So Toyota sold 2.1 million units in 2020 and Mazda sold about 280,000, but sales of the CX-30 and C-HR were about the same. The CX-30 is insanely popular for a subcompact crossover/SUV/whatever. People really like them. If Mazda is betting people would prefer a really good, proven car with electrification over…

FWIW I thought it was like any AAA game released on PS2. Standards are a lot higher now for stability, as they should be, but it was a nice throwback with pretty good premise and mechanics. It wasn’t perfect, but nothing is these days. 

I laughed. Delightful. 

Take a nap boomer

Do you really drive 500+ miles without a single 22 minute stop. Do you really. 

I truly see Tesla’s value in being in the SuperCharger network and maybe licensing FSD (if it works) in the future, rather than their cars.

You can say that about any car. “How do I know that this 2021 Altima was in good running condition for all 6 months its been on your lot... yeah I thought so.” And you can definitely say that about any car on NP/ND. Stop being a fucking pendant. 

I just sort of doubt that anyone who could afford a year-old M3 and kept it for the next 25 years was religiously beating the shit out of it.

Yeah, I agree with you. If you want a clean, factory, 2 owner E36 M3 that hasn’t been whipped to an inch of its life, this is what it costs.

I had to buy two cars this year. I had Tom scoop up a new 2020 Elantra in January because I had a feeling things were gonna get messy with the chip shortage I kept hearing about. Got it about $5k under sticker after paperwork fees plus tax and tags. Good foresight. I also won a 2016 S3 at auction and couldn’t believe…

There’s 18 months of purchasing / lease exit/rollover necessities happening in the span of 6 months, when the production in the 12 months prior had been cut in half. There’s probably a few people who want to upgrade without a great reason, but my brother had an engine go out on his car, my sister in law blew a trans…

Shut up boomer

They’re out there but they’re $35k because everyone wants that

The 6MT coupes run about $18-25k and are relatively robust mechanically. The 6MT spyders are pretty rare and start around $25k for a no-stories, moderately well maintained driver, and just go up from there.

If this car needs and gets $10,000 in work, it will certainly be more than $14k. If you drive it into the ground and don’t fix/maintain anything, it will certainly be less. Budgeting $1-2k a year to be out of pocket in depreciation, maintenance, or net restoration costs is probably a reasonable expectation, which…

Tough call. Thorough PPI needed with a clutch readout. The general consensus is any cambiocorsa for sale under 20 needs a clutch and F1 pump (bout $6-7k), but also, if you put it in sport mode and lift for shifts the new ones can both last 40-50k. This is a dry clutch automated manual and not a DCT, so treat it like a…

I also cannot stand Honda’s infotainment and steering wheel controls

Max has the option of braking later because he was on the outside of a high-speed turn and could still make the apex, cmon man this is basics

Forcing a driver to surrender their lead because someone else is a bad driver is the antithesis to racing. I don’t give two shits about Max or Hamilton or RBR or Mercedes, it’s just car racing to me. But saying Max had an obligation to avoid him is like driving past a car in the left shoulder with its trunk smashed int…

I’m not gonna pretend to have watched every F1 race since the dawn of time, but my view on it was Max had better track position, was further ahead, and could complete the corner in a manner consistent with a pretty standard racing line. Hamilton can’t say any of those things. A reasonable spectator would look at both…