On the few times a year when I’m driving long distances through the hinterlands, I switch to AM for a few hours of listening to what a subset of the masses are talking about. Mark Levin (oof) and Dave Ramsey are usually entertaining for about 30 minutes until I have to switch to something else. Ramsey is not…

So the callers are paying $1,200 a month for an EV that they owe $62,000 on. To me, that’s dumb. But, is the EV under warranty, making maintenance inexpensive? Is it running properly? Does it meet their transportation needs? Can they charge at home and save money on gas? Can they afford the payment even though they…

Or the wife could get a job instead of, I dunno, calling into a radio/podcast show and painting her bread-winning hubby as a chump.

Nobody forces you to use these millions settings. Default settings are usually best settings. The beauty of infotainment systems is that you can go crazy with available settings without making the interior look like a DC-8 cockpit. Agreed that volume knob and HVAC controls should remain physical, but other than that…

I’m pretty sure that it’s just Jalopnik giving up on EVs.

The infamous timing set from the Audi 4.2 V8....why?

Just the V160 transmission on its own right now is worth about $12,000. Rebuild it to factory fresh and you’ll get about $20k.

Just throw a dealer plate and thin blue line flag on it and you’ll be ok.

I’d get the Accord.

It was significant news in 2022, and Toyoda was repeatedly forced to comment on it. Take whatever you want from it, but Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and other very high profile environmental activist groups placed Toyota at the bottom of their recommend vehicle lists for their failure to go all in on EVs.

Toyota was selling a hybrid in the US a full decade before the Volt.

Well no matter what car you have if you start the year with 350k on the clock and drive another 67k you’re going to reasonably expect some healthy repairs. Maintenance includes consumables so it’s counting 7 oil changes minimum (probably double that for a lot of cars) at $100 each minimum, at least one set of tires at…

Taking the numbers given at face value works out to a 20% profit margin. Most businesses don’t do that well.

Any internal combustion engined car. When gas costs $100 / gallon in 2030 and you’re still paying your 96 month loan, you will have regrets

I mean it blows the Z out of the water in every performance regard, so much so that the Z needs the NISMO pack to match its performance. That being said, I’m a diehard Toyota fan and I wouldn’t buy it. Having a BMW engine is disappointing enough, but having a BMW transmission, guages, shifter, switchgear, iDrive,…

The BMW Supra has a better interior, arguably a better platform to modify (If you get the ECU unlocked), Has performance features like a LSD standard and I think it looks better than the Z.

Carmax didn’t want your cyberclunk.

“They can sell it for $150,000 to $200,000 so fast....”

It’s an election year.  It’s time for another border crisis.  Nothing stirs up xenophobia like a coming election.

If people still insist used cars are the only affordable way. Then new cars will still go wildly up in price. Cars getting more expensive is like colleges getting more expensive. More unnecessary luxury stuff and the assumption that expensive=better. Even if customers demanded smaller cheaper cars manufactures would…