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Torchinsky finally writes something I know about! How do I know about wonky Buick turn signals? My old man owned a 1941 Buick he restored when I was a youngster. Read more

Remember the guy from Apple who took over running JC Penny? His plan was to say hell to all this sale-every-day shit and just lower prices across the board. It went something like this: Read more

3rd Gear: What the contract says about salaried employees doing the work of hourly employees. Paragraph 215: Read more

It looks atrocious without doors. It’s as if they were done styling the vehicle, showed it to a focus group of Jeep owners, and the focus group said, “Wait, the doors don’t come off? No bueno!” After management said the doors have to be removable, design moved the mirrors, put on two piece door hinges that can be… Read more

Perhaps we could have a breakaway nation of F-150 owners, people too afraid to do anything so risky as, I don’t know, buy a Dodge. Read more

I’m gonna go out and say maybe a subscription to a site that offers recipes and cooking tips. Read more

I’m gonna go out and say maybe a subscription to a site that offers recipes and cooking tips.

The difference between a good pork chop and a dry puck, the difference between succulent chicken and chicken that will kill you, and the difference between a tasty steak and something the president would order? Temperature.

The difference between a good pork chop and a dry puck, the difference between succulent chicken and chicken that…

All Mustangs through 1969 - 4 lug wheel = 6 cylinder

Of the cars you’d never expect, the Cadillac CT6 has (had?) available 4WS. It comes along with the handling package that gets you magnetorheological shocks.

Both have their place. Read more

Nonetheless, Tesla states that current Autopilot features require “active driver supervision” Read more

Towing mirrors extended when not towing is code that the driver is trolling for dudes... Read more

Audioslave’s Challenger-centric Vanishing Point/Thelma and Louis mash-up for the Show Me How to Live video:

If you have a modern vehicle, use what the manufacturer recommends. In the owner’s manual, along with the viscosity (that’s the 5W30, 0W20, or whatever), there will be some type of specification: VW 507.00, MB 229.5, GM Dexos 1 Gen 2, etc. Follow that spec, change it when the car tells you to, and you’ll be fine. Read more

Saturn Ion

The Hummer H2 SUT had a fun party trick. There was a switch that would simultaneously express-down all five power windows (four door windows, plus the mid-gate window) with a single push:

The engine was an utter dog. It was underpowered for the application and returned shit fuel economy. Read more

This is a bigger enigma than Mack’s feelings about the Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye. Read more

The entire launch of the new Ram has been very unique. How a typical truck launch goes: Read more

Except that wasn’t really true at the time. When the fortwo launched in 2008, it was the most fuel efficient gasoline-powered vehicle on the new car market at 33/41 MPG. To get better fuel economy, you either had to buy a diesel or a hybrid. It retained that title until 2011, when it was dethroned by the Scion iQ. It… Read more