Maybe if there wasn’t such an up-charge for interesting colors... If I need to choose between an extra $1,000 for a color I like or putting that towards a performance package, then guess what...
I’d buy a car in BMW Marina Blue, but for the extra cost, black it is.  I truly believe that if manufacturer’s made something…

Ok, I’m game to take an unpopular opinion here but... NO. At least around here most of the parking lots where this would be beneficial are so busy that I think this is unsafe, or at least inconsiderate.  Just back in if you want to be nose-out.

All that unsprung mass looks like a fun, expensive, way to ruin a ride.  

This isn’t just a problem with autonomous or semi-autonomous features. Any amount of software between my foot and the brakes is just dangerous.

I do appreciate that Nader’s book and his advocacy eventually saved countless lives. I’m glad for the necessary safety improvements that came along as a result of the book.

Let’s also not forget that the corvair engines were “Good and Weird”. The flat six air cooled engine is really fascinating in its simplicity and weird with an aluminium crank case and heads and individual iron cylinders sandwiched in between. It really is as much of a shocking and experimental departure for GM as the…

The Lakewood wagons, greenbriar vans, and rampside pickups did all have the engine mounted under the cargo area. The cargo floor was lifted a bit, and there were air inlets on the rear body above the wheel arches.

There’s a company called Eaton, which has a campus in Beaver PA.  It is known as the Eaton Beaver campus.  I apologize for finding that relevant to this conversation.

I had something very similar happen to me. I was returning a minivan to a small lot at a rural California airport. There was nobody working at the rental car desk, so I dropped the key in the return slot and left. A week later I was doing my expense report for work and called to ask why they had not emailed me a…

Move over “Unintended Acceleration” and hello to “Unintended Asphyxiation”

“er fahrt so gut”

Mayo was the single worst part of visiting South Africa (and that includes the pickpockets, murderers, and union tough guys with machetes). They put mayo on EVERYTHING. You couldn’t escape it. I ordered a “salad” and I got a bowl of shredded carrots drowned in mayo.  That is distressing!  They also had a thing called…

Looks like someone shrunk a Jeep Renegade:

My neighbor:

You are absolutely correct. With the electric motor directly in control of the drive train, the vehicles software controls the deceleration and can make it as smooth or abrupt as you like.

There’s always the Corvair Greenbrier if you like weird, spacious, and rear-engined.

The best clusters have information you need if you are actually driving a car. Not being merely transported about in a four wheeled computer.

These small cab-overs are fantastic, but as the saying goes... if you drive one and are in an accident, you’ll be the first to arrive.

Came here for this. What a unique and useful design! Plus, with the engine in back, you don’t have the noise, heat, and space problems of a normal cab-over. The cabins in those things are absolutely spacious.

I just saw one of the Bertone ones a couple of weeks ago. No clue why it was parked behind our building...