I want this van so hard with a 2021 turbo-4 or 3.5 V6.

This screed, forged from an ingot of pure snark, gets a +100 from me not only because it so perfectly and sarcastically encapsulates Gen X/Y parenthood in the year 2020, but because it nails the most god-fucking-awful trend in child-naming, in my lifetime. The fact that my own children will have to integrate into an…

F’ing THANK YOU. YES.

The EV1 was truly the first workable mass-produced electric car. You’re right about GM always figuring out how to screw up their own good ideas. A short list of examples:

Right, but if I recall correctly, that’s partly a function of reduced stroke length, a feature that normal road cars don’t see any benefit from. I also recall many forum arguments 10-15 years ago touting NASCAR as an equally impressive series to F1 in terms of engineering because while NASCAR engines didn’t rev into…

I know you qualified your quote-fingers “refinement”, but still worth pointing out:

I love the Ford Flex, as fully loaded examples with AWD and the 3.5 EcoBoost are pretty magical when it comes to their features coupled with pretty Swiss Army knife FLEX-ibility and a not-too-SUV appearance.

This was my thinking, too, because at the time Ford announced “CUV/truck all non-horsey things!”, the Fusion was selling at something like 140+k units a year. How bad is the economy of scale on that car that removing it from the lineup makes sense? Chevy was also selling the Malibu at over 100k units when they killed…

Welp, hate to say it but good luck to any of us getting any of those tireless defenders to admit 45's extra-legal track record, let alone accept that it is in fact extra-legal, but also - if anyone scratches beneath the surface - an obvious giveaway that he has never been smart, never been successful, never been…

And they either refuse to accept that they are for the very “identity politics!” reason they chide Democrats for (projection),or genuinely don’t see themselves as such because the philosophical basis underpinning conservatism presently (and arguably back to ‘94) is subjective interpretations/judgments are what matters…

I get that the steering wheel is something out of a 1980s ultra-high-tech moonshot car concept lauding the “TRANSPORTATION OF TOMORROW!!!”...but the rest is quite good IMO.

There is a short-term emo market for white men above the age of 40 (pretty much guaranteed to be 45 mouseketeers) bitching about Greta Thunberg’s activism. They are clearly threatened by her, as much as their “laughing” thru text regardless of how angry they otherwise sound can be taken as aflippant…

If anything, both should have streamlined down to 1 car (that’s not a Mustang), and bridged segments with it in the way Honda has been doing for decades with the Civic and Accord. Yes they also have the Fit, but that’s a much smaller buyer segment than the Civic.

Only the 1989 Turbo Trans Am used that engine. All other TAs before and after had V8s, turbo or otherwise.

Is there still 15% lost when a car is rear-mid-engine? My understanding is that RWD cars that are front/front-mid-engine lose more power due to the drive shaft and other parts that create more distance between the flywheel and the wheels contacting the ground. FWD cars tend to lose less HP for this very reason.

What I just oh so LOVE, having been in active participant in our political system for the last 20 years, is how conservatives are adopting one of the exact same moral political positions on the issue of constantly having troops overseas in a conflict/potential conflict zone that liberals took in the run up to and…

Well, ya, it would be the perfect sought-after Jeep if you didn’t have to replace...that which makes it a car. I’m not sure I’d trust that thing not to collapse even if it was transported on a trailer.

Oh for sure used car prices are up by thousands. There are plenty of 15 year-old cars that are pricey, especially if they have less than 100k miles. Look up 2004-2005 Acura TSXs. I’ve seen 04-07 Acura TLs in the $10-12k range, and even $13-14k for Type-S manuals. Even for non-manual cars they are often in the $7-9k…

The roll of electrical tape and visible pliers and vice grips sum this one up.

Pretty impressive how he’s making a low-RPM V12 sound like it’s rotating at 2-3X. I’m guessing there’s an exhaust pulse timing thing that is being done.