It still just feels to me like giving people (without any training) an 830 horsepower vehicle with bad visibility that weighs as much as a Class 3 truck and can hit 60 mph in a little over 3 seconds is a recipe for disaster. I give it like two weeks before somebody ‘Watts for Freedoms’ over a family in a crosswalk.

This is a good take. I’ve never understood the criticism of Johnson “throwing away Abrams ideas” because in watching TFA again, it really wasn’t much than a vehicle to introduce new characters, make it so Harrison Ford didn’t have to do this twice more, and essentially reuse a lot of the plot of ANH so they could ease…

Exactly why Amazon (and Google, and Facebook) need to be trust busted. It’s too fucking big. Standard Oil was too big too, the difference is the government at the time was willing to break it up into a bunch of pieces. That’s how it is supposed to work. Get too big? Get broken up!

The Ridgeline’s problem is price. It’s a pretty good vehicle, but I could buy an F-150 with comparable options and way more capacity for around the same price. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense. I think this and the Ford are both supposed to be priced more aggressively than the Honda. 

This is exactly it. Dealers have all the opportunity in the world to modernise their business model for the 21st century and stay relevant, but most are so committed to the smoke and mirrors and dishonest way of doing business that they refuse to see the forest through the trees. If manufactures keep pushing online…

This is a great method. I’ve used my own version of it to teach several people to drive manuals and it always seems to work for me.

Interesting, I didn’t know this. I assumed it’d be similar to gas.

This is why shipping emissions need to be regulated more harshly. The fact that this thing uses a 2 stroke and runs on heavy fuel oil is just so atrociously bad for emissions. The average twenty year old car has stricter emissions regulations than a lot of these ships do it seems like.

Depending on price, this could be a really attractive option. My only worry is that Ford ends up pricing it just slightly below the Ranger, which would sort of negate the point a bit. If I could get a nicely equipped one for around $35k CDN, I’d be into it. 

A friend of mine’s family made a real run at competing in NASCAR a few years ago in the Xfinity/Truck series. Even though they had a really talented driver and (relatively) deep pockets, they couldn’t make a go of it. Without huge funding its basically impossible to be competitive in the series, which is why so many…

The more I read and hear about NFT’s, the more convinced I am that they are little more than a scam created to appeal to the dumbest, wealthiest, and most vain members of our society. I can’t wait for society to pump untold tonnes of extra pollution into the air so that some rich moron in Silicon Valley or Shanghai…

The GX is the obvious choice here. The V10 TDI is cool and all, but you will probably spend less money upgrading to the vastly superior Lexus than you will in maintenance alone on the VW. Plus, the Lexus will still be worth something in a few years. 

What a horrible design. Just brutal. It sometimes feels like way too many designers and engineers at Tesla have never really spent much time in an actual car. Any reasonable person would see this is so obviously worse than a lever or buttons/knobs. I really wish the touchscreen-ification of cars would stop. It does…

Since jumping on a plane won’t be very likely until the end of summer at best, I bought a Gen IV Camaro with an LT1 and T-Tops to bomb around in and maybe do a road trip or two. I’m quite happy with my purchase so far. Cheap horsepower is good.

Or just come by in a group for some respectful, salutary hooning

I’ve noticed this in a lot of movies too and it makes me want to pull my hair out every time. It is just so absurdly inaccurate and makes absolutely no sense. Want to communicate that a vehicle is a shitbox? Grab any $500 Dodge Neon off the internet. Problem solved! At least it will be accurate. 

I hate this idea so much, and you’re right, at a time when everyone is supposed to be reducing/reusing in the name of not killing the planet, packing every car that comes off the line full of features that may never get used is insanely wasteful. And being artificially restricted from using something you paid for and…

As a racing fan, I want to disagree with this take, but as a driver, I think I probably agree with it. I’ve never raced at Sebring, but I have raced at tracks with bad surfaces and they can make it a bit of miserable experience in the car. I’ve had my head rattled more than once by a shitty surface and it is not fun…

I think the everything is a subscription model is going to become an enormous headache over the next decade as companies all try to convert whatever product or service they offer into a subscription or as Cricut is doing, just charging customers to use their own property. They’re already trying it with cars and I feel…

This list really just illustrates the fundamental disconnect dealers (and manufactures by extension) have with the car buying public. Most of the stuff on this list are things dealerships should be doing with every customer anyways, regardless of what they’re buying. A sales staff that actually knows something about…