That getting rid of points was the best thing I ever did with my Fords.

“Honda’s reputation for reliability is anachronistic in 2021. They’re not really that much better than other large brands. Consumer Reports has them trailing behind Mazda, Toyota, Lexus (Toyota 2), and Buick, while only being marginally better than Hyundai. We’re also talking about a performance variant of a the…

Reading comprehension for the loss, eh?

RV Driver: “Wow, this thing is really struggling.”

If you were the proverbial fly on the firewall, you probably be dead now. 

Yeah, I guess my “why would you defy simple vehicle regulations?” naivete kicked in.  

What about the responsibility of the OEM or the dealer in having recall parts available? I own a Pacifica Hybrid which had a fire recall this year - the hybrid battery electronics architecture was responsible for ~12 fires in the northern US and Canada. We were told earlier this year to stop driving it, park it…

Pretty sure they meant Re&Re (Remove & Replace) the motor with a gasoline powered version.

“Reliability is very important to me”

No. Cimmaron. With a sturdier automatic from a later Celebrity and cut-down axle shafts. It was no Ferrari, but it was pretty damn quick on a rolling start. I actually got the idea from NPCP, when it featured somebody who stuffed a 4.1 in a Citation.

This is not just any E46. It is the special M56 SULEV version. The valve cover is a dead giveaway.

First, solve the problem of having to refresh the page to get the comments to show up. 

Dashcam videos saved me from boredom in the 5 years I worked at office jobs that I hated, so there’s that?

You shut your mouth.  The inline 6 is one of the best engine designs in the history of the ICE.

Let them register their ships stateside and pay taxes and then we’ll look into giving them assistance in a year or two.

I paid off my car. I’m looking at my saved vehicles on Autotrader- some new, most used and every week their prices drop like a rock. More so because they’re all sedans.

Who the hell has a mechanical issue at 165,000 (!) miles and expects the manufacturer to fix it for them?

They have no incentive to. The people making the calls are incentivized (via big bonuses) to cut all “nonessential” costs in order to post bigger profits to their investors every year. Putting aside money cuts into profits.

There are three kinds of people in this world: those who understand math and those who don’t.