Any Ranger we'd get now would be the size of the Colorado, and Ford absolutely will not produce a truck the size of the old Ranger until someone else sunk the cost to prove there's a market or the car landscape (regulations, public tastes, etc) drastically changes.

Add national distribution to the list. The Focus EV was/is hard to get outside of a few select states, whereas Leafs are everywhere.

It amuses me you bought a 500L Trekking to replace an '07 GTI. Was there some appeal to the FIAT that made you buy it over something like a Ford Fiesta/Focus?

Because the truck in the image is a Canyon, so it doesn't need a big honking V8 just to move itself?

Current Dart owner here. I love it, but you're delusional if you think it favorably compares to a BMW 5. On test drives sure; try living with it. My dials have gotten a little loose with age so now lightly brushing them when shifting is enough to get the fan from low to full blast, and the volume dial loves to stop…

That sounds like it could have easily gone wrong.

Around 3,000 a month isn't bad. Certainly doesn't hold a candle to most true minivans, but it can hold its own niche.

Your disdain is showing. I just want to point out that those kids were not the ones handing out the trophies to make everyone feel better.

I'd like to know too, but the only information I can find is this C&D article that states they use 5000-series aluminum for less important areas and 6000-series aluminum for the high stress areas. That's not enough information to go on, since 6000-series aluminum is a broad series that makes everything from bicycle…

The Ford Focus has a thing called EcoMode that judges you on three criteria: Gear Shifting, Anticipation, and Speed. It's geared for economy, but that has the side effect of critiquing harsh driving. Shifting at the redline, braking hard, braking only to accelerate again, and going fast all make you lose petals. You…

F30 does it too, the lights on the trunklid that double as rear fog lights in Europe light up.

So then, what makes it to the US? Are we getting the V90 to replace the XC70 or skipping the pure wagon for the inevitable V90 Cross Country? Anything but the S40 coming here? Any three cylinder engines or only various outputs of four cylinders?

Remember that it is only a suggestion because the CHP cannot write laws, so they cannot make the guidelines any tougher than that, but they'd be plenty happy to pull you over for reckless riding if you tempt them.

Audi is also touting a virtual "butler" feature that identifies the driver based on their phone, and then adjusts everything from the seat to the temperature to the music and route preferences to suit.

It's still a little early to release specific pricing detail, but obviously it will fit in above the XTS and CTS in pricing. It's complicated to price new- technology lightweight cars- it costs a lot of money to reduce weight, but it enables engineers to extract great performance from smaller engines, because the…

This also assumes other debts aren't a factor. I am pulling just shy of $60k a year, no kids, no mortgage, but a $500-600/mo car payment is way out of line of what I can afford due to student loans. If I didn't have that payment, then sure, I could spend that much on a car.

Wording has subtle differences in meaning, so I want to clarify that our laws do not expressly ban laser headlights. Rather, they're old (circa late 1960s) laws that never imagined certain technologies and largely haven't been amended as technology improves. Therefore, the technologies are implicitly banned by not…

Other variants of the ad campaign include large sections of the speech.

It's from a Teddy Roosevelt speech.

Which hints at probably one reason why enforcement is so lax. Say for instance a coal roller is traveling on a Pennsylvania interstate: Only a few counties in PA have a strict emissions inspection, the rest get a visual inspection that doesn't really matter; this stratification is written into state law and enforced…