Experience and judgement have their value, but there’s no intuition for tolerances in the tenths of mils or internal materials strength. He’s obviously accepting a small/moderate chance of failure & rebuild, not performing some magical mental calculation.

All of the first three were good suggestion (ignoring Jeep Boy). Terribly boring cars but fit for purpose. I was ready to give up on all the hipster special recommendations by NYCers who never have to rely on their cars to run or use them more than weekly.

Well, having seen several companies go to the outsourced+consultant model, you have the managers gradually attrition their teams while hiring replacement labor, until one day all that’s left is those “managing” (re-writing) the budget work.

That should pretty much always be the case

I can’t keep track, do we love or hate that one?  I guess a slammed X3M is really the dream sports-wagon-hatch thing...

To those ready to complain about how these are nonfunctional etc while also clamoring for sports wagons and hatches: slam one of these to sports car height and what do you have?

I somehow read the article title as being about the “new SVX”.  But a 2.4 turbo in the BRZ might actually make me consider it.  350/350 with bolt-ons in something that size?

Isn’t it great that the BigTech Monopolies that enjoy legal exemptions & content immunity as “open platforms” are replacing all that free exchange of ideas stuff they were built on with politically-driven censorship?

You’re telling me the african warlords who have their junk AKs plated in gold with foreign aid money have bad taste?!

I’ve seen my share of duallies, just think the proportions in this picture look odd.  Might be the straight on angle that shows the length but not depth of the fender bulge, plus the gap with stock tires and nothing in the bed...

Toyota can sell the same model for eleventeen years due to a whole generation of Consumer Reports readers.  Chrysler is the scrappy upstart throwing more toys in, even if it means some electronic gremlins down the line vs. the Toyota whose issues got worked out last decade.

I was pretty shocked to see 76k, especially for the relatively mainstream 392 (yeah 475hp, but it’s no Hellcat/Demon/Trackhawk).  I’m not up on Durango pricing, but I would’ve guessed 50s (and not upper 50s).

Ok next question for the truck expert:  why does that rear wheel/tire/fender combo look so odd?  Just the combo of stock setup, empty bed height, and roided-out fender design?

I’m actually surprised that marketing inflation hasn’t kicked in, the same way we have 3 Series bigger than older 5s, or “small” 36oz movie sodas.

> REEEEing about a 2.5 liter “destroying the environment”

I’m talking about which I’d rather see automakers pumping out...nobody’s going to be a pure sports car maker, so the choice is high volume, low margin beige stuff, or low volume high margin fun/ridiculous stuff.

The ES and RX. Overwhelmingly “cute, stylish luxury”.  Their husbands are typically in the S/E Class or 5 Series, with the more sports-oriented ones in S4s and the occasional M, probably because coupes and Porsches would be considered too “loud” in their professions.

Generalizations come from observations that are generally true. The 0.1% of women hopping in their Miatas to hit apexes don’t negate the 99% who want something “safe” (big) for their kids, comfortable with lots of “features”, and a luxury badge.

Calm down Karen. The two ways to fund fun cars are selling tons of commoditized FWD beigemobiles, and selling fewer high-margin, roided-out, AMG SS ///M badged versions of whatever people want.

Kia makes these in Georgia, and Hyundai in Alabama