I agree with all of this and that’s why I mentioned Amazon which also has a very high P/E ratio and got hit with a huge correction because of it (so may argue they are still over valued). AMZ has historically been a growth stock and took a 49% loss in stock price over the same period mentioned in the article.…

I’m saying looking at one stock without context as to how comparable stocks (other car companies, other companies of similar valuation, etc.) and how the market as a whole is doing over the same period mentioned would be a good thing to mention. Having context to compare things isn’t whataboutism it is how you are…

The first stock I mentioned was Amazon which has a revenue of almost 470 billion. I’m sorry you think they aren’t a mature company. My main point was there needs to be a frame of reference and that other large car companies have lost 15-35% in the same 1 year period.  There needs to be context about how other similar…

All of what you are saying makes sense, and to those that complain about the headroom you could easily point to any of those models as an alternative- especially the RAV4 from a space perspective. Those models were just fresh on the top of my head after a previous article about multiple models built on the same…

I am by no means defending Tesla or Elon but you need to compare TSLA to other stocks and the market before just rattling off that TSLA is down 51% this year. Just checked Amazon and they are down around 49% from last year, Nikola is 78.56%, Rivian 78.71%, Lucid 81.44,  Fiskar 60.93%.  Even the big boys like Toyota,…

Reads paragraph about Z history, puts on Glasses, “well actually....” the 260z came out in 1973 and went a whole 18 months into 1974 before being replaced by the 280z

I wouldn’t be surprised to see variants of Priuses come out.  The older models had the V and C, V for the larger variant and C for the smaller.  I could see Toyota doing something similar as long as they felt it wouldn’t take away from crossover sales of one of their many hybrid crossover vehicles.

With all the careful planning that Toyota does one would have hoped someone in marketing would’ve stopped the name BZ4X from going into production. Unfortunately not that it has been out as long as it has they have some brand cache in the name and probably aren’t changing it any time soon. For me they are best known…

Drum brakes “can” be done in the time it takes to replace disc brakes. However, as you have stated generally shoes last longer than pads. I’ve seen shoes go past 100k and still be in spec, mainly because as you and I have both pointed out they do less work. What that means is when it is time to change them (assuming…

I would highly recommend some kind of spill proof coolant funnel. Generally the rad cap is the highest point of the coolant system. Adding a funnel filled with coolant makes it even higher. You run the car with the funnel on and the car will suck in coolant air will make its way up through the funnel as it wants to…

When I started reading this seemed like pretty standard timing belt affair stuff. Many modern FWD cars have a belt driven water pump where there is little access (due to the longitudinally mounted engine), also many are interference engines making the job scary. Outside of all the super hard to get to bolts for me the…

Yes the rears do little work, generally speaking the fronts do 70% of the braking so from a strictly performance standpoint its negligible. The cons of drums are: they get hot due to the heat not being able to dissipate quickly since its stuck in a big iron hat (can lead to brake fade, mushy pedal, etc), also they are…

I used to work at a lincoln/mercury dealer and I hated putting these on the allignment rack because it was like an on/off switch, same for just moving them around the lot.  It was vomit inducing.

Darn didn’t realize I needed a flamesuit because I didn’t realize how many modern vehicles had drums.  Sounds like we need a new QOTD for newer cars with drums.  Personally, I hate drums as I’m sure most people who have had a spring shot across the room or have had to wail on a drum to remove it for inspection do.

I love MK IV’s but I also know they are absolute shit for build quality. I went to check out the back seat in one I was looking to buy and the lever attached to the front seat broke off in my hand. Miraculously I just shoved it back in and it still worked without the guy noticing, it had probably broken years ago and…

I remember working on a cavalier at one point and looking at the rear brakes and it had drums in it. Keep in mind this was like 2010's when virtually every car had already gone to 4 wheel discs.  So even new they were equipped like a 20 year old car.

1st Gen Escape Hybrid. Flinty handling, weird brake pedal, weird gas pedal, loud as hell on the highway. Press the gas nothing happens, press more, nothing happens, press more oh shit you want to actually go somewhere-engine fires up and you get all the acceleration it has at once. Brakes act in the same way. Just…

You don’t even clear a Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth 318 which has 5211cc with the first 5.

Mine is this one, which it sound like works the same as yours:

Dude I know.  I worked at a dealer so I always had the lisle tool with the reverse threads handy just in case.  From what I remember if you drove it around to get it hot first and sprayed some pb blaster it would usually break free.  Some guys swore by using 3/8" impacts to break them loose but I was too scared to try.