Knowing Apple, BMW is probably on a necessary trajectory to ensure the system stays compatible with your phone. Apple is notorious for updating the phone’s firmware to make it incompatible with your accessories. Those manufacturers not charging anything will most likely allow the system to be obsoleted by a future…

Charleston, SC. Automotive industry is moving in. Great food. Great beaches.

I like Firefox, but I don’t like how I have to re-register the browser with secure sites (like banking) after every update.

Was in a rental once that had an unrecognized light on the dash. This was before smartphones and the gate agent at checkout said it was fine. Drove it the whole day without issue. The next day I was at a facility that had Internet access and googled the light - oil light. I checked the oil and it wasn’t even on the…

There really needs to be a transition that leaves the user flexibility, like plug-in hybrids (that are appealing). It’s something that will cover my daily commute and give me the option to haul my family 50 miles away to the nearest entertainment or to cover other things that may come up in a typical day.

Don’t stop on the Interstate/HWY merge lane!

I think unions provided a great service to this nation during the industrial revolution. They still, occasionally, provide a great service.

So... All the reliability of a BMW M series with a hand-made, dildo-shaped body? Pass. Or, more likely, passed on the side of the road.

The best-designed info-tainment systems shouldn’t require a manual. You can do a lot through the screen to navigate a user through all their available features. It’s the same with all GUIs. Ford’s problem is that Microsoft helped create their system, so you have to constantly deal with “are you sure” and “are you…

This is kinda like saying you had a bad night with 2 chicks at the same time. Roads here are more like a bad jar of Vaseline that dried out.

The Acadia/Traverse are crap. You’ll be replacing transmissions every 65k miles and window switches every 2 years.

I have 3 kids with similar needs. I have to say the 3rd gen Honda Odyssey is the way to go. The 4th gens are getting reasonable, too.

It’s called ECON 101. The price will drop if people are unwilling to pay it.

5th Gear: A GMC Sierra is to a Chevy Silverado what a Buick Regal is to a Chevy Malibu - leather and a badge. For the most part they are simply redundant. The GMC Denalis seem like they would take away from Cadillac sales.

So... you mean the same company that brought you this:

Honda Odyssey vs. Dodge Charger Daytona

I never get tired of laughing at the people that preach Darwinism and “dummies must wear helmets” on the same platform. If people refuse to wear helmets or seatbelts, it’ll naturally thin the herd of stupid people.

It seems to me the root cause of frustration here is the time discrepancy in what the dealer says a job should take and what the mechanics say.

This is the “new” way to get around the duplicate VINs?