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Finally, they’re learning.

Unpopular opinion incoming:

Tap a Pinto? Explosion.

Perhaps not so much of late, but back in the day every car crash in movies or on TV involved an explosion. Drove off a cliff? Explosion. (Occasionally in mid-air. FTW? WTF!?!) Drove into a wall? Explosion. Drove into a tree? Explosion. Crashed into another car? Explosion. Hit by lightning? Explosion. Slammed the door…

“This vehicle that we told you was safe has not changed but is no longer safe”

*this happens*

This is glorious.  More countries need to take note of this.  Make your government afraid of you as they should be.

Nothing to stop though

Good.

You’re right: The Aztek was only a prophetic forerunner of the myriad of gawping ugly lamprey-faced bottom-sucking cars penned (or CADed) by the explosion-in-a-protractor drawer design movement for the first two decades of the 21st Century. Though it is probably true that we are privileged to drive the most reliable…

It takes a few rounds to learn this. I bawked at how expensive BMW parts were and often replaced them with “OEM quality” parts from eBay and ended up replacing them a second time. Third time around I finally knew what parts I can cheap out on and what I can't. 

learned the hard way that newer nissans <insert any brand> are junk.

“140kph”

Damn near everything.

The importance of proper fastener torque and clean threads.

don’t put off what might cost more later:

learned the hard way to drain the water out of my racecar before winter storage

I...still want a geo storm. 

Well, that name is dumber than fuck.