Honda’s have the best CVT? Drive a 4-cylinder Accord. Absolute crap. It STUTTERS when you put your foot in it. What the hell!

Drive a Maxima with CVT. It’s glorious. That thing moves.

You don’t just “add a lower gear”. It shifts the whole set of ratios.

Have you not understood all along that more gears=more efficiency? That’s the main purpose. I’ll give you an example, sense you’re more of a visual learner.

2015 Corvette Stingray / Z06

Nobody said it was necessary. Nobody said it was more fun. I simply said it gave a very nice cruising gear. For long drives, 7th gear is amazing. It’s more comfortable and fuel efficient than 6th - but also just a step away from the same power. Much like shutting down cylinders at highway cruising speed. Do I need it?…

So continue thinking along those lines.... If we have more lower gears, they can be stretched farther, thus allowing final gear to be a bit taller with lower rpms at cruising...

IMHO Mazda always had the sexiest low-budget car models. I just always feared their reliability. Born and raised Toyota - it’s tough for me to switch. I had a new Honda Accord for about 5 days before I traded it back in.

Take it to a Toyota dealer. They’ll do the maintenance for cheaper to boot!

The subaru downfall will be the damn rattles. Sorry. If my car rattles all damn day, I’ll kill somebody.

I liked 7. Gave you a very nice cruising gear.

Tom. We need a Top Hits album.

“A Ford service technician posted two videos earlier this year(2014) addressing the issue. Essentially he discovered that aging EcoBoost engines are experiencing misfires caused by carbon buildup on the intake valves. When he called Ford for a fix, he was told that Ford is recommending changing the cylinder heads…

That’s the argument he’s making. You can’t do much of the work yourself. Hell, every 40k they have to pull off the intake manifold and clean the valves. Good luck not ruining your turbo that way.

Does everything HAVE to be a twist? Can’t it just BE the story? Geez. It’s an amazing show. Period. Some of the best acting around, to boot.

Last time I fished, my friend hooked the hat right off my head. I called it quits. Fishing is frustration incarnate. I don’t get the relaxing aspect at all.

YOU STOPPED WANTING BACON?!?!?!!!

I give it 30 days.

Very true!

Hook in the hand/arm isn’t bad. The face is bad.

Is Spybot: Search & Destroy still valid? I went the all Mac route years past, and this is the first time in a long time that I’ve had to set up a Windows PC. I ran Avast and Spybot back in the day.

I could always hear if an electronic was on. Even outside a house. That hum. Strange.