Also, stealing IP is cheaper than developing something themselves.

That’s more a Mazda specific thing, but not the rule for all Japanese cars. I had an ‘06 Mazda 3 and it was rusting in under 5 years like an ‘80s Subaru or worse (also had 2 of those). The only other recent-ish Japanese cars I see rusting are Hondas, but it’s a lot less common and extensive.

It would be cool if it gets to the point where you can kind of design your own display, including what you want to see. I don’t need to constantly see a map as 99% of the time I know where I’m going and I don’t need a graphic showing me if a door is open, but I would like to see oil temp maybe, especially in the…

My BiL has a Cadillac and the CUE system in it SUCKS. Try to adjust the HVAC and you have to take your eyes off the road to unintuitively touch the icon for defrost—the only HVAC icon that normally shows, leading you to think that it’s just showing what is active rather than being the “button” to choose something else—…

Nice! Let me say, then, that I also hated his writing. If it was a subject I actually found interesting enough, I would scan through all the excess self-indulgent joking I rarely found amusing enough to almost get a snort in order to pick out the content. It was like reading Dickens, who got paid by the word, and his…

Not a fan of the exterior detailing, but as a concept’s shape and the interior, it’s fun and goofy and maybe there’s even a bit of mocking of current trends in there (that’s a guess as I know nothing about the guy). At least it’s interesting, unlike the overpriced, but uglier two-toned S-Class that MB put out in the…

Fuck, that is an ugly interior! What is that instrument cluster, a sticker from Little Tikes? And that steering wheel looks like someone put KIA “piano black” around a dodgem head pad. I’d take a roomy malaise era American interior— fake wood and all—over that cramped-looking monstrosity and that’s before getting into…

I don’t know the relative steel alloy tubing used, but these GT frame designs are not uncommon at all and it’s not like these are competitive to race anymore, so a possible slight reduction in steel quality that might come from a different GT frame doesn’t really matter. It’s like, Alfa Romeo Montreals were criticized…

If someone built a recreation of the Aerolithe and the Esders Royale, then why not an Atlantic? Especially if, say, someone had a 57 chassis with no bodywork and maybe the original body was something rather boring. If you’re going to spend a fortune on recreating the rest of the car, it might as well be dramatic. I’d…

I regret not buying them when they were $25-30k. I knew they’d go up and it would be great to own while it appreciated, but . . . I was stupid.

The angled V-grille is still an improvement over the usual flat shape they had, so they considered it, but in a different way.

That sucks. Poverty really is like a maelstrom and, once someone is pulled in, it’s extremely difficult to get away from it without outside help or maybe some windfall and the education to take advantage of it. The whole system is set up to keep people there and I don’t know what advice there can be for that.

Exact thing happened to me. Goddamn thing ran perfect—actually still does!—but burns coolant until it warms up that could clear the everglades of mosquitoes. No sign of a bad head gasket and a Ford TSB states that the fix for this symptom is a new engine (there’s a class action suit going on right now about it). With…

If I still had any respect or positive associations with BMW, I suppose I would have something negative to say about this, but the BMW that built that M1 is long gone and this thing is pretty much all I think of when BMW is mentioned.

The key to design is in the proportion. I understood that when I was a kid in the mid ‘80s and Micro Machines came out. They got the details right, but the proportions were terrible, so I had no interest in them. Exaggerating the correct proportions could work well, but these aren’t about design, they’re about selling…

why are there so many vents on something that should probably be watertight, particularly when they’re below what looks to be the waterline or close enough? And the forward facing intakes are perfect for ingesting a massive, sudden wave of water. And . . . I could go on for a while, but why? ND.

And ever more cars need or don’t drive as well without premium fuel as well.

In this market, that’s about the price of a 10-year-old 4-cylinder Camry with 120k. Definite scam.

Even saw one here in MA. It was half peeled off, but morons are everywhere.

Absolutely. You would retard the spark for starting. Some engines also had compression releases to aid starting and cars with impulse magnetos only required about a 1/4 turn to start.