I imagine that Finland has very consistently cold weather in the winter which means switching to snow tires is fine. However, a lot of places in the United States can have wild swings from warm to cold temperatures. Based on the best information I can find, winter tires are only rated for temperatures below 45°F…

So this is basically the same concept of the Chevrolet Volt with a more modern engine design.  Perhaps instead of target a certain gas free range it will have a battery size closer to a Prius that just needs enough juice for accelerating from 0 or quick power bursts.

Then why does it make the top 10 list of ugliest cars for 2014?

I for one thought that particular button layout was going to be very distracting and goofy. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked after sitting in the car for just a few seconds. It is definitely one of those things that doesn’t show well in pictures/renderings.

The HP hype has been around as long as cars and has never died down. Emissions regulations in the early 70s may have hampered horsepower in new cars for 10-15 years, but once fuel injection became more mainstream in the mid 80s the horsepower started to steadily increase again through the 90s, 2000s, and up through…

It looks like it is an issue only with the 2014 CR-Vs.  There might be a software update to help it out.

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.

Unfortunately pictures will not attach to my post.

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.