600 mile range is awesome! That would make my 1100 mile (round trip) weekend trips work. With level 1 charging at my destination, I should have a charged battery in 4.5 days. It’s a good thing I don’t have to make 3, 10 minute gas stops anymore. /S

My use case is similar. I have a 470 mile drive one way at least once a month. There's a good section of the drive where there's no cell coverage (mostly farm land). I don't have access to a fast charger at the other end, but there is a Tesla supercharger about 30 miles away. I typically drive around about 100 miles…

I feel that there needs to be a better PHEV market. Going all BEV does not fit my use case. I’m sure there are others like me. I commute 40 miles a day and drive 1100 miles one 3 day weekend every month. I'd need a BEV and a gas car to replace my one car now.

Look at the moving part count between any transmission and a Toyota HSD transmission. I’ll take the HSD transmission any day.

OK, still a CP on possible repair costs on a somewhat complex, highish mileage, Midwest, 13 year old Volvo with a terrible driver’s seat. Not counting no photos of the engine or underbody. I stand by my CP rating.

I voted CP. Not that there’s nothing redeeming here. I don’t need a winter beater, I don’t need a CUV, and I really don’t need Volvo maintenance. I know it could work totally fine, but I'd rather gamble my $3K on something else. 

More pictures of the 1961 Lincoln!

I have done a clutch that same way. Jack up car, take off wheels, lower car until transmission rests on a furniture dolly, remove all bolts holding transmission in car, lift car off transmission. It sucked but I was broke, and labor on it was 7 book hours and worth more than the car. 

That’s awesome!

But what if the Asians live not in America, but in Asia? Are they Asian Asians?

Mmmmmmm, LS Kayak!

I searched the whole site for another article tagged yaklopnik and came up blank. Hopefully this is the first in a long string of yak related tuning articles. I’m really looking forward to the yak Cummins swap or the yak anti-roll bar upgrade in future posts.

I hear Camel cigarettes used to be safe and doctor recommended. I'm sure that every advertisement needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Just ask Joe Isuzu. 

The one I fixed had 4 crimp connections and 2 of them were not properly crimped and had vibrated loose. I pulled out the module, and properly crimped the cut wire and all was well again. While I was there I cleaned out a few years of dirt from the under body connectors and all worked well. 

I had a rented Malibu a few months ago. I had thrown my carry-on bag on the passenger seat and left the airport. About 10 minutes later the car dings 1 time and a brief dash light flashed, but I couldn’t tell what it was. A bit later the car dinged again and a message came up that said passenger seatbelt. I had to…

Ah, I’ve been there too! I drove a Caviler with another Sailor and 2 Marines for 6 hours. Sailors in the front because rank, Marines in the back, obviously to crush the bump stops. Not a pleasant day. 

I rent cars quite often and move equipment regularly in them. Nothing huge but I mostly prefer hatchbacks. I will usually self pick a Soul. You do need to be aware that there are 2 engine choices. The 1.6 is usually the one at the rental lot. It is down on power and needs you to use the accelerator digitally. Flooring…

In 2017, I put almost 800 pounds of equipment in a Compass and drove 400 miles. You thought yours was slow, try merging from I-20E to I-285N like that. 

I work for a government contractor and travel frequently. Years ago, I did something (Hertz credit card? Delta card? I don’t know) but the next time I travelled, I got bumped up a class on Hertz. Since then, it's always been the Malibu class instead of the Spark class. I’m not going to ever try to undo whatever it is.

I had a Spark from the parking space to the rental office. Upgraded to a Sentra. Not quite as hateful, but close. I'm going with Mirage for the win here.