I had to scroll way to far to find the correct answer. 

Unions are an integral to the German manufacturing economy - education is structured to feed skilled workers in industry, with companies helping support the educational process. Unions are a part of that process and benefit from it. It’s a little different than here in the US where education is an afterthought, if not…

I’ve heard of it occurring on solid axis heavy duty Ford and Dodge pickups as well.

I have 145k miles on the original clutches in my Powershift. I put it in sport mode when I go up steep hills, pass on the highway, or drive in hilly terrain at slow speeds. Putting it in sport mode and being generous with the throttle keeps it from lugging and slipping under load.

To be fair, the idiots who roll coal burn oil (diesel) too, so I guess he’s right even without the pun.

Are we not going to talk about VW’s booth with the Golf Alltrack in awesome dark teal/green with the brown interior? Because that was amazing and there should be more cars that color.

What it always should have been - a Celica!

It does matter when you’re trying to reinforce the GUNS=EVIL narrative.

It looks like it’s wearing a bike racing helmet.

Good to see someone here still knows how guns work.

As long as it gets me a wagon instead of another f*cking crossover, I’ll live with the crappy cladding and lifted suspension.

For better or for worse, my father sold that car about 10 years ago! The Miata I bought replaced it in the garage, though even that’s been gone for a while now. It was a really nice car and last I heard was still in the area, though the guy who bought it put a doofy loud Flowmaster exhaust on it. I spent a lot of my…

Odds are it’s the big ass plastic trim piece on the front of top near the latches you can see in this picture. These tops are big and heavy and manually operated. If one person opened and closed the top, the whole thing would twist in the process, eventually cracking somewhere along its length. That’s not fatal, but…

Odds are the taller top gears wouldn’t be useable with the torque curve of the 4 cylinder. The 9 speed used in some Jeeps have that problem - you never get into 9th gear, no matter how fast you’re going or how low the engine load is. Combine that with likely higher cost, and the 10 speed doesn’t make sense.

Not being able to see out of modern cars doesn’t help either. I get it, sensors and cameras are really cool and are getting cheaper, but if windows were designed to be seen out of rather than being minimized for safety and style reasons, then maybe people wouldn’t need so many damn sensors and cameras to not crash…

I’m pretty sure that was a Ford F-250.

To be fair, Ford *already* had another name for sort-of-sporty models in the Fusion and Edge lineup - ‘Sport’. There was also the Taurus SHO, though that has more nostalgia tied up to it than anything else.

Considering you could buy a brand new car from 60 years ago there, I’m not surprised.

How does it compare to the 80's and 90's Honda that made us fall in love with the brand? Hondas used to be brilliantly engineered, simple, and elegant.