The indirect system in my wife’s Honda has given numerous false alarms in the 7 years she has owned the car.  We are having to pull off to check tire pressures around once a month just to see if we have a leak or not.

My experience with both direct and indirect TPMS skews heavily towards preferring direct. My wife’s Honda uses an indirect system based on the ABS sensors. Anytime we have a rainstorm it will inevitably go off when in a long sweeping turn on the highway. The number of false alarms and unplanned exits to check tire…

Both my GMC and Chevrolet turn on the reverse lights when I park the vehicles, and I can honestly see it both ways. People expect a car to back up when they see those lights, but it is also nice to have that little bit of extra light when walking away/towards your car at night. Funny enough, I had the guy at the gas…

I see a few cars a week driving around with DRLs only and no taillights at night.  It’s to the point that it is almost comical, and it seems certain manufacturers (Nissan, Jeep) have it happen more often then others.  I still remember when you couldn’t see your dash at night with the headlights off.

Starred for the descriptive Abe Frohman reference.

This is definitely a trim level and not a new brand. It will be the equivalent of what Denali (Luxury trim) or more appropriately AT4 (offroad) is to GMC.

People did say a lot of negative things about gasoline cars when they were new.  They were expensive, difficult to use, and a horse and buggy was fine for many people at the time.  However, it was the market that continued to develop, refine, and cut costs to the point that there was mass adoption by the public.  The…

From my understanding they do not. The $11.3B figure comes from the federal government selling their share of GM before the valuation matched their original investment.

I am unashamed to be biased towards the black 10 spokes that were “standard” on the 2012-2015 ZL1s. Not only are they a simple, clean design, they have a small “Easter Egg” with the CAMARO logo stamped on the inner lip.

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I mean I would love to have a CTS-V Wagon as a daily, but those have also started to appreciate.  In the end, having a “less fun” daily just takes away some anxiety of upkeep and maintaining it in “perfect” condition.  It’s much easier when my fun car averages 4-5k miles per year instead of the 20k I put on my daily.

Precisely.  I bought my Camaro to keep forever.  As long as I have it, I really don’t care what I have for my daily.

Besides the XTS, which offered features unavailable on the Impala such as AWD and the twin turbo V6, I am still correct in that the majority of their sedans are on Cadillac platforms. The Sigma and Sigma II platforms were only used by Cadillac for the CTS, STS, and SRX. The Omega platform was used exclusively for the…

You do realize that the Cadillac sedans have been on their own platform pretty much since the early 2000s.  The closest they came to sharing platforms with the lower-market cars is the 6th generation Camaro being built on the Alpha platform.

And the parents who have jobs should do what? Taking vacation for a few holidays a year is much easier than a day a week from August through May.

Most people in this discussion seem to think the break0in period is for the engine only, but from my talks with GM engineers in the past it goes far beyond that. I was told that the break-in period was more for the transmission and driveline rather than the engine.

From the article.

Not in Maryland, but this happened to a car that was passing me over the crest of a hill with a cop parked at the bottom.  He immediately took the exit, and I got tagged for 19 over even though my cruise was set for 5 over.  Luckily I somehow got out of it.

“On September 1, 1979, in a regulation that also regulated speedometer and odometer accuracy, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) required speedometers to have special emphasis on the number 55 and a maximum speed of 85 mph (140km/h)“

Air is made of elemental nitrogen or N2 which is extremely stable and not very reaction.  The nitrogen in coffee beans, and pretty much anything else, is in organic molecules which are much more reactive.

There is research and newly introduced commercial products that are looking into replacing the traditional resins with more recycleable and processable resins. I think those are more of a route worth looking down.