I’m almost willing to guess you’ve got a Ford. Love most of what they do, especially of late, but they seem to thing their average customer base is Quasimoto (or their seat designer has a wicked case of nerd-neck). The best workaround I’ve found for them is to add 2-clicks of recline to the seat, and pull the…

Just keep in mind that most shops run about $100/hr. Investigative work is more often than not more expensive than just R&R on a whole system. Not all the time, mind you, but often enough to be a rule.

Wow. You (snail) darter’d in with the first comment. I can Tellico that you’re on the ball today.

Canada’s Prim Minister.

*rant to those who will subsequently comment. I’m with you on this one.

So... a Half ton with aftermarket wheels (or newer OEM Swap)? Believe me. Bro trucks were always Bro trucks. They just built ‘em a little different. Just swap 22+in wheels for balloon tires and LED bars for a roll-bars / headache racks.

This was the first thing I noticed, as well, but upon second look it makes good sense from a design compromise perspective. Take a look at how the extended roofline was married into the C-Pillar. Likely for crash safety and NVH reasons, they had to keep the original C/D-Pillar(s?), which run(s) bang-on through the…

Hey, now... van Roij is a perfectionist when it comes to his customization works. He wanted to retain the look and feel of something that just rolled off the Tesla production line.

Starred for “zip-tied hubcaps for 150+ mph stints” alone. Love the mental image.

Besides the obvious answer of this truck getting poor mileage regardless of what connects “6.2L supercharged V8" to “Dana 60 w/ 3.73:1 gears and a locker”, the 4L80e doesn’t really give up much in the way of highway mileage to its newer, heavier, more complicated counterparts. 4th gear in the 4L80 is 0.75:1, while 6th…

Eh. Go easy on David. All the Jalopnik writers are contractually obligated to bitch about anything larger than a 1989 Mazda 2200 (the vehicle explicitly mentioned in their contracts) unless it’s European or costs a sufficient amount of coin that plebs could never hope to attain it.

The 4l60e’s a fine transmission so long as you understand that they have a power limit, a couple of weak points (weak input shafts, bad filters, undersized wave plates, and questionable valve bodies - yay!) and that they have an expiration date when put behind anything bigger than an atlas I6.

You really think Trudeau is going to call Trump’s hand? Naah, man. He’s going to piss, moan, and capitulate. What’s more, he’s likely going to play the victim instead of trying to preempt Trump’s play in the manner I mentioned above.

While I won’t disagree that Trump trumps opinion is that trade deficits are enriching other countries, he does have a point in a number of cases. I don’t, however, think that he actually wants to see US international trade dry up. As I mentioned in my comment above, I think that the ultimate goal of Trump’s tariff…

Weren’t the battery packs one of the major bottlenecks on the Model 3 production line?

Hey, glad to be on the same page as you for once here!I’m glad to see that Elon is finally making moves to start accounting for company cash flow / profitability. My issues with Tesla has always been a lack of clear path to profitability and a massive dependence on direct government funding programs (that, and enough…

While I don’t doubt that Canada is going to try and find other countries to trade with - assuming all this goes through - I don’t really see China buying stuff from Canada, save maybe oil. That would go directly against China’s best interest, and China is decidedly not in the business of going against its own best…

God, I hope this is the case, but I hope even more so that cooler heads on both sides prevail. If Trump is looking for an example where the US can take a bloody nose to curb stomp an opponent, Canada certainly fits the bill (I.E. punitive US tariffs would wreck Canadian industry), but it still seems in poor taste to…

I suppose Rob never clarified between the classical or progressive variety. Lawyered, maybe?

Not that I can say for the driver of this car, but they could be using trip A for something like oil changes. I often use Trip B for this, even though I keep relatively easy to remember intervals.