When I was 18, I was dating this girl and owned a beater of a 1985 GMC Sierra. 2wd, short cab, long bed, manual transmission, 4.3 V6. Not the ideal car to take a girl on an date. I sold it and bought a ‘95 Monte Carlo Z34. I thought it was the most amazing car ever(I remind you, I was 18). I babied it. Synthetic oil…

You want to keep people at dealerships? Fire all general managers. Every one I’ve met, and some service managers too, are selfish, greedy assholes. Saying the economy is slow so you can’t have a pay raise to keep up with inflation, but show off the brand new Escalade they just bought or the over complicated tire…

Haha, touché

Well he did say “a tree”

Good. I want gas guzzling muscle car prices to bottom out.

He said tree, not crowd.

THIS

It bothers the crap out of me when I can see a missing engine or spot an air ram meant to flip a car.

You see a shark fin and a ramp NOW? Not when “ejecto seato cuz!”? Not when they went to Tokyo to JDM-ify a Mustang? Not when CGI car chase through caves? (I still can’t help but stare at the Subaru’s lack of a driveshaft at the end of that one) Not when Letty died? Not when dragging a safe behind two Dodge Chargers?…

You’d be surprised how many people are ok with a “plain” Aventador over the SV. I still say it’s a bad idea and it should be a companion model to the regular Corvette.

Well unless it becomes its own brand in the US, which is unlikely since here we all know a Corvette is a Chevy, it’ll fail. I doubt many people will line up to buy a car from Chevrolet that costs $100k-ish. I know the ZR-1 was $100k, but that was the time top trim level, not the base car. Plus once it’s sent overseas,…

But it isn’t a brand. If it were, like what FCA did to Ram, fine. Make more models, different models under the Corvette name. It’s not though, and the thought behind messing with the basic model of what a Corvette is and completely changing it is what’s weird to me. It’s completely changing the market it would be for.…

It comes off as weird to me. That would to me be like if when the Bolt comes out they decide to call it Camaro. The Corvair at least was a sedan, coupe, convertible, and arguably one of the coolest vans ever built. Corvette has always been a sports car. It would be extremely odd to completely change it. Maybe it's a…

“Wasn’t something special supposed to happen at 88mph?”

I really, truly hope GM has a sense of humor and calls this thing a Corvair. Deviating from old Corvettes by losing the pop ups and round tail lights isn’t a game changer, but changing it from a sports car to a super car is a bold, and strange, move especially for GM. I can’t see how a supercar Corvette would be as…

Wouldn't running smaller turbos be better if the turbos they run now are choking?

Adam Savage: the everything geek we all aspire to be.

In my experience, most salesmen are full of BS. Usually when a new model comes out the manufacturer has online courses the salespeople are required to take. They tell all the info about the new model, what a customer may ask about it, how to answer, etc. Now I say they’re required to, but what really happens is…

Betcha next one has the Focus RX driven by his teammate Andreas, him in the Hoonicorn, and someone else in his Escort, simultaneously.

In his spare time, Dale should start the most amazing sandwich shop chain ever.