You have put more thought into this comment than any of the engineers at GM put into the Cavalier. 

Thats not Vape smoke - its failed head gaskets!
(jokes folks. I know they fixed that issue)

Kind of a fact...street/strip or “race” parts are really meant for racing.  You’ve got to be realistic with yourself about how you’re using your car when making modifications. “I need a street/race transmission, cuz my car isn’t stock” leads to ridiculously harsh shifts that are miserable in daily traffic. That race…

Less “features”. I would like to see physical buttons again. Having to navigate a menu to increase the A/C fan speed, or turn on heated seats, is ridiculous. The “luxury” of a screen is usually that it provides access to deeper options and control, while at the same time making really simple things unnecessarily hard.…

You should have yelled back “Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, dude”.

“Are you telling me, you built a time machine... out of a Bricklin?”  - Marty McFly in an alternate, better timeline.  The Delorean gave those two nothing but problems

+1. Munro seems to be lauding VW for certain decisions that appear to reduce cost compared to the Tesla equivalent part. But it looks to me like Tesla’s assemblies are engineered for higher torque levels, and greater loads along multiple axes. That’s what you’d expect when comparing a slow, light ID.4 to a heavy, fast…

I’m amazed at how good things appear to be in what is the first pass at this, for most manufacturers.

It's like 50s GM and 70s GM at the same time.

Man, I rail against this “threaded fasteners=bad” mentality. The plastic clip that doesn’t snap after 8 years of driving is rare in my experience. “People aren’t going to service this” feels like a very, very OEM perspective. Totally believe his reasoning on not liking threaded fasteners, but they sure feel worth it…

I, also just a guy on the internet, agree with you completely.

I’ve watched a few of these and love the technical discussion, though I always feel like his hatred of the “parts bin” is a bit too idealistic maybe, in that he acts like it’s just laziness and money that drives parts bin engineering when there are as many reasons for it as there are against.

You’re right about the in-service date, but I didn’t think it would still apply three years later.

Victoria,

That’s awesome of you, but my big concern is that her shop is REALLY putting the screws to her.

I really think she needs a second opinion.  If I were in Dallas, I would offer one, however, I’m 5 hours from Dallas.  That’s why I offered to take the estimate from the shop, and re-estimate it using my parts…

3500 before labor.

As a very seasoned mechanic, and shop owner, I’m calling bullshit. Well, mostly, because I don’t know what the other smaller items consist of, and how many of them there are.

I can tell you this - if I had a customer pull into my shop with a ‘96 Suburban and I gave them a 3500 estimate BEFORE LABOR…

Welcome to the age where if you can’t design an ugly vehicle, manufacturers aren’t going to hire you. Chevy first, BMW next and now Toyota joins the fray.

PHENOMENAL GRILLE POWER!

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Just turn all pickups into actual tanks and get it over with already

Grillpocalyps continues

Toyota says Oh, hell no! to Chevy having the ugliest truck in the world honors and declares war!