Better midrange torque (or just no dip in it) would be welcome, but I trust that overstressed little engine even less than the FA24D and I’m no fan of AWD (I even prefer FWD—though not in a sports car—as my 3 former Subarus that were FWD drove much better than their AWD mates while getting better mileage and having no…

Dur, you stupid luddite, we can obviously trust steer-by-wire because hur dur airplanes.

“But I still live my truck, thanks, Elon!”

Try explaining it to the average moron while they insist on attempting it. I tried a few times over the years and they obviously thought they knew better even though their lack of success and what they must know is a deficit of automotive knowledge should tell them they’re on their back foot, so now I leave them to…

That was a pretty good one.

That’s what I thought. I would think this would be crossing against the light, not jaywalking, but maybe there’s no distinction.

My guess is the height of the hood might have something to do with it. Vehicle impacts in shoulder area and force of the hit throws body forward while unimpacted head tries to remain stationary? Tall hood also wouldn’t help visibility. Same with loss of a head, but that’s at the bottom of the list of problems at that…

This is a late reply, but one thing that I didn’t see mentioned in a scan of other comments is also the feel of quality. A Corolla effectively does what a Rolls Royce does (better if measuring as a simple car), but the feeling of quality is vastly different, making simple operations like flick of a switch a small joy.…

Most of the time, that was because the rear wheel well cut into the door, not leaving enough internal space for full retraction. Some cars would have the glass pivot down farther at the leading edge to get a little more drop while the rear would stick up. To the uninitiated, it looked like the window track had failed.

Not me. Don’t like tall (though it’s not a disqualifier), don’t like slender in its usual form used to describe runway models who are rail-thin and shapeless, and I don’t prefer blondes or really pale skin. Growing up in the anti-ass, silicone-chest ‘80s, I didn’t really understand the bikini posters of nearly flat hip…

It’s just about perfect for the job. Getaways aren’t generally like the movies and if they get to that point, things went bad and you’re likely getting caught, plus we’re talking a crowded city, so a fast car’s acceleration and top speed are almost worthless. A motorcycle would be faster, but these things are…

Yeah, while I agree that car-centric infrastructure contributes to the problem, suburban sprawl has been a thing for decades. I think the relatively recent rise of social media and ubiquitous connectivity with its addictively constant information scrolling combined with FOMO (ironic as people miss out when they are on…

I know my neighbor! He’s in a cult started by some former white collar criminal who stole $16M or something like that, but hey, they have some E-list actor from Dawson’s Creek in it! I’m glad he’s a 1/4 mi. driveway away.

Seen 3 or so (same one, 2 or 3 times, who can tell?). They’re even wavier looking in person than I expected (maybe they’ll be identifiable by their panels’ particular waves, kind of like the unique markings on a whale). Looks like an old B-movie sci-fi prop—maybe one of those original Star Wars knockoffs—but not in a…

For me it’s obnoxious safety nannies of highly dubious benefit to anyone doing the bare minimum of paying attention and common false activations or failures to work (see recent IIHS EAB tests) that make the car less safe and also cause vehicles to sometimes be totaled for minor collisions due to lack of parts/expense;…

Real OEMs can’t seem to program fucking e-throttles to not lag and we’re trusting a shitbag company like Tesla to do steer-by-wire correctly? This garbage should be illegal. Benefits are virtually none (and nothing that matters) with very high potential for serious consequences in the event of easily foreseen failure…

F series engines are timing chain. These are F-series engines.

Because you should at get enough to be back in a reasonably equivalently reliable vehicle, at least if you’re not at fault. When two POS rear-ended and totaled my perfect-running, great shape, paid-off, 5-yo car, it took me 6 months with a lawyer just to get even 1/3 the replacement cost of my low end compact, which…

Most 4s are inlines that use balance shafts, which boxer 4s don’t need (so they don’t use them). The I4s can seem smoother thanks to the balance shafts, but not due to inherent balance.

Titanic: killing 1%ers since 1912. Send them all!

One big reason I prefer manuals is that the clutches alone are often longer lived than many of these shift-for-yous. What’s the point here in adding things to break? Another point of a manual is in being able to set up the power band range for a turn. An EV with a broader power range doesn’t really need that and the…