Another weird wrinkle is the lack of inspections you need for tags. I lived in Michigan for 4 years, and one of the wildest things I noticed was how many rusted out and half-wrecked vehicles that would never pass a roadworthiness checkup elsewhere were still rolling around.

Regardless of the valid meaning for of this charade, I feel like using a bunch of Toyota branding to set up a fake press conference where you impersonated them would get this activist group sued into oblivion. 

I don’t think anyone really needs an explanation. Mid 2000's to early 2010's Top Gear was awesome, but it was starting to go a bit stale even before sandwich-gate happened. There were a few more gems during the late years and Grand Tour, but the dead horse has been thoroughly beaten.

I always found it genuinely hilarious that the spiritual home to the American automobile industry is also so incredibly hostile towards it, through the worst roads in America and outrageous insurance rates/legislation.

What sucks is that it seems to me as the mainstream media is reporting this as an indictment of the EV market in general. Public confidence in EV’s has enough of an uphill battle on it’s hands, it doesn’t need to be catching all this collateral damage from King Chud.

This is the correct answer. “Fun Manual and Easy Maintenance” is the starting argument for the C5 Vette.

To some people, this is fun! Not me, but I won’t kink-shame.

Right? Even though I don’t agree with Lewin’s thoughts on the movie in general, there wasn’t much straight-up fodder for hardcore gearheads and racing fans. It was a drawn out story about grief and family drama, with racing as a sort of sidecar.

Agreed, but I don’t know if you can prove that. I don’t really know if there’s any proof unless there’s some camera footage to ID the owner driving. Maybe there’s some injuries, but that’s a prayer for *proof*.

1. I agree

The last gen Silverado’s were the worst of both worlds. They were way too high and poorly aimed. Everyone I know that had one would get flashes from oncoming constantly when their low beams were on. 

Part of this increase can be explained by a nationwide trend toward riskier driving practices in recent years.

The hilarious irony of it is that the trucks were historically the good thing about GM, while the smaller cars were the rolling disasters. Meanwhile, the current gen small block has had major issues with the lifters since its inception, and these little crossovers are actually quite good? What a world.

If anything, I’m thinking that beat up STI is a better choice for a “fun” car, assuming a project is your idea of fun. Then use the other 30 grand on the best actual daily you can get.

Just as maddening when running into the same issue regarding greenhouse gas emissions. We made people’s lives great in the 20th century with a bunch of shit that wasn’t sustainable beyond a few generations. Now your going to expect people to willingly correct that? Nope, for the same reason that somebody who loved…

What I’m reading from this validates a belief I’ve held for completely unrelated reasons: The only cars on sale to the public should be late 20th century plastic wedges, like RX7's, C4 & C5 Corvettes, etc.

I think if you saw someone get hit by a car from the days before the referenced law, then a car from after it, and then a modern SUV, it’d be pretty easy to rank the three from worst to best for the pedestrian.

I think the fact that they are blaming it on the software signals how far out of their element they are. Making a car that heavy with that long of a wheelbase good offroad isn’t impossible, but its not a problem you solve with computers (at least not by themselves).

I doubt the suspension was so much a rush job as much as it was an afterthought. My guess is most of the last 5 years was figuring out how on earth to produce the CT shaped like it is out of stainless steel.

Not holding my breath for that one. There are plenty of things right about Toyota, but their dealer network is explicitly not one of them.