Step1 : steal cars

Nissan Leaf’s don’t have a combustion engine to idle.

At least someone here gets it right. The call center workers are not trained properly, because that takes time which is better used making profit for the owners. They are paid minimum wage and are given requirements to upsell people who call them and get yelled if they fail.

“Racially insensitive.” No, that is a hell of a lot more than insensitive, that’s the whole kit and caboodle of straight up fuck-you level racism.

Well it is maroon!

GM’s barely doing better with the Hummer. They sold 854 in 2022 but their earnings reports say they built close to 6,000. Which is weird because they haven’t even started taking orders or options for trucks past the first 1200 built-to-a-spec Edition 1s and identically built 1800 dealer demos, so no one knows what the…

I’m no dice on this as well, but lets be honest, most accidents don’t result in a total, and it should be easily verifiable if this thing was totaled or not. 

In many states, you can avoid having a branded title if you’re the owner when the car gets totaled and you buy the car back from the insurance company. In that case, the history report (CarFax, AutoCheck) may show an event, but no updated title gets issued. In those states, the owner is often supposed to surrender the…

I wish the exterior received the same attention as the interior for updates, but I think it’s a very nice interior for the target demographic.

Yep, there was story of a guy who used them back before every one of them had cams and they had to watch groups of traffic over time to figure out he was the one doing it.

To add to this, a lot of the preemption enabled traffic lights have surveillance cameras. IR is invisible to the naked eye but very much visible to cameras, and all of them that I have seen do save and flag preemption events in the surveillance software, usually for debugging when they don’t work with emergency…

Kyree, you need to work here. You are a better, and far more knowledgeable, writer than 95% of the twerps currently churning out crap.

That radio in the 2nd pic got in a lot of use. I have an ‘07 Sky (April ‘06 build date) with it.

This exists almost entirely for cities that outlaw internal combustion in city centers. Run on ev around town, burn gas on the Autobahn.  That's why many of these luxury cars are getting plug in versions 

I keep looking at these but my wife is dead set against a minivan. 

Back in 1988 I purchased a 1980 Oldsmobile Toronado Diesel for a mere $500. I bought it from the original owner who had a new Good Wrench motor installed under warranty. It was a clean fairly well optioned one in gray with a bordello red velour interior and the steel sunroof but sans vinyl top and oddly enough no tilt…

Nothing worse than a swinging door that swings the wrong way, like the Lexus GX. You open the door and it blocks your way towards the curb.

If I have a 2019 Range Rover - one year after 2018 mid-life facelift, does that mean I have the 3.0 SC V6 built under contact by Ford, and is that why it’s been so surprisingly reliable? 😆

More than you realize.

.... if you’re referring to the supercharged Range Rover Sport, it would have had the same supercharged V8 as this defender. I had a 2011 supercharged Range Rover Sport, still miss that instant throttle response and sound.