My biggest problem with electric cars is all the BS burying heads in the sand at the mineral mining that will be required for all those friggin batteries. I also doubt you’ll be able to just haul one off to the junk yard, cause you can’t risk those things leaking batteries are toxic. People think electric cars are…

You’re dreaming autos will outlast the clutch in a manual.

Hope you enjoy your 4+ hours a day dealing with the bus.

I’ll give you four good reasons that no one where I live wants manuals especially on highways. I20 through Atlanta, I75 through Atlanta, I85 through Atlanta, & I285 around Atlanta. Do that every day for 6 years in a manual and I can almost guarantee your next car purchase will be an auto. There are some fantastic…

If I lived up north I would probably hit an autowash with an undercarriage feature at least a couple of times a month during winter.

Pickup trucks have had what amounts to a suicide door for the back seat in “access cab” or whatever the equivalent is. My Tacoma had these. Granted these weren’t really full length doors and the front door had to be opened to open these. I had issue when I wanted to load something into the back of the cab in a…

I would appreciate Hawaiian shirt man more if he picked that particular tri 5. 56s are somewhat more special than the 55 or 57.

SR5 just means I didn’t buy the base model. No idea about xle.

Or you can go spend half that on a good CJ and go hog wild on the aftermarket stuff and have a much more capable off roader. CP

While I find your article an interesting read and your entire concept of automotive ownership intriguing, buying a 7 year old V10 BMW even with the warranty is idiotic. Its either going to leave you stranded at some point or be a constant worry and nuisance.

It’s possible the motor came with reverse polarity, but it only went in one way and there is only one power connection to the actuator and it can only be connected one way.

Spent most of a Saturday pulling apart the passenger door on my 06 Tacoma to fix the power door locks. I had watched a couple of Youtube videos and figured it couldn’t be that hard. Didn’t want to pay Toyota $$$ for a replacement right front door actuator and nobody else sells the front. Go look you can buy rears…

You’re right to a point and wrong on others. Turbo i4s don’t equal V6 replacements at least not entirely in Ford’s lineup. You have Turbo i4s putting down better power than previous generation V8s and turbo V6s putting down numbers we hadn’t seen in a long time and actually improved efficiency. Take the current…

The thing that makes Dodge is there cars aren’t really like anything else, but the Dart/200 were trying too hard to be the Toyota Corolla and no one wants that from Dodge.

Fairly certain Ford and GM use in house platforms for most of their vehicles. They might not be US origin, but they are their own. FCA still has a few Mercedes bones lurking underneath as well as some stuff developed after the merger with Fiat. FCA wants someone else to build there Dodge/Chrysler econo boxes, cause…

They don’t want to build it. FCA doesn’t want to waste the money actually building one themselves. It would be cheaper to throw some FCA parts bin stuff at something someone else is already building and just badge engineer. Also getting a Euro market car ready and approved for the US would be a major headache as…

Hey now that little firecracker alongside some hybrid electrification and you might be eatin’ some crow. F-150 went aluminum and 2.7L 4 cylinder. Nothing saying the Mustang can’t drop some mega weight add some batteries and a small turbo 3 pot. I love my 2015 Ecoboost the handling is really good, but you can feel…

Who cares? Concours cars are basically those model car kits where you have to glue the wheels on. Fun to look at, but because of the nature of what they are you can’t enjoy them beyond that for fear of ruining it. I’m sure the massive insurance payout the monocled Monopoly guy who owns this will have whoever made it…

Yeah, but titling registering and insuring cars all of the time is probably not worth the headache.

I think any modification is an improvement on a Fox body.