I left a note once on a neighbor’s car that had brakes so bad that the rotors had deep groves from the pad rivets on both the front and rear. It made the most horrendous sound when he pulled up. Note said it was unsafe and I even offered to help him change them if he got parts.

I only watched the first episode and immediately forgot about the whole series. Glad I didn’t miss much.

The driver was doing exactly what I would expect of someone in a self driving car. Watching cat videos, reading a book, finishing up a briefing for work - basically things other than driving. I’m sure this will become more common as we hand over control of our lives to a computer.

Starred for “furmissile” ...and everything else.

I always thought it was something reasonable, like anything made after Jun would fall under the next model year.

We’re, what, 20 days into 2018, how can they be selling cars as 2019 model years? Isn’t there some kind of logical cut off? Just call it a 2018 since that’s when it was realistically made.

This thread has actually piqued my interest in possibly leasing a new EV for my daily commute to work. Now I’ve got some work ahead of me researching the nuances of leasing, since I’ve always bought slightly used manual cars in the past. But this looks like it could be a legitimate option and keep my fun car for long…

I’d also blame the bloating of carseats as another reason families are going to bloated SUVs/CUVs. Sure, many of the newer crossovers are just tall hatchbacks, but it’s still much easier to buckle a kid in when you don’t have to bend down as far. The need for 3 car seats at the same time is how we ended up trading the…

Easy, the guy in charge of marketing at Nissan was a huge Star Wars nut growing up. He had aspirations about making movies early in his career and started making commercials to pay the bills. So when the opportunity to get involved with his childhood fantasy, he jumped on it. Now he has some cool x-wing cars to play…

I don’t know if this is what OP is referring to exactly, but Infiniti in particular seems guilty of “package stacking”. Meaning you’re presented with a list of available packages, but selecting one tends to automatically select several other packages. The options are misleading a little bit since in reality you can…

That 180-220 acceleration is what stood out to me. Pretty damn impressive.

Seems legit. Can I put that in the back seat so my daughter can shift like daddy?

I can see that, I’d be squealing so much that I’d make myself tired.

I’d pay $15 to see this in a theater.

I’m so confused by this right now. There’s a regular shifter with the typical pattern, but it has PRNDL buttons.

That’s hilarious! Keep her forever.

I’m pretty sure my wife would have the same reaction to this car. However, I suck a surprises (or she’s good a snooping) and would never be able to pull it off, she’d be taking the keys and driving off as I was signing paperwork.

Virginia is (or was) notorious for ticketing cars from NC with dark window tint in the VA Beach area. I was in court back in 2003 and the judge basically said to some poor schmuck something along the lines of “it doesn’t matter what state the car is registered in, it needs to comply with our laws.” I moved away from…

Somewhat related, I think this just shows some of the unintended consequences of pedestrian standards. A lot of these renders look very much like cars from the 90s to early 2000s, but with a lot of painted bumper out front. Previously, cars would just have a lower nose. Now with the tall front ends, everything just…

Back in the late 90s I was looking to purchase my first car. The MX-6, 240SX, and Prelude were on my short list to buy. My uncle was a mechanic at a Ford/Mazda dealership at the time and told me to avoid the MX-6 because they were constantly in his shop with various issues. I ended up with a 240SX and just assumed all…