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2003 Kia Rio (suspected O2 sensor, starter relay)

“The company also is cutting discretionary spending and getting rid of some cars in its fleet.”

I have ten urinals, about 16 sinks, 20 showers and eight toilets that all dump into a six-inch line. I wouldn’t want to go smaller.

Honda already fixed the Civic...

Bingo! This is what I’ve been saying. The computers are good enough to keep the truck on the road, to follow directions, to miss most of the obvious obstacles.

Hovel For Sale

Now, it’s not unusual that hovels get put up for sale—that happens damn-near every day—but this particular one

“For your contribution, here is a check for $10,000....but for some reason our accounting department issued checks for $15,000. Just deposit the check, mail us $4,000 cash and keep and extra $1,000 for your troubles.”

It’s not a grille, it’s a face mask. 

I get that the styling isn't exactly "beautiful" but as someone directly in the target market for a vehicle like this I actually find it pretty cool and distinctive. Hyundai/Kia are really going for it and are at the top of my list when I'm ready for my next car.

It really is a Ferrari experience at a quarter the price.

I still don’t understand the X6 and the other ‘coupe SUVs.’ You pay more money for a car that looks worse and is less useful. Like I get trading practicality for beauty, but the fastback rooflines kill the visual balance so they all look significantly worse, making me wonder who is buying them and why they can afford

I think I just realized what I don’t like about the Gladiator, aside from its length (bear with me for a sec, I know this isn’t a Gladiator article). The truck has lots of slanted lines to it - the trailing edge of the doors, the fenders - but the gap between the bed and cabin is different. It’s a vertical line

At least I now know why the Torch didn’t put up any frontal photos of the car. This is the most boring design of the year. It’s a mix of all the most anonymous + spiritless styling elements of the last twenty years. Good grief.

Rather bland compared with the DS9 concept promised a few years ago

Why don’t they style the sensors to look like cool rally car foglamps instead of dumb black boxes that they forgot they had to include until five minutes after the design was frozen?