I don’t want to rain on your parade, but my family’s ‘92 Taurus needed new engine mounts quarterly, didn’t wind up eating the head gasket, but did grenade its transmission before 85k on the clock.

Ironically, I feel like pickup truck buyers who buy them for work will be the among the fastest group to adopt electric pickup trucks. The savings in fuel alone will probably make it worth it. Throw in a modicum of off-roading ability for those unpaved job sites and features like 240V power outlets, and you’ve created…

CA voter here and I think that’s the one thing that’s going to make me vote ‘NO’. As a product of two public school teachers, I’m usually on the pro-labor / pro-union side of things but not in this case. Taxi companies (organized crime?) have been charging too much and providing horrible service for decades, so no…

Every single Uber/Lyft/Doordash/etc worker I know plans to vote yes on 22. They aren’t stupid and can read the writing on the wall if AB5 goes through.

I disagree with absolutely every assertion Erik writes here, and hope that AB5 dies the miserable death it so richly deserves.

All the people who keep ragging on Uber and Lyft are going to wake up one day in CA to no ridesharing services at all - and all the people that were making SOME money off their side gig will now be making NO money off their side gig. Like the old saying goes, “Be careful what you ask for”.

Anthropogenic climate change and ocean acidification are not political topics. They are scientific phenomenon that demand immediate response. And they need to be considered in every car review. Period. At a minimum so a conscientious purchaser who really wants a TRX can figure out a way to mitigate the damage his new…

The tag on the keychain and the paper footwell protectors have me thinking this is a buy-here-pay-here place or someone who sells used cars as a side hustle.

Ram actually had to dig for a supplier that could meet their needs in producing the world’s largest production car spring in the kind of quantity needed for this beast.

As likely the only owner of a BMW 850 that posts here. This is CP. I would offer 15K Tops and only because of the 6 Speed Manual, 163K puts it into how much maintenance has been done and how much deferred maintenance has yet to be paid for. How many owners has this passed thru that said, to expensive to fix. 

I use the “old” Tesla FSD every day. The car will tell you when it can’t hack it. Bad weather, dew on a pillar camera, weird lines, heavy construction, etc.

I mean, ok, but it still depends on how often you’re actually doing these things. $100/day gets you 100 days of traveling before you hit $10k. And that ignores the other costs of actually owning a car, like parking (in NYC, that’s probably 4/5 days worth of renting a month, minimum), insurance (which is much more…

Take the friends having babies out of the equation. You will find they will start hanging out with other couples with kids. They have no single friends other than the ones they are trying to fix you up with.

You guys have missed a very important fact: Parking a car in NYC is eye-wateringly expensive.

That is not the point at all. This has nothing to do with its capabilities. It has everything to do with the fact that it still requires full vigilance from the driver, and as such is not a full self-driving system. Read the damn article. It’s free!

This is why people tolerate Tesla’s poor build quality and Elon’s antics: NO DEALERS!!!!!

Getting ready to put her away for the winter, actually! The Miata I bought during furlough has treated me right all summer and fall, and right now every time I get a chance to drive it I just feel lucky that there’s no salt on the roads yet.

Why are people still buying these lemons!?

As someone for whom this segment had been his professional lifeblood for a few years before the demise of the ST/RS, I am frankly shocked by the hot hatch price rises over the course of the past few years. I’ll grant that overall car prices are rising to account for, in addition to other things, shit tons of standard…