I agree completely! I generally avoid any youtube type reviews of anything. I was car shopping last year and watched a handful of videos about Mazda CX5 and CX50, and they were crap. Full of useless trivia, obvious errors and bad takes, and they seemed to be people with a decent number of followers. I’ll stick with…

I’ve driven a Vinfast VF8, in America, that was available for immediate lease. It was fairly poor, but it certainly wasn’t ‘vaporware’.

She says pilot FOUR times. And then he calls her a stewardess which is still not a correct term for flight attendant.

I watched the review and kept waiting for the part that showed how bad the car was. It was all just stupid piddly shit. Just a few random software and user interface type things. I actually thought the car seemed really cool with some interesting and unusual features. The only thing that did seem not so great was the…

It’s fine and well to criticize Elaine Chao for the decisions made and policies implemented during her tenure as our Secretary of Transportation; but to suggest that she could have somehow prevented this specific incident involving her sister seems like quite a stretch, and quite frankly in poor taste. Let’s make sure…

I’d use a pitching machine.

I wouldn’t expect much with the way they threw, definitely need someone with decent aim and velocity. I was never near being any kind of baseball prospect but I can throw harder and more accurately than they were, and I can throw heavy (I’m a sidearm thrower and regularly skip stones well over a pound). What they need…

So you need commonsense controls to get a 5-star rating...works for me.  Especially since manufacturers aren’t about to increase their costs by building a button version for the Euros and a screen version for us.  IE: global trade helping us also.

It’s especially amazing considering GMC and Chevy trucks were made on the exact same assembly line using the exact same body parts most of the time when the GM Janesville plant was still open

As long as the company has existed, they’ve been very close to failing. Simply speaking, they’re not a huge name to the people who actually buy those types of cars.

I was somehow put in charge of leading a half dozen Canadians on a scooter tour around the Greek island of Corfu. I was bartending at a hostel/commune/family farm/asylum when the owner handed me the keys to a scooter and one of the paper tablecloths, which had a rudimentary map of the island.

Yeah, but only for “those people”

MAGA rants about the “illegals” at the border and, in public, say they have issues not with their ethnicity but that the are breaking the law, YET somehow they are ok with breaking the law themselves, or their kids breaking the law, or their orange god breaking the law.

God damn, I had a ‘15 X5 with the 3.0 turbo. It was an amazing SUV. 110K on it and not one problem. Got totaled-which was a shame-but it saved the lives of my family.

E39 M5 owner here (MY02) and it’s above 180K miles. Still runs like a champ and will take out supercars on the local track. Never getting rid of it. It’s been so reliable, hence the crazy amount of miles on it, as I used it daily (even in the winter). Nowadays, it’s been retired from daily duties as a weekend warrior,…

Agreed! We had a flawless 2015 X5d and replaced it with the new 2024 BMW X5 50e and it’s been great so far.

10 year-old 535i here, same experience. The only thing I’ve had to do was, shocking, replace the valve cover gasket at about 90k. But it’s also fully maintained and garaged/kept clean. I keep thinking it’s time for a new car but as long as this one stays mostly problem-free it’s hard to justify in the current price env…

Yep, I have a 25 year old M3 (e36) as a daily, I beat the snot out of it on the autocross course, drive it in the winter and occasionally go on long trips in it during the summer. It’s generally been quite reliable, certainly no issues I haven’t also had with other brands. The electronics are top notch, the engine…

I don’t know how they do it, but the Japanese can make cars that can take a lot of neglect and abuse and still start every time and run perfectly, their plastics don’t crack and they only start burning oil after 250k miles.

I have a 10 year old X5 diesel with 140K miles on the clock and it has been nothing but solid and reliable.  There are no squeaks and rattles, all the electronics work (including the self-closing doors), and it still feels every bit as good as when it was a much younger vehicle.  Compare that to my A7 PHEV which,…