Torch and Tracy are gone for less than a week and I’m already seriously considering removing this site from my feed reader :( 

On a CAR centric website?

What the fuck is this? Written by someone who has no concept of reality outside of NYC? On a CAR centric website?

I used to do work like this. we had a guy at the docks that would call when a container ship full of TV/VCR combos would come in, he would tell me what truck and what highway it was on

As the resident ( I think only) actual honest-to-goodness Train Conductor on the Jalop message board, I’ll comment on a few things here:

I tried that once. Turns out that using up over an hour of your day tracking what you do in your day is a gigantic waste of time and provides no benefit whatsoever.

The tweet complains about quality control while sharing a picture of an issue found during... a quality control process.

Sells roughly 100k a year = “a non starter”.

I am not a fan of that empty space on the floor between the front seats.

Auto stop/start. From what I can tell it really doesn’t impact overall fuel economy that much and just makes for jerky starts at stoplights and stop and go traffic. It’s an automatic motion for me now to turn it off when I start the car. 

The worst are power seats without  memory. So the slow motors makes it take forever to get the seat back where it belongs after someone else drives the car, but it could be easier if someone hadn’t objected to an extra $2 electronic module.

Bigger wheels as a premium option. Why? 18" standard is already too large - why the hell would you want even more rim and less tire? Ruin ride quality AND pay more for tires over time. 

That’s going to be an unpopular opinion. I had a Lexus with a heated steering wheel for 4 years and my spouse asks if every other vehicle we consider acquiring has that feature.  Any vehicle without heated seats wouldn’t be considered.

84 months at 0% is that really terrible if you plan to keep the car for 7 years? Many people do keep their cars for longer. 

You’d think that manufacturers selling a product that costs as much as some houses would be a little more focused on quality,

Good point, things worked out just fine for Edsel!

The difference between 197 inches and 185 is huge. They aren’t roughly the same size - they are in different classes.

The union thing is shitty.  Period.  

Edmunds got the Corolla Cross to hit 60 mph in 9 seconds.