Back in the summer of 05 I rented a trailblazer adorned with one of these lumps and drove from San Fran to DC over 16 days via many places on the way. So the trailblazer and that 4.2 will always have a place in my heart so its not forgotten yet.

I think most people realize that a deal will reached.

With Russia currently having 2 ice breakers stuck in ice until may they need some more.

Sounds like everyone is paying for something that is not great and few use.

I thought Liberals were the tolerant ones? Looking in from Europe it seems that is not the case.

This is a car blog. I come here to read about cars not this.

even a brand new car has likely had a good 5 drivers before you.

well that strategy works for tesla. 

I must admit this is disappointing to see this on Jalopnik. I come here to read about automotive stuff there is plenty of other sites with other themes I can look at if I want to. And anyway isn’t taking a ice breaker along to help cheating?

They have a long, long way to go. If clarkson et al pull it off its probably over for top gear.

I have had the joy of driving one of these automotive delights. I do not know what my best memory of the experience will be. Could it be the loss of speed at the slightest gradient? so impressive was this feature that it could detect gradients not visible to the human eye. Could it be the non existent power steering…

There is so many other uses for oil though than just filling your gas tank and as more people get out of poverty they are going to start to get cars use gas not electricity. There will be ups and downs in price but oil isn’t going anywhere.

A remap will get you 160bhp from a 1.0 ecoboost. Fiats twin air makes 105bhp standard. This is not that good really.

At the moment Tesla is a fashion item, It wont stay that way forever. Whats going to happen when you miss your genius appointment because your tesla is broken again?

There is some poor guy near me drives a range rover current model probably $100k worth with v12 badges all over it.

Come on guy and gals man up, if you cannot cope with this how you going to cope when today’s modern stuff gets in to this price range? your looking a simple electrics here and its all well documented. Thousands if not tens of thousands of people have had any problem before you and forums are plastered with how to deal…