I like how I was scrolling through the home page and even before I could see the byline, I knew it was a Tracy article.

Tell me about it. They should be allocating as many chips as possible to those trucks. Somewhat related, but the top brass at Ford have also mentioned a desire to move more to a made-to-order sales process, and from experience, that’s not going particularly well, either. I have an order in for an Expedition Max, and…

I think that might be a factory option in Florida.

First Gear: As an Outlander owner, this doesn’t really surprise me. This car does a lot of things just good enough, for $10-20K less than other crossovers in the market. You can fairly comfortably truck around a family of 4, handles great in snow (I live in MN), gets great mileage and is surprisingly quick for a CVT,…

Torch wins this round just for throwing Tracy under a parade of his own doing.

Absolutely, and when you’ve finished haggling, they’ll sweeten the price a little more if you finance through them with some sort of 20% interest, 96-month loan.

I miss Fancy Kristen. Fancy Kristen was the best.

I see a major plus and a major minus with this plan.

No car is worth bidding on without a DougScore.

For Neutral, I’ll shamelessly self-promote, but that’s because it appears our tastes overlap quite a bit.

Wondering the same thing. Maybe they’ll blame it on Kinja and it was supposed to go on Gizmodo or something.

Am I high in seeing that people think this show is legitimately good? I’ve been more compelled by some of the circumnstances that caused Garfield to send Nermil to Abu Dhabi.

First Gear: Shouldn’t some of the manufacturers mentioned concern themselves with making good cars people actually want to buy, before determining that we as consumers “want” a shitload of pay-to-play bloatware in our cars too?

I’ll say this much, as someone who doesn’t have CarPlay and likes to listen to specific things from time to time on Spotify, navigating to things other than a handful of playlists is a big pain in Car View. So while it’s UX is great when playing, navigating to anything other than a Daily Mix or something like that is…

This seems as good a place as any to tell this story from my learner’s permit youth. Here I am, 15/16 years old, behind the wheel of a questionably relable 1986 Plymouth Horizon with a stick. By this point I had more or less mastered the art of functionally driving a manual on the roads, but hadn’t quite mastered…

I........don’t hate it? Like it’s crazy fun in a very strange way.

But how are people supposed to know I’m a man if my truck doesn’t have a GRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII…

Don’t give them more synergy® ideas.

Isn’t Ford’s terrain management system also a holdover of the tech that they rolled out with Land Rover, back when they owned them? If so, it’s not like that system doesn’t have legit offroad chops.

Counterpoint: We should give him more.