I had an ‘11 GS460 before the ‘15 GS350, fantastic powertrain and they both have 8-speed autos in RWD spec (the 8-speed was added for the V6 in 2014).

That’s probably Japanese market specific. Rich guys over there don’t care much for settling into a hot leather seat in August. 

Exactly what I came here to say. So the answer is nowhere. Nowhere has free cheeseburgers (with no strings attached). That’s what I expected, and I thank the author for confirming it. 

(cites no place with actual free cheeseburgers)

I just can’t get past the front fascia of the Avalon. It just looks like the designer stoped drawing the car and said, “Ah, it’s good enough, we don’t need a design in the front. Let’s just make it a big fake grill and call it a day.”

It’s just a color name, and it’s a good color. The issues you bring up have merit generally, but you’re stretching in this case.

This fella might be able to make your ol’ Merc sound like a F1 car through careful engineering and craftsmanship, and kudos to him for doing so, but there’s a chap on night shift where I work who, though feckless neglect and deliberate butchery, made his old Merc sound like a dying tractor.

I mean, doesn’t everyone want to double market share? I just roll my eyes at anything like that, because implicit is the assumption that no one is fighting back to keep the market share they want to steal.

“Mach E” is a stupid name, but I do like Ford’s strategy of leveraging existing nameplates for other EVs

And this people is why we cant have nice things. When it started Uber was a side gig for people that already have jobs to make a few bucks on the side. Then a bunch of people decided to do it full time and bitch about how the system doesn’t work as they assume it should. Uber/Lyft didnt do anything to discourage this…

It works pretty much like it does in a gas car, except you can start off from a stop without using the clutch. Just step on it and go, and leave the clutch alone except for changing gear.

Good: a car manufacturer saying that their offerings should pass a purity test representative of the brand.

It’s one or the other.

At any given time there are at least 100 Toyota Camri with taillight damage in OC California. Youll run the world out of gasoline before you find the person who hit you car....and even IF you find them, you have to prove it was them...

Cmon let’s be real this damage occurred when they were using a sedan to push the surely broken disco into that spot.

A nice restomod Mini sounds great, but yeah, CP if 100k of “remastering” means:

The take-home comp of your friendly neighborhood CPA who is a partner at their firm would absolutely floor most of you. It’s generally not great form to show up at meetings with clients in vehicles which remind your client that the fees you charge result in six-to-seven figures of annual comp, particularly when they…

I have long dealt with having to limit the size of my collections of various objects, so Ron’s story hits home with me. In so many ways I feel bad for him. It has to hurt to see these vehicles go away..

Somehow, you never put the keys to your MPV on a carabinier, yet when you purchased a Subaru, a little voice inside your head told you to do it.

No, it’s under the dash on the passenger side.