Weird. My wife’s old Juke had a system that beeped when you stepped out of the car with the key when it was running. And her new Focus actually honks the horn at you. It would be pretty difficult (in my eyes) to forget that, since it’s a sound the car doesn’t normally make and forces a cognitive dissonance that jerks…

Trucks with 12"+ lifts, deep dish rims, and low-profile tires.

Even worse, they still make it. They just changed the name to “Trax” and eliminated the better motor.

Keep in mind that the vast majority of crossovers that are being sold are Nissan Rogue/Honda CR-V/Toyota RAV4 sized, or smaller in the case of all the micro-crossovers that have been popping up. Those get around 30mpg. It’s not like the last gas boom where most of the SUV’s were getting 20 or under.

If you just tax gas into oblivion, the consumer feels that way harder than the corporations do. That means the guy who can only afford an older car with worse gas mileage suffers way more than someone who can afford to still run their new Suburban even with increased gas taxes. If you want fleet average to go up,…

There is probably a provision in the options to have a pop-out pigeon catapult in the roof for Jeeves to use.

Gas mileage also went up a bit with the new Wrangler as well....so there’s that.

Thank you. One of my friends recently said he wanted to get a Crosstrek for his girlfriend. I told him he was an idiot and that she would be killed in traffic. He then said “Wait, isn’t it a turbo?” Uhhhh....no. It’s a great looking car, one that might be on my list if they offered 200+ hp and a stickshift with it.…

I think Ford isn’t making a HUGE mistake in this. The only thing I can see being an issue is not having an inexpensive crossover to fill a gap left by the Fiesta/focus. Small and cheap cars like that can help build brand loyalty until someone can work up their finances to a Mustang or an Escape. Maybe Ford will trim…

Hissy Fit would have been my vote for COTD.

I made a pretty funny joke about fancy kristen earlier. Are you not entertained?

or three Fancy Kristens.

My wife and I nearly leased a Stinger a couple months ago (ended up going for a FoST because Manual, otherwise the stinger would have won). It was a good experience, and the lease was incredibly reasonable even on the “first pass” of the pencil. Somewhere in the $350 range with a couple grand down even with tax on a…

Neutral: Hire some people for top engineering positions (particularly people who care about ease of repair and reliability) and hire Volvo’s interior guy. Sell off some of the brands that stray from the core products and use the capital from that to start rolling out wholly-revamped product lines centered around…

What about estates/wagons? Or coupes? Semi trucks? Pickup trucks? Chelsea Tractors? Ute?

I-76 on any given afternoon going east is a great spot. Between Lochbuie and Hudson I managed to test the top speed of a few cars. Just watch out for troopers, they hang out there sometimes (rarely though).

Native (and current) Coloradoan here. 150 would be really really dang fast on that section of road. I think the speed limit is 55 for most of that stretch due to the corners and how narrow it gets. If the driver of the mustang was able to hit that there, and outrun the cops? My guess is that he’s either insanely…

If they put a transmission besides the CVT in there I would consider it. If not, then they can pound sand.

Thank you. Jeep SRT is fun. Source: used to work for jeep and drive them all around. They’re not necessarily what I would pick for a track day but bombing around town? Yes.

Liberty nameplate was terminated with the new Cherokee. They eliminated the Cherokee name for a while in favor of the Liberty because they thought it caused confusion for the Grand Cherokee. They stopped doing that with the KL generation of the Cherokee.