I love it. I love the styling. I love the utility. I love the price. This is right where Hyundai needs to be in order to shake up the market.

Nope. The car was stock. The 323GTX apparently had better seats than the stock 323, but uhm... they still were just barely bolstered.

It always takes my brain a second to adjust when I see a GX 470 doing actual off-road duty. Intellectually, I know they’re built for it, but I have been conditioned to seeing them doing mall parking lot duties for so long, it’s weird seeing one out in the wild.

First of all, I had no idea these even existed in the R-Design trim with a hotter engine and a 6-speed stick with all wheel drive. I mean, damn... what a cool car.

I think the other reason people are faster in simulators is simple: Driving fast is tiring, especially if you’re in a car without a proper racing seat. I remember my first autocross day in my Mazda 323GTX — it was a hoot, for sure. It wasn’t “fast” in the way that you’d consider a modern car to be fast, but the…

Good point. Yeah, if your car can’t automatically adjust on the fly, then you’ll want to use premium.

Octane is simply a rating measuring resistance to detonation. A higher compression, higher revving engine is usually going to be designed for a 91 (or 93, if you can get it) octane premium fuel. If you add 87 to the tank, as the revs climb, you’ll notice that the engine is cutting timing, because a modern ECU will…

Despite Russia being geographically large, it’s almost a non-player in terms of the actual world economy. Yes, they have a thriving natural gas business, but it’s hopelessly corrupt, and Russia really only exists on “brand name” value, and nothing more.

I have no idea how many people are actually going to option one of these up to $80,000 — nor would I want to meet the person who does. You have to just love burning cash to see depreciation like that on a well-optioned F-Pace.

It always hurts my heart a little bit when I look in the back window of a car these days, and I don’t see a toddler with a Marlboro hanging from its cute little mouth.

Time to step into parent corner and talk about LATCH. Back in the day, child seats would simply loop the lower lap restraint through a little slide area, and that’s how you kept a baby safe.

This is a Wheeze car.

It’s actually kind of fun watching all these automakers realize that this is the end of the road for gasoline-powered monsters, and it’s like every engineer on staff knows it. Dodge has put the Hellcat engine in... everything. Even a Durango. Because sure, why not?

I’m not even on the fence anymore about buying a new Ford F-150 Lightning. I’m going to buy one, period. Why? Because I trust Ford’s institutional knowledge on building trucks. I trust that I’ll have a dealer service network that can fix it quickly. I trust that they torture tested it. I trust the build quality. I…

If you’d like to wander down a deep dark hole, I suggest the comments of the Gateway Pundit article by Jim Hoft. (Hoft has been banned from Twitter for “civic integrity violations” — meaning, he keeps promoting The Big Lie.)

Look man, I wanna be the guy who hates on the new shit, but that’s just not my reality. I was an early MySpace employee, and had a big following there. Then I jumped on Tumblr early... and that was a thing. I blogged for a bit. Then I got a Twitter, and that became a thing.

I made a TikTok about this recently, but I’ll roughly repeat it here: Artificial intelligence is going to threaten many job categories, and I’m talking about entire verticals of employment... and this is a 3-5 year problem. (I have mentioned before, I work in this field, so I know the landscape extremely well.)

For those of you who wanted to know what it might feel like to drive a suppository, I present the Canoo EV Minibus.

I like to keep a Hefty bag full of 93 octane under the passenger seat.

I’m one of those “prepared for anything” kind of people, so I don’t like my tank being under a quarter. That gives me about 125 miles of range. God forbid I need to deal with an emergency in my life, but if I’m in that situation... I don’t want to be thinking about getting gas. (I’m also one of those people who keeps…