Hey Adam, maybe you know the answer to this. I’ve always been curious as to why, despite the increase in console graphical prowess, damage modeling seems to still be curiously absent (aside from the occasional scuff and scrape here and there). Is it because, in an already lengthy and costly development process, it…

What, no Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? /s

I love that, despite the interior being the epitome of late-90's GM cost cutting “plastic fantastic”, some engineer bothered to spend an extra $0.01 and put “ABS” on the brake pedal for no practical reason. Other than likely making its way into a picture for the brochure, no one would ever see or notice it way down…

Working for a rental car company in the late 90's/early aughts, I still have a sore spot in my heart from the shovelware GM was lazily tossing out at the time, and it influences my decisions still to this day. However, I think things have changed, especially under Mary Barra’s leadership, and GM is actually putting…

If I threw every mainstream vehicle sold on the market today into an A.I. blender and asked it to spit out the results, I think this is what it would look like. It also happens to look strikingly similar to the Hyundai Venue.

The Prius was long overdue for some car enthusiast love, and it looks like in 2023 Toyota might have finally given us something that we want to drive rather than an appliance to make some environmental statement or just because you don’t like paying $100 to fill your car up every four days. I predict that it is going…

I can’t remember!

I actually agree, and as someone who likes their in-car audio to sound its best, a wired connection is the way to go. It’s more just a head-scratcher to me, why their flagship luxury models can’t do something that not only most (if not all) other manufacturers can, but even present on their non-nav models. Why would…

Have the engineers sorted out wireless smartphone mirroring? I’ve read several articles where the Hyundai/Kia/Genesis engineers have been promising a fix for several years now. 

Anyone that can afford a $100k luxury sedan can most certainly splurge on delivery of a larger TV. Also, at the age they could afford such a car, they are probably unable to lift anything heavier than an iPad, nor able to clearly see a screen smaller than 70”.

Agreed. I was never a big fan of Nissan’s “v-motion” grilles they stuck on everything. It always looked forced to me, like they wanted something, anything, as a uniform product design element a la the Lexus “spindle body” or the Kia “tiger nose”.

Can you imagine having bought one a week ago? It’s one thing for that pair of AirPods you bought last week to now be on sale for $50 less, but thirteen thousand dollars is on a whole other level of buyer’s remorse.

The DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future.

Infinity QX80. Every time I see one I think “But why though?”. Nothing has changed on this aging dinosaur since 2011 other than the price.

So, if this were to happen in someone’s home, would the homeowner’s insurance cover it?

None. Like pagers of the 90's, it’s time for some see-through acrylics. There’s no hiding from the “intimate encounters” between you and your partner on the highway when everyone can see your business from every angle...

Short but sweet, Dragon Age: Absolution deserves a spot on the ‘to watch” list.

Maybe the Andretti/Cadillac team will be the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” catalyst that turns the Toto Wolff and Christian Horner relationship into the bromance it was always meant to be.

The answer is always Ford EcoSport.

The only real depressing thing for me was more Ecosports sold then Mazda3’s. I’m sure most buyers weren’t cross-shopping the two, but I know which one I would pick if it were my ~$25k.