You also get into the situation that a car payment is usually the first bill people will pay. As mentioned in the article, the late payment rate on auto loans is still smaller than revolving credit lines and student loans, likely because defaulting on either doesn’t result in a repo man showing up to take your…

fake news.

Statistics are fun... if everyone wore their seat belt, it would reduce fatalities by about a third, not half.

Put a PDK in the Carrera S and it’s an 88 lbs difference, in a car that has considerbly more aero bits, a roll cage, rear wheel steering, wider wheels and tires, etc.

This M2 is a half-assed “Porsche” attempt. In a Porsche, you can spec a 911 or Cayman with single-zone AC, manual seats and a basic stereo and it will…

On my last 2 cars, the gauge cluster goes dark if the car thinks it’s dark enough that the headlights need to be on and they aren’t. I know not all cars work this way, though... I see lots of Toyotas and Hondas with the gauges lit up WAY TOO BRIGHT at night and drivers oblivious to their exterior lighting situation.

You think they a did a good job of avoiding crossing the yellow? I say that’s complete and utter bullshit - I skipped around the video to watch, they were crossing on straight sections, even. These guys should be strung up by their testicles and left to ponder their actions.

If I were VW, I’d probably just stop selling cars in the US. (and this is from a perfectly satisfied owner of a Mk7 GTI. VW Group sold well over 10 million cars last year, a paltry 0.6% of those were in the US.

There is always a throttle cam involved. In the old days, you’d have to change the cam on the grip or the carb/throttle body. Now you can choose from a couple different ones with a button. What’s the harm?

Do you have any idea how absolutely terrible for the environment the process of making hydrogen is?

Trump has already done a lot of the crazy shit many of his supporters didn’t think he was actually going to do.

High school, 2001. My best friend Bryan’s grandfather has just died. I offer to pick him up and take him to his favorite pizza place. Our wheels for the evening would by my 1978 Chevy Monte Carlo - It’s tan, with a dark tan vinyl interior, tan painted steel wheels and a brown quarter vinyl top. It’s dated and…

What is it with the 1-way range “corrections”? I never even heard this before and everyone is all uppity about it in the comments. And for a car that can get 238 miles on a charge, why are you only comfortable using 75% of that?

I wonder how many people think these are exaggerations of the accent. My grandparents, borned and raised in Braddock, sound exactly like that WDVE commercial.

You have to give credit where it’s due... the solution in the Lumina required no electric motor or track, which cost money and would eventually fail, and they incorporated the lap belt, where the motorized solutions only included the shoulder belt.

In practice, these weren’t that odd to use.

Oh, and I counted exactly 1…

Hydrogen production creates 10 times as much CO2 as it does Hydrogen - and this doesn’t count whatever it took to get the fossil fuels that need to be burned from the ground to the plant. I hope this technology never catches on for automotive use. It brings no benefit in usability, efficiency or for the environment…

“and they want them to consider the kinds of cars people actually want to buy”

Pretty sure voting for Johnson was for people who wanted Trump but didn’t want their friends to make fun of them.

I want some of what you’re on. It’s unreal how much time went by before American manufacturers were including technologies that were old hat in Europe for decades - overhead cams, 4 valve heads, fuel injection... hell, even IRS didn’t appear at any kind of scale until the early 60s, and it was an archaic swing axle…

Trump needs to speak loudly and carry a small stick because it’s all his tiny hands can handle.

I love all of the close up detail shots (I really do), but more of the entire car would be welcome. Seems we either got a close up shot of a neat detail with little context, or a whole car with no close ups (some exceptions, but not many).