Power delivery is a big deal, and likely exaggerated by the high altitude of the road test. It doesn’t help that Toyota’s long-lived V6 is a darling by all accounts, which makes the efficiency-focused four-pot feel weak.

You’re right, but people here hate Haldex for some reason. I’m assuming they only drove early versions of it, because the newer generations of it are pretty incredible.

They need to do what BorgWarner did with Haldex around generation 4 and make it proactive. For example, in the Golf R/Audi A3/Audi S3, the rear wet clutch pump is always primed via an electric fluid pump and can be engaged instantly, and is engaged immediately at some percentage as soon as you touch the throttle. It…

Ghosn was not innocent but plenty in Nissan also were not, and it seems pretty clear everyone was in on it. The difference is the others got off with a simple apology, while Ghosn was set as the fall guy. Seemed like it was just a method to get him out.

It also describes the Saturn experiment. GM spent a whole lot of money building and marketing line of compact cars that was just mediocre, because the targets they’d benchmarked had already advanced one or two generations by then.

Either GM lags; or they try to lead, put out something half-baked, then kill it due to poor reviews just as it’s becoming a decent automobile. The Corvair, Fiero, and EV-1 are all examples (although GM made good use of lessons learned from the EV-1 later.)

You clearly don’t understand how corporate finance and controller functions work.

The Blackwing V8 is dead because GM cancelled their plans for Omega platform vehicles. Including the CT6, and fullsize RWD CUVs for Cadillac and GMC. Instead we got the XT6, and GMC has a gaping hole where the fullsize Acadia used to be (now a midsize CUV).

While this may be true, what’s also galling is that the Japanese authorities have made seemingly no attempts at investigating the rest of the Nissan execs. You think Ghosn was the only one skimming money off the top? Much like the UAW, Nissan had to go deep into its bench to pull out an executive who is mildly clean…

I believe it’s also the fact that Nissan skirted around salary cap laws in order to give Ghosn even more money -- in which case, Nissan deserves contempt. 

I agree that the wealthy and the powerful get treated way better and can get away with a lot more than the average person who can’t afford good legal representation.

For sure, that’s a deal but you also have to factor the maintenance cost of these high end sedans if you keep them for a long time. This is the reason why people lease. This is the price of “No Hassle”. Very often, these are company cars or pay buy car allowances.

I don’t think any of the charges against Ghosn are for embezzlement. He’s being charged pretty much with tax evasion in Japan. Yeah, there’s shady shit going on; but it’s pretty clear from what’s been coming out that Ghosn wasn’t a lone actor in this thing. Nissan was giving him the money willingly. They just did it…

For consumers, well, it’s always been smarter to buy used rather than new.

Headline should read “VW, in surprising good move, decides competing with the Honda Ridgeline for truck market share is a shit idea. Goes back to promising electric everything soon.”

WD-40 is not a lubricant. Common misconception. 

Its actually a very bad thing to use for all of those. It doesnt inhibite rust, it actually promotes it. It doesnt lubricate. It is flamable and it does smell.

WD-40 is not a lubricant, and people who use it as such are only setting themselves up for long term failure. It provides lubricant-like results for a very brief period of time, but in the end, will only dissolve any remaining prior lubricant from the application area and then evaporate itself, leaving you with…

You know those potato cannons made with PVC pipe and a grill igniter? How you’re supposed to use hair spray to launch the ‘tater?

A pal from the old GDR told me how you got a Trabbi: