The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix is apparently a big part of what got Christian von Koenigsegg into cars, so that's a pretty decent legacy. 

Hitting a coyote could have only happened in a 737 Max, as well.

I don’t try and overload my phone with much, but it still becomes buggy and laggy by the time I’m done with it from forced updates that it was never designed for. Mix in natural aging (depending on the cable, it won’t hold a connection without careful adjustment, and the screen is cracked), and this just sounds like…

In 10 years, I don’t think my Mazda switchblade ever opened unprompted, although the mechanism to keep it open wore down over time and if I put it in the ignition the wrong way (key nook down, or however you’d want to phrase it), it’d sag sadly at a 90 degree angle.

I still have a handful of toys painted that navy blue - my parents had a ‘90 Sonata, and had a tin of the paint in the garage that came home with us after a fender bender. Mind you, that’s not enough nostalgia to justify spending $3500 (although it’s probably a reasonable price for what it is).

US and Canadian production is so intertwined, the NHTSA requirement for content by country loops the two together (although, notably, quite a few US-built cars have significant Mexican content as well).

Any one of Nissan’s Pike cars would make great town runabouts if converted to EV. You’re probably not getting great range from an EV swap, but you wouldn’t want to do long trips in these for the most part anyhow, and it’s not like a basic four-cylinder is wildly characterful.

The third gen was already pretending at high-tech (who could get mad at an electric KITT?), and there’s still a healthy amount of unloved V6 Firebirds out there to rip into.

In a long list of stupid Stellantis things, that’s the stupidest Stellantis thing, throwing away an easy opportunity to make some easy money.

In retrospect, the lack of Raptor or TRX is probably a bit of a miss. Among a certain subset of young men, the big truck is what you buy once you can afford it. Couple that with the likelihood that in the next few years there’ll be some very loud voices demanding some pretty big changes to truck design, and these are…

I swear I’d seen an LC or two in the $60k range last year, in the Toronto area, but I’m not sure if that’s my memory being a bit muddled, or just that this is the wrong time of year to be shopping for an LC (there’s currently one on AutoTrader at $85k, private sale).

How much do you think can happen in 12k to make an appreciable difference in long-term ownership, especially on something that's overpriced because of a reputation for durability and reliability? Furthermore, for all the insistence that rental cars lead a hard life, is there anything to actually quantity greater rate…

I would be more interested (if such a stat exists) to see average time spent at charging stations per year or similar. I mean, personally, 95+% of the time, I’m very aware an EV could work for my needs, it’s just the odd edge case where I might do a day trip a handful of times per year where I might not be able to do…

At a minimum, the Toyobarus are going to follow the same trajectory as the 240SX, and go from decent affordable sports car (good chassis, meh engine) for their first owners to disposable track rat for the 2nd-5th owners, and the shrinking pool of clean ones will drive prices up (especially once nostalgia for anyone…

The song “I’m In Love (Subaru)“ by Sports Team mentions leather and chrome in the lyrics. Frequently. Two things basically no Subaru is known for (especially not the WRX in the video).

He’s supposedly a pleasant guy, and I’ll watch the odd video if it’s a car I find interesting, but the QUIRKS thing lost me in some video when he started going on about the foot-operated high beam switch, like that wasn’t an incredibly common thing for years.

Corvettes are famously complex, and are known to fall apart after 100 miles. Look at the discount you get at that mileage range.

Eh, with the cost of hydrogen, it eventually turns bad (I think around the 10 year mark, at least against the aforementioned Crown). Over 250k miles, you’re spending at least $110k on hydrogen, assuming the infrastructure lasts that long (at least in the short term, it’s a safer bet).

Yeah, looks like that $15k of hydrogen is good for about 30k miles, so call it 3 years of commuting. If you assume the Mirai is completely worthless at the end of those 3 years, that’s still only $417/mo, which is a little cheaper than the current lease on a Toyota Crown, and would be nearly your only expenses for…

I don't know if cars are necessarily losing value faster, we're just addicted to cheap, abundant credit, increasingly long loan terms  and conspicuous consumption.