Maybe it has a trunk, or a frunk, or both!

That actually sounds very forthright and honest to me!

Except,

Right, but according to this article it’s never coming to this gen of RAV4. 

Toyota and BMW are basically the only Android Auto holdouts at this point. It’s stupid and no way in hell would I buy a brand new car in 2019 without Android Auto. 

I have a Macbook Pro and I got my wife a Chromebook. The only stuff it can’t do that I use my MBP for is Photoshop and running a Plex media server. Neither of which she needs.

When I was a college kid at the University of Wisconsin, there was an insanely good late-night food cart called Jin’s Chicken & Fish. They sold fried chicken and fish sandwiches that were nothing more than a plain white burger bun, way too many perfectly fried chicken tenders or catfish fillets, shredded iceberg…

The problem with Acela is that even though the trains have high top speeds, they don’t have dedicated tracks, and the old tracks have turns that the Acela trains can’t take at high speeds. Acela only ends up saving about half an hour between DC and NY but costs 3x as much.

I totally agree about the current TLX but the new one hypothetically has some potential.

The Explorer turbo V6 is way more powerful than those other options, and the ST at least tries to be good to drive. Doesn't necessarily mean those high prices are worth it but there's *something* extra. 

I’ve driven a couple TLXs. They’re ok but not my jam. The chassis tuning is a bit soft, the 9-speed on the V6 is occasionally herky jerky, and the dual dashboard screens are unintuitive.

Kia’s top level trims are genuinely interesting alternatives to more expensive cars, but the dealers are still used to pushing the more commodity stuff with incentives and/or bad credit approvals.

Ford is really stretching the upper end of the Explorer range. It’s almost like they’re trying to price it like the F-series now where you can just keep going and going and going with options.

That’s easy. For a long time, Honda used to be leaps and bounds better than everyone else at making excellent-handling fwd cars. Back 10-15 years ago the manual transmission TL came with an LSD and Brembo brakes when neither of those were very common at all. It was still fwd but an excellent car, especially the 07-08…

Actually I should say the new RDX is pretty dang good although the touchpad interface for the infotainment is questionable.

I was a huge Honda/Acura fanboy in the 90s and 00s but I’ve been meh about them for about 10 years now. Especially Acura. Honda has been on fire with the new Civic (in spite of its styling), Accord and CR-V but none of that goodness has made it over to Acura, yet.

These are halfway decent.

I’m vegan but I love the smell of Popeye’s. If I drive past one with the windows open, it’s lovely. 

Manufacturers often quote very conservative 0-60 times in their listed specs relative to what magazine test drivers are able to achieve.

Taxes are too inconsistent across the US for the car companies to provide that in the price. We don’t have VAT, but each state has its own sales tax rate, and many counties and cities charge additional smaller taxes on top of the state tax. With 50 different state tax rates and who knows how many local taxes on top of…