I’m pretty liberal, but I don’t see the problem in paying significantly more money for a ticket that entitles someone to larger seats, a hot meal, free drinks, and access to a less busy bathroom.

There are extenuating circumstances and most flight attendants are really cool about accommodating kids. If you sit in economy, I personally wouldn’t care if you had to use the first class lavatory for your kid.

Do you know what a transverse mounted FWD platform is? Sending a small driveshaft to the back wheels is no replacement for proper balanced engine mounting position and a larger torque converter automatic that will only fit in a longitudinal configuration. Yes a FWD platform with AWD will be better than just a plain…

I’m not sure why you included that pic. It looks terrible. Like someone went to Pep Boys and got some yellow door edge protector and applied it to their splitter so it wouldn’t get scratched up “when their wife drove it”.

A new gen Conti on the CD6 would probably be a huge improvement. Ford moving the Explorer to the new platform significantly improved that car. I bet things like lighter plastics and slightly cheaper switchgear could then be overlooked considering its lower price. I think it could happen. Continental sales haven’t been…

Last time I checked the A8 uses a longitudinal engine mounting. And even so, because it is so much further ahead of the front axle, it does kinda still feel like a FWD car. There’s a reason why Audi is not known for driving dynamics and is the worst selling large luxury car in America. In fact, even the Genesis G90…

I think the bigger “problem” is that it’s a transverse engine FWD platform. It gives it a distinct economy car feel underneath all the luxury car. I can’t even say that it’s good or bad, but it just reminds me of NOT being a “real” RWD luxury car. It’s just different, really, but that difference is what other FWD cars…

That’s true. The Continental really has probably the nicest interior (except for the navigator) of any American car in recent history. That said, I think they use a little too much chromed plastic, but that’s more of a taste thing. Americans still love chrome. And they still have some very small bits of Ford in the…

That’s technically right, but carmakers have been known to share parts between their economy cars and shared platform luxury cars before. Though, that happens far less now that all those interior plastic parts are just made in China for pennies on the dollar. Even high quality plastics and vinyls can be made for very…

I don’t want to get into politics, as I think climate change shouldn’t be a political discussion. I only mentioned liberal because it was easier to get my point across about the readership of Jalopnik.

Auto-down windows usually also mean auto-up

Well designed switches should make it much harder to trigger auto-down. So you should still have fine control over the window placement.

It seems that for most gearheads, awareness of climate change and loving cars must be mutually exclusive. I’m not sure why that is, but that’s how it is. Jalopnik is about as liberal of a car blog as you can get and I doubt even here many people will take a post like this seriously or without indignation.

You know what MR/RR means right? Mid-engine RWD/Rear-engine RWD. Right? Because that layout restricts the amount of space available to a car’s drivetrain just like FWD (FF) layouts do they also all use DCT automatics. They’ll almost never use modern high performance TC automatics.

Yang is an Ivy League educated lawyer. No one is really sure whether his pilot program is a campaign violation or not. Either way, because of the ambiguity, it’d be hard to convince anyone that Yang intentionally violated any law considering not even the FEC is sure of its legality. Why would his endorsement do more…

They’re usually dating self-loathing Asian girls who have unfortunately been brainwashed into trying to be as “white” as possible. Dating someone from the alt-right somehow reinforces to them that they are white, and not Asian. It’s really sad to see and seems to be especially bad in the Asian-American community.

In the history of the world, it’s always been economics and inequality that has driven people to do terrible things. You think Yang is glossing over what you consider the important issues. Others would argue that the other candidates are concentrating on the social issues to distract from the real underlying issues in…

The DCT automatic transmission for longitudinal applications in FR cars is for all intents and purposes dead. All the new performance cars using that layout use planetary geared TC automatics. The only application where carmakers continue to use DCT automatics are transverse (FF) layouts where there is limited space…

I’d be surprised if the LT4 sounded very different from the LT1. You have to remember this is just a bad GoPro recording.

It has nothing to do with Jalopnik. It’s common among the entire car community and people in general.