I can’t help but wonder how much of this is self-selecting - people buy cars for the reputation of reliability, and both subject the car to good maintenance (that aids longevity), and are more willing to spend for the occasional big ticket repair rather than getting rid of it (because, you know, it’s a reliable car!…

Longest lasting favourite was probably the Viper or the Jeep YJ.

Bullitt is not bad, Bullitt is old, and that’s a pretty substantial difference. It’s pretty influential even outside of the chase (relatively early instance of the anti-hero cop that helped pave the way for hundreds of angry lieutenants demanding someone turn in their badge and their weapon, along with a healthy…

CLK’s never seem like they’re worth all that much money (from the start of the bad times for Benz, soft looking coupe mostly without any major performance cred), but I kind of like them. If it passes a test drive, I’d take it out a few weekends a year.

Does that mean there’s no Saturn in Miles Morales’s universe though? That’s kid of sad then, really.

There were times on business travel (pre-pandemic), where I could get from my front door to the gate in under a half hour, out of YYZ. I admittedly only lived a few miles from the airport, had parking available on site, and have my NEXUS (Canadian Pre-check equivalent). Even without, I don’t think I remember security…

They’d actually finished the switch to Nissan by ‘84 (they spent a couple years as Datsun by Nissan to get the public to accept the change), although it’s pretty reasonable that a normie like Martin’s character wouldn’t make that distinction in the moment.

Cynically, as much as I generally agree with making cities more pleasant for the people who live there, I think a lot of the success of any car-free initiatives is driven by the same NIMBYism that pushes people out to where a car is necessary. 

Absolutely. 

Just one point - the required oil change cycle by manufacturer varies wildly, and assuming 10-15k miles could end poorly. I work in fleet management, and we saw quite a few Hyundais blow their engines fairly quickly because an ~8k cycle was used rather than the recommended 5k (a mistake on our part, although there’s…

Is Jimmy supposed to be likable? I'm not sure anyone who's more annoyed than horrified that you've brought your manslaughter victim into their garage is likable.

Admittedly, the answer probably makes more sense ~15 years ago, knowing just how much amortization time Chrysler had left in the platform, even if they did make those changes (hell, throw them at the 300, while they’re at it).

It’s a big, dumb, fun hoonmobile, if they can give the Challenger a 6-speed option, the Charger deserves it too. At least the aftermarket facilitates that, if you’re dead set on it.

If I’m not mistaken (I’m assuming the tax laws are similar in the US, but I’m also going off secondhand knowledge), the biggest reason to lease is if you use your car for work (but not so much as to go afoul of mileage limits) that you can claim the lease payment on your taxes (where it’s harder to claim depreciation…

Years ago, I delivered pizza at a place that had a fleet of battered Chevette delivery cars. Practically bald tires, gutless, never got an oil change because they burned like a quart a day. They’d get sideways at walking speeds, could in the right conditions do a 180 from a stop, and were pretty much the best way to…

Just a reminder that these lists are always done as percentages, and would be more useful as broken out by price bracket, model class, or absolute dollars lost.

Leasing is effectively just paying the depreciation as calculated by the OEM, and they give you a set buyout cost at end of term (I believe basically what they think the car will have depreciated to by end of term).

There’s a shot of an older looking Grillo at roughly 1:10 in the trailer, with a model of a red 400i and later blue Countach in front of him on a desk, so I wonder if the whole drag race is supposed to be imagined. I’m sure the Mondial is at least a little bit a matter of what the producers could get their hands on,…

My kid has wanted to watch Elf almost daily for the past couple weeks, so current Peter Billingsley is unnerving for a different reason.

As a broke college student, I lucked out and won use of an 8th gen Civic for a couple years (mine was similar to the one below except black). Honda was even happy to honour my request for a manual. I only had it for two years (I ran out the mileage allocation), but it was an excellent little car, especially for…