This isn’t 1980. Failure at 140k—especially on a low performance engine—shouldn’t be unacceptable. This is clearly a major OEM problem (Hyundai still doesn’t know how to make engines. I guess it’s a good thing they’re turning toward electric, not that I’d trust them.).

Ah, the old manual steering tire pressure monitoring system! My Subaru GLs had that, too. Simple and foolproof.

At only 140k and after a lifetime of eating oil at a rate my ‘84 Subaru GL with a leaking rear main seal would smugly laugh at?! What POS cars are you used to and why do you feel the need to defend them? Not only that, this is an extensive and well-known problem and they previously agreed to cover it.

Damn, those filters are expensive to use like that and the lack of visibility is likely more dangerous than the potential for infection (assuming they don’t have an immunodeficiency).

Kevin Costner is getting too old for this shit.

The only way I’d notice they stopped delivering mail here is by the lack of trash private companies pay them to put in my mailbox.

Comparing this to a then brand new operation with barely enough money from about 75 years ago . . . yeah, that’s valid. How low a bar do we need to set for this 50 year old tween?

Yes, and frequent total replacement due to stupid design issues and bullshit recalls that they don’t actually honor.

Looks at Macbook Pro’s chipped keyboard keys that can get jammed up by phantom crumbs even when not eating near it and reads past the shadow pixels from where he sits, stuck on his couch as laptop can’t be unplugged due to shit battery which, despite being produced during a recall period and exhibiting the exact issues…

Everything about him from this article indicates that he isn’t much of a thinker.

Yeah, he gets what he deserves. Sounds like it couldn’t have happened to a better assclown.

If VW moves upmarket, they have nothing in the US to take up the low end and they already have plenty of upmarket brands unless they just go sub-premium and replace the low end Audis. Eh, I don’t really care.

Why would an enthusiast want any of those at all? Those are just ordinary cars in ubiquitous form factors that are less reliable than most of their competitors.

The black color just means there’s more blood in this stool. ND.

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I had a mechanically inept friend learn from a salesman he bought his car from and I had to teach myself. A lot of insecure people seem to love making it seem harder to learn than it is (while helping to kill manuals by dissuading more people from learning). Yes, there are some more advanced techniques, but you can…

Holy shit, that thing looks like it has a reasonable height belt line and actual damn windows that aren’t machine gun slits in a bunker.

Owner of multiple Apple products and the last thing I would buy from them is a fucking car—they’ll be like VW with Tesla’s attitude and weirdo cult apologists if their electronics are…

I just bought a GR86 in January, so this might be some help: Toyota won’t do special orders, they do allocations based on the idea of some forecasting eunuch used to selling beige CUVs idea of what people want. Of the desirable specs that actually trickle into market, you’re at the mercy of location, both geographic…

They’ll be driven once by the 20 year old son the oil baron bought it for and driven at top speed until it runs out of fuel, whereupon it’s abandoned in the desert.

MA uses a variety of treatments depending upon conditions and area. A rock salt/calcium chloride mix is used in low salt areas, like wetlands. Not sure how much less salt that adds to the environment as that’s still salt, but from what I remember from my time in MI, there is a lot more salt applied there.

Ew, but, yup, that’s exactly what I expected to see.