stream media by reporting non controversy and fact.

I know that Trump is a bad man, so anything he does is bad and we should disagree with, but forcing fuel economy standards wasn’t the right way to do this in the first place. Raise the fuel tax significantly like Europe does and use that money to fix the roads.  If people still want to buy 12 mpg suburbans and pay $5…

Come on now Ryan, this is shit journalism and you know it. Nowhere in the original article did Trump say to completely roll back oil conservation, let alone embrace gas guzzling vehicles.

From what I have seen, the automakers are quietly freaking out over the 2025 rule. There is no way to get the vehicles that people currently want to buy to that level of fuel efficiency and still meet 5 star crash test standards. 2020 standards are pretty much the ragged edge of what is achievable.  ....after that,…

Worked for Detroit right?  Oh wait. . . 

That’s the catch here. It always is. Everybody wants American manufacturing and American jobs, nobody wants to pay the extra premium on goods that come with that. We’ve all become accustomed to cheap foreign-made stuff. Which is it gonna be?

I am having a huge shift in my thinking. I am now willing to pony up more money for goods made in the US with demonstrably higher quality.

This. THIS THIS THIS. Here, have a star!

It’s why the authors (and therefore content) I enjoy here are getting fewer and farther in between. Tracy and Collins are about the only two I know I can safely read and only hear about cars and car things.