Because I’m cheap and got the base model, my new CX-5 has push button start but not push button entry. It’s not the issue to end all issues, but it’s a little annoying to have to dig the key out just to not need it once I’m actually in the car (although I’m starting to feel the buttons enough I don’t have to look). On…

It's an adaptation of a 2017 novel (Spaceman of Bohemia), so that's predating Weir's novel.

I think you’re thinking of the Millennium Bug.

There’s a very real limit to how well you can take that idea though. There’s about 87k 10ish (MY13-14) YO cars on Auto Trader right now. only 9100 are under 60k, and if we whittle that down a bit further to anything under $20k (because you’re getting close to new car money at that point), there’s only 4500 (or a bit…

I’m surprised the fruit hanging so low it’s already decomposed and the seeds have sprouted baby hate trees hasn’t already come up. I still dig the PT Cruiser, I think it gets too much flak, but there’s no question it’s gone from something that was selling for huge markups to a sad broken down winga dinga wagon.

It’s a bit better in 300c spec, but the basic 300s are born rental cars.

I kind of like the original Tiburon, but it got worse;

Seriously, who is asking for this? It’s not getting great engagement, even by current tepid standards. Does it secretly get massive amounts of clicks?

Of, you know, don’t feel compelled to go out of your way to buy the average car when there are functional more affordable options.

Anecdotally, looking at a population of a bit over 7000 vehicles in some historical data I have (MY18-22, sold ages between about 30 and 66 months), retained value at about 4 years was around 72% of MSRP, so way off what he’s calling. On one hand, quite a bit of that is the market from the past few years (we’ve seen…

The anodyne Japanese sedan with the dealer-installed vinyl roof. It’s already kind of dumb enough on a big boxy Malaise era land yacht, but it’s even worse stripped of full context. Like, imagine walking around in athleisure wear with a massive powdered wig on your head because that’s what classy people wore like 200…

I feel like it has to be said it’s a 3-wheeler because of British tax laws (similar reason to what birthed the Morgan 3-wheeler back in the day), and I assume putting the singular wheel in the front rather than the more stable rear option was for the sake of space utilization.

I for one loved automatic seatbelts, at least as a novelty. That said, it was very easy to forget to do the lap belt up.

There’s no indication anyone was called a candy-ass, couldn’t have been Mr. Johnson.

Eh, to the trade in point, if you hammer the dealer on purchase price and then suddenly reveal you have a trade in, do you think they’re likely to give you market value?

To be fair, this would be the contemporary Euro market Capri below, not the excellent looking Mark III.

The Pontiac Sunrunner was a replacement for the Asuna Sunrunner, because Pontiac dealers demanded Geo equivalents to the Chevy dealer down the street, and because Pontiac dealers sold well, GM Canada frequently capitulated and gave them more cheap stuff to sell (see also Beaumont, Acadian, the Corsica-based Pontiac…

There’s variations on the specifics, but that the LX is a rebodied W124 just won’t die.

This looks to be from a chain station, but last month.

Supposedly there may be some variation to additives between brands, although that might be marketing hogwash. Every now and then though, there’ll be a story about a bunch of cars sustaining damage from consistently fueling up at a place with water dilution in the gas or something similar (frequently a small…