Look the simple story here is that octane rating is a means to prevent pre-ignition. Any car with OBDII will tell you if you are doing it wrong because it will have knock sensors to detect pre-ignition. The best tuning you can hope for is as much timing advance as you can get before pre-ignition. Thats the point of…

I think you’re engine has issues, I ran e10 in ours all the time.  pre and post supercharger.

Seriously, the Suburban of all things would probably run fine on goat piss. 

Definitely do not put premium in the suburban. The vortec 7400 will make no use of it and it is throwing money away. Even with a 7 psi centrifugal supercharger on ours we would run 89 in the winter because it just didn’t need it. No pinging. In summer or under load it was 91 minimum for sure but again... Supercharger.…

Yeah, we’ll get it in the US. They’re building a whole new factory with Toyota.

They’re using Toyota money to develop a shared RWD platform.

I wouldn’t say they didn’t update it. The interior after 2018 is completely different, and there was a mild facelift to go along with the turbo engine.

If GM can build EV chassis for Honda, Mazda can partner up with somebody for something.

I’m still extremely upset we never got the 6 Wagon

To be fair, the CX-5 is the new 6 in the same way the CRV is the new Accord and the RAV-4 is the new Camry. Sad but true.

Mazda and Toyota have been in bed together for a while now...

It’s feels so weird that the prior generation of oldies wanted large but low sedans as their retirement vehicles. Would they have also gone coocoo for crossovers if those had existed back in the day?

I’m still surprised they never did a rubberized wagon version and made a poor man’s Allroad for people who want a fancy Outback.

I wonder if they are axing the 6 to introduce a new nameplate in their recent quest to move up market. Or they’re just going full Ford and giving up on sedans in America. 

Back up camera. I’m honestly glad these things are mandated now, because holy shit are they life-changing.

Now, before some of you start your “blah blah blah lazy drivers, my *insert vintage POS here* doesn’t even have mirrors, and I turned out OK” rants, I still use all my mirrors when driving, parking, etc. But…

Time to step into parent corner and talk about LATCH. Back in the day, child seats would simply loop the lower lap restraint through a little slide area, and that’s how you kept a baby safe.

I just showed this to my husband, and he’s right--she looks like Borat.

It takes just one feature for the Lightning to pound the Cybertruck into pointlessness—leaving the Cybertruck to be bought by some Musk Minions while Ford laughs all the way to the bank from the sales Ford will reap.

I guess I was hoping for a sport truck look: lowered, chin spoiler, and some rad ‘Lightning’ graphics on the bed sides.

I knew the Frunk was generally a good idea. I just wasn’t prepared to understand how great of an idea it is on a big truck like this.