Your logic of ABS and stability control being enhancements also applies to mirrors and the like.  While it has gotten worse over the years, even older cars had blind spots that no amount of mirror adjustment and head turning could eliminate.  These camera systems enhance your ability to view these areas whether it be…

The reason that taxes aren’t in the advertised price is because there are over 12,000 different sales tax jurisdictions in the USA. For a restaurant with multiple locations the prices could very well be different based on where the restaurant is located. That’s why advertising for most any item just includes the base…

I understand where you are coming from, however, what incentive does Dodge have to do all that? Yes, the platform is old, yes, the platform is heavy, and yes, those hinder it in terms of performance and fuel economy. But, the car is selling better now than ever. If the sales started seeing a slump I could understand t…

1st gear: So are we saying that the big 3 stole were inspired by Porsche’s business model and applied it to trucks?

Even interior colors and packages eventually get axed based on demand in order to simplify the supply chain, but color options and the like are much simpler to change on the fly.  In order to offer a manual transmission it has to be engineered, tested, and qualified.  So even adding it to a different engine requires…

All of that would require massive investments in a new chassis architecture. The Challenger was based on the Charger’s architecture with the consequence that it will be larger than the competition. This reduced development costs by tens of millions if not more. The larger and practical rear seat also becomes an…

The brewing process involves boiling the water which will kill any type of contamination that could possibly get in the water.

The issue isn’t the pure speed so much as the fact of the other drivers. In Germany the other drivers are conditioned to look for and expect the occasional driver doing high speeds and know how to react. The same can’t be said for Japan where other drivers on the road would not be expecting him doing the high rate of…

Interestingly enough the 3rd gen Camaro was considered a great handling car during its era.

My Costco is closer to $0.20-$0.30 cheaper and sometimes more when you are referring to 93 octane.  Thankfully for me it is not out of my way to go and is Top Tier certified.

The F-150 is a body on frame design. It sounds like Rivian is essentially taking the body from the F-150 and grafting it to a Rivian frame which in addition to the chassis structure also contains the batteries and motors.

You haven’t been around minivan and truck people.

It’s because auto reviewers have essentially demanded it over the last 10 to 15 years. They compare a pedestrian brand performance model to a base model luxury car that costs the same and then complain that a $XX thousand dollar car should have a nice interior. Or, they compare the pedestrian performance model to the…

You are correct.

My wife loves to name her cars. She was trying to come up with a name when we bought our 2017 Acadia Limited so I named it Jimmy for her.

It’s actually recommended that you leave a gap between you and the car in front of you. In the event of a rear end collision you will be at fault and liable for the car in front of you if the car behind you pushes you into the car in front of you.

I have noticed that a few lights around where I live have started doing the “protected left turns” at the end of the light cycle.  I have found that it really helps the issue by allowing all of the traffic going strait to get out of the way of the people trying to turn left.

Here is a really interesting story regarding the history of the first ever NASCAR to break the 200 mph barrier.

We live in a modern capitalistic world so what is the problem with statement?

Companies have never existed to make products.  All companies exist to make money, without which, they will all eventually shrivel up and die.  In order to make money they have to provide a product of some kind so in essence the product is the byproduct of the desired to make money.