Watched the Regular Car Reviews piece on a 1984 IDI Diesel F-250 last night, wake up this morning to its 750hp descendant costing nearly as much as a modern mid-western bungalow.  Fantastic timing!  Zero dice......

Count me as disturbed. Several years ago I thought Hyundai styling really hit its stride. The Elantra, Elantra Sport, Sonata, and Tuscon were all good looking and slightly aggressive in an understated kind of way.

Haha, yep, I can only imagine how ruthless the modern-Trek haters would have been with early TNG and DS9. Only two episodes in, I wouldn’t call Lower Decks great by any stretch, but I’m more optimistic about it getting to great than I am the other two current Treks.

I think the first two episodes have been okay, a different spin on the Star Trek concept that takes some getting used to.

The pre-facelift Elantra Sport is a REALLY sharp looking car, darn near almost perfect. Hyundai ruined it with the facelift, and now they’ve gone and seemingly ruined the Elantra again with whatever the heck that is pictured up top....the front end reminds me of The Grinch smiling.

100% spot on, I’ve always understood the whole point of timing chains over a belt was that chains weren’t supposed need attention after 100k miles. My brother just sold his Regal GS with the ECOTECH Turbo because it also needs the timing chain replaced around 100k miles (moreso due to the tensioners I believe than the…

Our boy Madison here seem to be the very embodiment of the phrase “all hat and no cattle” 

One of the car YouTubers I follow (WatchJRGo) has a Camaro very similar to this one that he’s been working on. After 120k miles the V6 was all sludged up and timing chains were loose. He got it squared away, but the timing chains especially seemed like a TON of work. Not something I’d want to do myself or pay to have…

Agree 100% on Picard, I was mostly unimpressed with it after season 1 wrapped up, but I went back and binged through all the episodes and came away surprised at how much more I liked it all strung together. Though even the 2nd time through I think the way they ended the whole story was kind of weak, not a fan, but oh…

You make a lot of good points, and yeah I’ve heard about how upset people were back in 1987 about TNG (my 6-year old self didn’t really have an opinion at the time, lol), so as I said before it really is Star Trek tradition to not usually give fans what they want....and often times it works out just fine.

I think the issue with Lower Decks is that (perhaps in the Star Trek tradition) its once again the Trek that no one is asking for. Most fans would likely agree that what we want is (finally) a post-Voyager timeline, live-action, mostly episodic, TNG-feel type of show. I guess we are kind of getting that with the…

I’ve been paying very close attention to 4-Runners (TRD Off-Road trim), its on the short list of vehicles I may flip my Volvo s60 for within the next year.

I think later model Journeys with the blacked out trim and wheels (maybe Dodge still calls that blacktop package, I dunno) are really good looking CUVs......too bad the rest of the package is apparently mediocre at best

The Strokes have a new song called “Bad Decisions”, I feel like Belal Bilto and his $48,000 Jeep should be in the music video 

I think you just bought the wrong beater in that XC70, though from the one pic it does look in decent shape. Even with a replacement motor I would fear a 15+ year old Volvo is going to continue to nickel/dime you to death. It’s all sunk-cost fallacy at this point.

Unfortunately they don’t have the 7year/100k warranty any longer. When I bought my car in 2015 it was a CPO and that warranty was awesome. Used it to repair front struts, airbag module, and a somewhat noisy AC Compressor. Dealer just fixed stuff, no questions asked.

My 2012 s60 has been fine, a few issues here and there but overall very solid with just over 80,000 miles. The 5 and 6 cylinder motors from that era are pretty stout, however the early 2.0 liter 4 cylinders (“drive-e” motors) have issues with gulping oil.

I’ve had my 2012 s60 T6 for about 5 years now and agree 100%, the center stack is awesome. I can adjust everything by touch without taking my eyes off the road, the waterfall style is unique, and the cubby behind it fits sunglasses perfectly. Mock all you want, but I’ll take the Volvo buttons and dials over a…

Agreed, based on just the pictures above I 100% take the Isuzu over the Mazda, cool looking truck

GTO looks nice man, shame it met such an unfortunate end! But I know what you mean 100%, I used to daily drive mine back when I was in my 20s and it was fine, but now that I’m in my late 30s I am happy to have a quick yet comfortable Volvo sedan as my daily.  If I were forced to have just one car I’d end up selling…