oh nothing, I just sign off like that. Fuck Trump

oh nothing, I just sign off like that

Hmmm, 20 lbs higher payload but 300 lbs lower towing. Toyota keeps making alternatives like the Ranger seem more and more attractive. 

1) why is it crying?

Why are we getting bigger and beefier. That is what the Tundra is for. Fuck Trump

I feel like the EPA would be well served trying to mitigate the reason why people are eliminating their emission controls. Yes some people are just assholes, but I would argue the larger population of people doing this are in response to poor reliability and obscene costs of the emission control strategies used in…

ONLY a 1 million dollar fine? I’m guessing these diesel shops made 100X that selling shit that enabled diesel owners to break emissions laws.

Being from Brooklyn I can attest to that statement being correct.

I loathe AI voice interfaces. They don’t do well with accents.

Here in the US, I believe the Fiesta got the PowerShift for model years 2011-2016 and the Focus got it for 2012-2016. The manual-equipped versions appear to do well, though I’ve heard of people finding good deals on used examples because the reputation of the PowerShift tended to also depress the value of the stick…

As a Mk VII Fiesta owner myself, yes Ford did dug their own grave by keep offering that dry clutch DSP6 transmission knowing it’s flawed from the get go. did you guys in the US didn’t get the conventional 4 speed automatic ? anyway I love my 1.6 NA Fiesta with good old 5 speed manual, still my fun reliable daily till…

True - but they didn’t. It would have helped if they actually had a solution to fix what ended up being a poor design - but that didn’t happen.

All Ford had to do was handle their bad transmissions properly and we would probably still have Fiestas and Focuseses.

The Fiesta’s return to the US might be gone better were it not for the infamous PowerShift transmission. A friend in need of cheap, practical transportation ended up with one - and I didn’t steer here away from it, because I wasn’t then aware of the weaknesses of the dual dry clutch system. She’s now a happy Subaru…

Many of them were prettier...aaaand we’re done.

Here’s my armchair psychiatrist theory. If you’re 65-75ish now, you were 10-ish in 1955-65-ish. Cars were exciting, prettier, and represented a different thing - class aspirations, a kind of mobility that your parents didn’t have, etc. Even the poorest car owner could go…

They don’t make them like they used to. They make them significantly better.

We owned a 89 dodge grand caravan and a 2020 Chrysler pacifica and the new one is better in every conceivable way.

Totally agree. I’m not a fan of new cars, but we’re obviously heading in the right direction as far as safety, reliability and performance is concerned.

Whenever some old dude complains about how they “don’t make them like they use to “ hand how great cars from the 50's and 60's were. I eye roll and try to explain how new cars are so much better and safer than old cars. and I am in my 50's. 

“I can’t imagine any carmaker trying to get away with something like this today”