username checks out. 

The thing is, if you are doing insurance fraud, you want a scenario where the insurance company is going to settle, and the way you get a settlement is by not giving them stuff they could easily argue mitigate their insured’s liability.   You know, stuff like having way more people in a vehicle than it was designed…

Yeah, being able to easily switch between Spotify for podcasts/music and Waze for navigation is huge. As well as having nice clear audio through one cable instead of the mess of a lightening to Belkin Rockstar adapter to charger and aux cable, which only works if I twist the aux cable the right way.

The latter is the…

And I think inability to charge at home is the big problem that EV people don’t talk about. I have multiple cars, if the numbers worked I would totally have an EV for local driving and an ICE vehicle for road trips. But I currently live in a townhouse with a parking lot, and while I do have one designated parking…

When I bought my first new car, I drove a Cherokee of this exact color, which for some reason the dealer had like 20 of. I ended up buying a PT Cruiser instead.

I REALLY wish I’d brought the bright yellow Cherokee. Ironically, I ended up replacing the PT Cruiser with a bright yellow Ford Ranger. I now drive a bright…

I’m guessing they bid on all the oddball stuff at auctions that nobody else bids on. 

It’s the home of 3 of the 15 wealthiest counties in the US.   In other words, the kind of people who would buy this. 

This answers so many questions I’ve had about “why is Torch Torch?”

You could also get a very nicely equipped pickup for $46k these days.  I know that much of Jalopnik hates that, but the several million people a year who buy new pickups in the US obviously disagree.   Including me (although mine was considerably less than 46k)

My 78 year old dad who has MS does not drive, but he still keeps his old minivan - a 2002 Town and Country - around precisely because he can get in and out of it, so my brother and I drive him in it when he needs to go somewhere.

In our case, it’s because my brother has a Navigator and I have a Ram 1500, and they are…

I had a Costco membership mostly for the gas (I’m a single dude so I don’t really need a 4 pack of pianos) but after a while I let it expire because by the time I added up the cost of the membership, the time driving out of my way there, and the time waiting in line at the very busy pumps I wasn’t really saving…

Evidently you can if you force it hard enough. We have our own gas pump at work which has diesel and gas, and one of our brilliant employees somehow managed to put diesel in our Dodge Caravan. It made it about a mile before it ran out of the gas that was left in the fuel system and died. When asked, he was like “yeah,…

Meh. The design is clearly based on a gas-powered truck, so that’s the area where the engine would normally be. More importantly, it’s good to have clearly defined terms that emergency personnel can use to communicate. Say “fire is in the engine area” over the radio and everyone can picture what you are talking about.…

The book “All Corvettes are Red” talks about how they made test mules for the C5 Corvette by putting the running gear in Camaros, which they referred to as “Cormaros”

Or better yet, go all the way and fill up the truck with packages, preferably breakable ones.   They have to deliver all of the packages to the correct recipients at various points on a road course.   Points are gained from correct deliveries, including scanning tracking numbers.  Points are deducted for late…

The linked ABC article says “ It’s unclear if the Malibu was involved in the meet.”, which means it’s unclear if they were in the wrong place at the wrong time or intentionally watching this jackassery. 

There is evidently one road in Texas with an 85 mph speed limit, and several states that have roads with 80mph speed limits.

It’s easy to imagine a situation where one could be doing the speed limit and need to accelerate briefly to avoid a collision or safely complete a pass.

The thing is that they’ve been supplementing the LLV’s with off-the-shelf vehicles for years - Windstars, Caravan/Ram CV’s, Ram Promasters, and the Mercedes Metris with the missing grill ornament that Torch was fascinated by.

I’m really curious to see how much these cost per unit compared to those.  I get that having…

it’s a split level!

When GM killed Oldsmobile, they had to pay dealers around a billion dollars to break their franchise agreements.