Mom to child calling for a ride home from soccer practice, “Sorry, honey, you’ll just to hang out at school for awhile. I can’t pick you up till the Model X recharges.”

Ah yes, nothing like awkward teenage car sex to endear a vehicle to you forever. That would make a great Jalopnik poll/user participation feature, something like most unlikely vehicles you like mostly because you got laid in one.

So this GM thing is pretty much as I explained it and caught grief here on it quite some time ago. Without the public having experience with engineering change notices, field failures, field service issues, and so on it is easy for various people to play things up into a vast evil conspiracy when really all it comes…

Windshield wipers need to be able to withstand exposure to water. Who knew? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Please, anybody: Don’t buy the 2 Gran tourer. If you do, they’ll think it’s likeable. Which is not true.

*cue fast talking announcer voice*

I always enjoy the:

click..click..click..click..clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick

of u-joints or cv joints giving up the ghost.

“Good morning, Mr. Ash, and welcome to Ridgeview Audi-LandRover-Jaguar. How can we help you today?”

The difference is that “new GM” senior management isn’t the same people as “old GM” senior management. Almost all of the old executives are gone and their replacements were not previously in roles where they were privy to this information.

And they’re not going to. The double whammy of trade deals that make it easy to ship jobs offshore and the rise of the “right to work” model have eviscerated even the once mighty UAW.

Wrong message to display, Toyota.

I think it’s captivating in the same way a train wreck is, or the world’s ugliest dog contest.

Well, get used to it, you’ll be sitting and staring at that butt in front of you doing 67mph in the left lane soon enough.

So this is what we will be stuck behind when they are going 10 miles under the speed limit in the left lane.

I for one will be massively relieved when the bullshit fad over autonomous cars dies off.Not because ACs are intrinsically wrong.Like many here, i too would occasionaly love to drive without thinking.
It’s just the stupidity of it all that irritates!

I think the average age of a new Civic buyer in Europe/UK is 107.

I’m not sure how much the authorities can do here anyway. They didn’t see the violations committed and wouldn’t be able to testify to who was driving the vehicle at the time. You could bring in witnesses, but then the other side would have their own witnesses, and are you going to really do all that for a traffic…

So claiming DI effectively gets the authorities off your back until they they prove you wrong? It seems to have bought the driver plenty of time...

I was sure it was because they need to boil their sausages...

I don’t even know why they falsely claimed Diplomatic Immunity, this is America, they have Wealthy Immunity.