When plane seats were bigger, they also cost significantly more. Seats are small because the customers demand lower fares above all else. It’s not the airlines’ fault, it’s the customers’ fault for smaller seats, worse service, and fewer amenities. All in the name of cheaper tickets. Whenever I see a decent deal on…

It’s just that losers are the only ones who brag about having guns. People with lives and other things to worry about own guns just to own guns. It doesn’t define their life.

Dude, these are tickets for going over 100mph. It’s not for going 100 OVER the limit. On the 65mph freeway, 99.9% of cars on the road aren’t capable of going 100+65=165mph. Most high power performance sport sedans are limited to 155-160mph. Virtually every car on the road is capable of going over 100mph though, and…

Sounds like they’re BOF SUVs. In which case that doesn’t really apply to a sports car discussion. For a heavy SUV, the number is somewhere closer to 450hp.

I’m generally against police chases as they are now, but often people running have stolen the cars. Checking the plates won’t do a thing. 

They actually sell every single one they make. They can’t keep them in stock. I just mean when they start ramping up production and meeting demand. They’re actually not that huge relative to the crossover market, they just look bigger than they are. They’re classified as a midsized crossover.

The ZF 9HP is nothing like the 8HP. Most transverse planetary transmissions have a low torque rating, not very good torque converters, and the 9HP specifically has two dog clutches. That’s why it’s so criticized. It has nothing to do with being in a Jeep first.

Ah didn’t know that. Sounds like a large majority of Elantras are probably made in America, though.

Yeah I think the biggest mistake a lot of people make is to buy their first manual car when they’re like 30 years old and they buy something like an M3 or Corvette. Learning to drive on a little hot hatch or even just a small econo car with a stick is so much fun. I’ve seen a lot of people get frustrated trying to…

The ZF 8HP transmission is a longitudinal automatic so obviously that particular model wouldn’t work in a FWD car. You’ll find no performance oriented transverse (FWD/AWD) cars use conventional automatics anymore because they are much bigger. They pretty much all use manuals or DCTs which can be made much smaller than…

Drag strip and 0-60 times are there to give us an idea how powerful and light a car is. It’s just to show us how a car will feel. Most of us aren’t going to the drag strip and having an imaginary contest to see how many tenths we can lower our drag times by. Most of us don’t go to a race track to beat some imaginary…

Well they seem to be selling really well. I see a ton of them in my area pretty much as soon as they came out. Usually I don’t see that many models of new cars until after a year or so.

Basically >90% of American Hyundais are made in America. The Elantra, Sonata, and Santa Fe make up basically all of their sales and all three models are made in America.

Well there’s also the concept of saving up enough money before you buy a car. I know there is always going to be a fringe case of someone who is desperate and needs a car right away due to some unforeseen circumstance, but that is not the norm. Most people are just buying cars when they could easily wait to save up…

That’s an interesting way to say that Hyundai offered him more money than VW Group was willing to.

You mean that’s the design you prefer. I find it interesting that people always claim some design that they idolized in their youth or a car their parents or they happened to own happens to be the objective “best” design. For me, the B5 A4 is a far better looking car. But I know that’s just subjective. I think the C5, …

Whenever someone makes a comment about a lot of plastic on an interior I wonder if they’ve ever sat in a modern car. Even cars that cost $100k have a lot of plastic on the interior. There are cheap plastics and there are expensive plastics. They’re not all created equal. These are cars that we want to be as light as…

Peter Schreyer is not owned by Audi. Audi has HIM to thank for his design prowess. Corporations are not what make great cars, it’s the people they hire. 

The X5 had a third row since before the X7 even existed.

This is a blog. Stuff is not meant to be taken too seriously here. If you want journalism, go to the Post or the Globe. I’m not saying they can just make stuff up either. But floating is a really bad thing when you’re trying to wade a stream. Once you tires lose grip, you’re at the whim of the river. You might never…