This is one of those things that really makes me wish The Grand Tour was still doing the tent and regular car program, it would be great to see those 3 dick around in these cars in a real environment and see what happened. 

Neutral: I would like to see Netflix do a documentary on the Firestone/Explorer tire fiasco.

Good, fast, cheap — pick any two, or sometimes only one. Let me give you a perspective from someone who works inside the system.

Exactly. The parents are looking at the wrong points of comparison here.

Let’s cut the bullshit... when Tesla sold the car, it had the Auto-Pilot and FSD features. Tesla undoubtedly knew that the car had those features. If Tesla didn’t intend to sell the car with those features, then those features should have been removed from the car while the car was in Tesla’s possession... once they…

I’ve been defending Jalopnik writers against the appearance of an anti-GM bias for the last couple of days. I may be wrong. Yet another “GM is Bad” post? I would have been with you if you had stayed with GM needs to capitalize on their tech R&D. I agree that GM’s lackluster stock price is a reflection of the markets’…

With the slim headlights and updated grill, the design language reminds me of the 3rd gen Caravan/Voyager.

Funny, I don’t need to imagine what it feels like to find a shit-load of ice in my Ford’s trunk. Because water has been magically finding its way into my Fiesta’s trunk for apparently most of the winter and filling my spare tire well. Freezing my spare tire in about two inches of ice.

Absolutely. Perfect point? My now 9 year old Chevy Volt. Even now hardly anyone other than Honda offers anything like it. The 2nd Gen Volt is still the best of its kind. And yet they stopped making them.

and if you park you car in a garage for some time this could become quite dangerous

Beleive it or not a lot of people really liked these cars when they were new. They could be had with an inline six whose starter had more power, or a slightly more potent V8 inhaling through a drinking straw.

car related hacks in 2019: 150

My money’s on the supplier pulling out, Amazon was already trying to lower Whole Foods pricing, and I bet they were pushing the supplier to do the same for them. Said supplier probably then couldn’t maintain or went under, or just said fuck it and pulled out of the deal.

If I believe hard enough, it will come true.

I wonder if the stiffness of that thermoplastic material changes over time and with temperature, especially under the heavier loads of a big rig? Also, I’m skeptical about the ability to put chains on those when needed in the winter.

Just because the Mercedes V12 (M275) exists, doesn’t make it great. It’s got the old 3 valve head design off the old 5.8 V12 (M137) that debuted at the turn of the millennium. (5.8 liter with 362 hp)

lol Jalop covers this saga endlessly for months, then writes almost a blurb about it at the climax that focuses on one off color remark without paying attention to any of the rest.

What? If the Fusion is profitable, which it looks like it is, then it is generating its own cash flow. Shutting it down *eliminates* cash flow. If there are other profitable revenue streams, Ford can easily borrow to fund them.

The Fusion was/is a good car. It’s bigger instead, somehow, than the Taurus, handles WAY better, gets good gas mileage, and is a generally pleasant appliance car. One thing that always bugged me was the 2.oT never felt like it had the 250 HP it claimed. Maybe Ford dialed a bunch of power back in the tuning, but it…