I hate this subscription stuff for cars. I bought a 2012 Mazda CX-9 GT with built-in navigation in 2014. In 2017 we were going to Vancouver Island for a vaycay and thought it might be prudent to get the updated DVDs for the maps, in case we couldn’t get a data signal for iPhone maps or Google Maps. The DVDs cost north…

The first guy probably said to the other - “Bert - he won’t haggle”.

They sold a decent number of these in Australia. I remember one of my primary school teachers driving one. One time I offered to help a guy push one after it broke down, compared to other cars they weighed a ton. I put British cars in the same category as Italian and German cars: holes in the road into which one…

I think you mean fugly, because it is.

I guess they’re doing a cost-benefit analysis. I was reading that it costs around $1million to get a powertrain certified for sale in the USA, and if Mercedes aren’t selling that many sedans/coupes/wagons they’ll just drop the unpopular models and focus on their SUVs, like most other marques. That $1million price tag…

My aunt and uncle had one of these back in the 1970's. We called it the Blubberbus in honor of my aunt’s svelte figure. We weren’t very nice, but neither was she.

I went to a conference in Dallas a few years ago, one of my co-attendees was complaining that her voice controlled navigation could not understand her (admittedly strong) Texan accent. I find voice controls in most cars to be pretty shitty.

As my late mother used to say (and could now attest) “there are no pockets in shrouds.” What’s the use is making a lot of money if you, your spouse, your kids, parents etc. are dead.

Given that the majority of pick up truck drivers rarely, if ever, transport anything in the bed of the truck, this is just another model to satisfy the market for pickup trucks.

I have always been astonished that anyone would call a motor vehicle a “Pajero”, in a world where a good number of people know the Spanish colloquial use of that term.

Classic case of big car, small dick.

Those glass panels in the bottom of the door will make it impossible to use the autoblow.

Having lived in Brooklyn myself (2008 - 2014) I know that there are any number of really, really shady car dealers there. I used to walk past one “buy here, pay here, we finance everyone” dealer on my way home from work, having cycled on Citibike from Manhattan to Clinton Hill. If you’ve never bought a car before,…

According to Ms. Parton herself, by the time the pandemic is over, there’ll be plenty of folks begging Joelene to take their man.

I would, personally, support the widespread use of speed and red light cameras to enforce traffic laws. However, to do that effectively, laws need to specify that the registered owner is presumed to be driving, and that a traffic citation will be issued to that driver when his/her motor vehicle is photographed…

Those are definitely Ford Cortina tail lights. In Australia in the 1970's (when I was a kid) four door Cortinas were all over the place. One of our neighbors had one and she managed to fit five kids in it to drive us to school when the buses were on strike (three of us and her own two). Needless to say seatbelts for…

Instant gratification. If I order a car from the manufacturer, it will take three months to arrive. If I walk onto the lot of the nearest dealer, I can drive off in a car today (assuming I have the cash/credit to make the deal happen).

Don’t car dealers pick the colors? I mean, most people buy a car off the lot rather than order a special build, so if the car dealer has black, white and silver models on the lot, that is what you get. Most people are risk averse and want a car in a color that won’t attract too much attention (esp of the po-po),…

Back in 2007 I was living in a first floor walk up on W74th in Manhattan. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon and I was chilling in the living room. Some horn honking roused me off the sofa to look out the window. There playing out in front of me was that eponymous scene from Seinfeld, one motorist trying to reverse in,…

No, they use to make life easier for their repo man when you stop making payments on said vehicle.