It’s fascinating Voyager 1 & 2 are still operating and how far they have travelled.  I remember learning about them in elementary/middle school in the 80s.

Tesla made a big mistake with the CyberTruck. Either designing and producing a more conventional EV pickup truck like Rivian would have been a better choice or ditching the stainless steel and just skinning the CT in either aluminum or steel would have been wiser choices. The initial novelty of stainless steel and in…

All the ridiculously expensive CUVs look absurd.  The Bentley Bentayga, Rolls Cullinan, Lambo Urus, Ferrari Purso-whatever.  The only one that looks somewhat good is the Aston Martin, but could even say that looks a bit like a Ford Escape.   Especially the Bentley and Rolls Royce are just oddly proportioned and…

I doubt every Mustang Ecoboost buyer dreamed of a V8 but couldn’t afford the V8 and/or insurance.  There’s enough people that simply don’t care about the 0-60 time or V8 rumble.  Not to mention value the higher gas mileage more.  

Easy to fix the 1st gear problem: Buy a midsize sedan such as a Camry or Accord. Which is what the average family had 15-20 years ago and these cars can comfortably fit a family of 4. A Corolla or Civic is the size of a Camry or Accord from 15 years ago. And prices for these, inflation adjusted, are actually cheaper.…

Ideally, 50% of the cars should be on the left and 50% should be on the right.  I generally get gas at Sams Club and generally the cars with have fillers on the left are generally lined up 5-6 cars.  Meanwhile usually there are 0-1 cars that have right side fillers getting gas.  Since I have 2 German cars with gas…

Hey...that’s what happens when the party you speak of advocates for a lack of education.  

Sold off years ago to a Chinese company. I believe Haier makes all GE appliances.  

I’m sure NASA has some input into Boeing’s current decision making process and the NASA/gov’t will probably have some say into the possible & prospective sale to Blue Origin.  Being that NASA want’s competition, a any effort by SpaceX is probably going to be met with resistance. 

Acura RDX. not totally mundane, but still just basically a peppy 4 cylinder CUV.  Would be great with instead of a Type A version, a real Type S version with a 300+ horsepower drivetrain from the Civic Type R or a slightly punched out 2.2L inline 4. 

Don’t know about reliability but the Nissan CVTs are terrible.  Driven a Altima rental a couple of times, not a good CVT.   

The lack of a manual transmission in the Frontier is the least of their problems. Take rate is not high enough to make much of a difference. Although, a manual in a Frontier could also be used in a XTerra which would probably have a high take rate like in the Ford Bronco. Originally dropping the Xterra is a real…

I don’t know about that.  They were generally making good competitive cars through the 1990's, and that’s about 20 years after the Datsun to Nissan name.   the 240SX, Maxima, 300ZX, Pathfinder, Altima were all excellent products.  I don’t know what or who’s moronic idea it was to merge with Renault in 1999, but it’s…

What’s new?  Someone claiming to be a utility company, or tech support trying to get into computer system has become a normal weekly occurrence. 

When have the Big 2 or Big 3 invested really anything in small cars? They build a good generation of a small sedan and then follow up with a complete crap generation.  And when the ruin the nameplate slap a new name on it.  Meanwhile you got the Corolla & Civic which have been around for 40 years or so. 

The U.S. is full of short term thinking.  Wall street is the biggest example.  Wall Street embraces quarter to quarter performance and therefore a whole lot of public traded companies seem to stumble from quarter to quarter. 

Hey. Now. The Fox News Bimbos are sublime. 

Buying a new Audi. Or used for that matter.  Won’t make that mistake again.  

Yup, the people that are always whining about how they don’t make, save, anything always have all their overly expensive cars on lease, or with big monthly mortgage size payments, with a 4K square foot house.   It would be easy by having a smaller house(that would still be big) and smaller(but still near luxury or…

That reminds me of a customer who runs a “credit counseling” service in the Baltimore area.  He actually comes all the time with like F150 Raptor, Mercedes E class coupe, BMW X6, etc.  About a month ago, he calls me says he’s tight on money and if I could give him a deal for mid $100 hotel room night.