No, people around here are just dumb.

Gas prices directly correlating to oil prices might be the funniest thing I hear today.

Sorry to pile on.

The bigger brakes is the same argument as the wheels. In this case, it’s mainly aesthetics to make them bigger. Almost nobody is making repeated high speed stops in an Escalade where the larger brakes would be able to reduce fade. The smaller brakes here probably help to mitigate some of the effects of the heavyweight…

It shows that GM planned for that suv to have smaller wheels with larger tires. Not sure why someone putting 24s on after is GM’s fault. Those brakes work fine, I’m sure.

“Production cars often imitate design elements of race cars to make them look sportier, but fat sidewalls have ruled in the top levels of stock car and open-wheel racing for decades.“

Yes, because the rules limited those particular classes to a small diameter wheel. Large diameter wheels have been used in every other…

No, it’s standard procedure now to tease a new vehicle before giving all of the details so that they can trickle out that information and jamokes like me have to write about the same car five times. 

It was Erik who said that.

I’m surprised the RAV4 is the top-selling crossover; I shopped one a few months ago and found the interior unpleasant.

Ford Escape Hybrid! (am I doing this right?)

The EcoBoosts have not been the problem.  The warranty claims are on other stuff, transmission issues, faulty seatbelt tensioners, AC evaporator cores, door latches, heat shielding.  The engines themselves have probably been overall better than the Triton motors that proceeded them.

I thought the Explorer rollout problem had a lot to do with Ford just straight up botching everything about setting up the manufacturing process and managing to piss off the union at exactly the same time.

Weird. It’s like you can buy old technology for less than new technology.

I just use regular snow tires. If it gets deep I take my truck with regular snow tires. Oddly, I prefer up my way where they pretty much just plow. Get closer to town and they start to use sand/salt which just turns everything into a sloppy, dirty mess with constantly changing surface conditions. A nicely cleared snowy…

“If you get an actual car, your chances of having a handbrake are still pretty good.“

Nah it’s a well known fact. Hydroplaning happens at 38 MPH, time travelling happens at 88 MPH.

Anything to get them higher up. One of the worst modern car design trends is the terrible placement of the rear blinkers like a foot and a half off the ground, making them effectively invisible in any nontrivial amount of traffic.

Cadillac needs to take a long, hard look at Lincoln and get back to the opulence of their distant past.  Leave the Nurburgring times to the Germans, spend your money on design and interior.

The American method of car buying is to have hundreds of cars on the lot to choose from to take home RIGHT NOW.