So will Orkin be signing up for the first few hundred in white? :)

Also, kudos to Ford. This is gonna be huge....Hyundai and Honda lack one big thing when it comes to the Pilot & Santa Cruz: truck street cred. While it doesn’t mean so much to mean, I can see lots of buyers willing to give this a chance since it’s a…

we arent allowed to have UTEs in the land of freedom 

Maverick ST Maverick ST Maverick ST.

and they should

This thing got like 1/100th of the buildup and fanfare the Bronco got, but imo, is 100x more important.

This thing is gonna be an absolute fucking game changer. The Santa Cruz has the better truck specs, but the hybrid Maverick is HUGE between the price and mileage. I’m very, very impressed. When I was looking at Rangers before I got my Ram, this might have gotten me to downsize rather than upsize.

If it’s going to rupture ear drums, and possibly tear anything that gets too close to the nozzles to shreds with 1500 mph blasts of air, this is clearly something that has no chance in hell of being allowed to be used on the road. In that case, why bother being limited to the shitty impulse of compressed air instead…

Hell, I can’t even empty the air tank on my 6-gallon air compressor without ear protection.

I don’t think he’s obsessed with acceleration as much as he is with novel solutions. Plus, it’s relatively easy to try. What other car company has rocket thrusters in their extended parts bin?

Oh to be clear, I don’t endorse this type of leadership, in either politicians or CEOs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster

On the Volkswagen front, I’ve written about the crazy high-mileage Jetta Sportwagen TDI in the fleet. It continues to inch its way to 400,000 miles without any problems or even a check engine light.

I have owned an E46 for fourteen years and had a B5 Audi A4 for five.

Interesting and encouraging to hear, I’d love to have an W211 E550 RWD.

Oh yeah, I’ve had to do all those fluid changes, and they cost. The car has been a delight to drive though. 

My 2007 E550- which is supposed to be a ticking time bomb- has had zero issues in the 9 months I’ve owned it. Granted, there’s still plenty of time for the engine to explode and all the air suspension parts to give out, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised so far. 

Most cars are more reliable than people say. One person has a bad experience, repeats it to someone else, that second person picks it up as a lazy joke, repeats it ad nauseam on a motoring site [in times past, in the letters page of a magazine] a comic stuck for a joke picks it up [and exaggerates it] and says it on…

the alternator was my fault for failing to clean mud out of the engine bay after taking the [smart] car into a mud bowl.

Absolutely. I don’t know who this ‘Elizabeth Blackstack’ person is (because it’s confusing with all these new people), but the first few sentences of this piece are absurd. If her entire premise behind this car being a ‘hot mess’ is its high service costs then other people have explained it much better than I ever…

Why the hell do you call Ed Bolian “the new buyer”?