If you have the HD wood trim holding your battery in it’s going to be a collectible. Just wait and see.

A company that shipped cars with parts sourced at the local Home Depot would do this? I am shocked, shocked I say.

Agreed.

Outside of in-city U-Haul rentals, I can’t remember the last time a car rental came with mileage restrictions (US or abroad). It’s always been unlimited miles for the duration of the rental.

Exactly this. If most of the world were vaccinated, and didn’t mind proving it without the unvaccinated calling it Nazism, then sure, no more masks. I have a four year old with asthma who had to be in the hospital last year. He’ll get vaccinated the minute he’s eligible. And sure, we flew with him pre-covid and…

Boomers were in their early 30s (at the very oldest) when this car released. The boomer generation started post WWII around 1946. Some of them couldn’t even drive yet, as that generation ended in the 60s. If you really wish to blame a generation for this, it would be the Silent Generation, as they would have been the…

Hey, preaching to the choir. As an Xer, admittedly an old one, I’m really seeing Mills treating us just like Boomers treated silents. All the anger they were not able to take out on the greatests, they turned on the next oldest but statistically demographically irrelevant generation, the silents; and now I am seeing…

Once the new car smell (VOC’s) is gone, the plastics survivor rate drops considerably. Alot of the foam or whatever backs the plastic cap shrinks up into dust too.

The technical term for what the plastic turns into on these cars is “brittle as fuck.” A light breeze will break a ‘70s dash pad. Once all the phthalates have evaporated out of the material it’s game over.

It was made clear in the article, and it’s appeared here often enough too, that prices in the UK and most of the world include all taxes. In this case you have import duty which I think is 10% and VAT at 20odd% plus the costs of sourcing the vehicles in the US and shipping them in small numbers. On top of that they…

Depending on how things go in this country, there’s a fairly decent chance of that 

Sounds like you’re a cheap bastard, Cheap-Bastard.

I think I would rather use the “posh loo unit” that is available.

Look, there is ONLY one acceptable livery for a 747 party plane...

1st: If automakers stop selling cheaper models, that will force more people to seek out and support alternatives, like transit. More reliance on transit helps build political support to fund it (and other alternatives).

Why does it look like a vent?

Maybe it’s just me but the Maverick cluster has hybrid powertrain information the Escape cluster lacks. Like the entire KW meter on the left side of the cluster.

John  Deere offer to pitch in a couple of ideas about DRM, too.

Does this mean that the actual odometer readings are stored somewhere else on another CPU?

Owen's English and has different idioms. Someone usually tries to call him out once per article, only to reveal that they never left the states.