That’s what gets me. GM can have killer cars, they can burn down to the ground if you run the AC for too long, they can leave the factory and sell without brakes, etc., but they just get a slap on the wrist.

Y’know, whoever is responsible, whether it goes all the way to Sergio or not, should be shot. How much could it cost to do the right thing vs. take a $70 million fine, PLUS buyback, PLUS oversight? Idiots. (And I have 3 in my driveway).

Will this do?

Hands down it’s underestimating the time it will take you to complete a job. My rule of thumb is to think of everything that could go wrong, factor that time in, and then double it. Whether it’s a part that you didn’t realize you would need, a tool you don’t quite have, or a nut you’ll strip...you will be under the…

Oof, the new Miata is a tough sell for me. I love small cars, but when I had my NA Miata, space was always a big question mark. Of course, I’m putting this in the realm of the daily driver - not that of the track car.

And yet the gov’t is shaming Jeep (FCA) over having fuel tanks behind the rear axle in a vehicle that met the safety requirements of the time, coming up a with a suitable fix anyway and beefing up the design, and then being the bad guy when the gov’t changes their mind?

Yeah, that seems fair.

Suspicious truck looks

Too bad we can’t get a brown diesel manual crossover...

timing chains? Piffle.

Tom, gap insurancr covers the gap in your loan to the market value for your car. Its not new car replacement.

None of those fancy drawings, justifications, and promises of lower airfare will make that awful sardine packing of passengers look like anything but this to me.

The guy certainly talks like a CEO. If it talks like a duck.. I say give him the money.

I normally don’t comment here, but after having experienced the ‘Nardelli touch’ first hand as a consumer, I feel slightly qualified.

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How about the old Ford 300/4.9l Inline 6?

2005-2014 Golf/Jetta’s 5 cylinder 07K engine... for a myriad of reasons. Number one being the easy throwback to the glory days of the Group B Rally days (Audi, VW, ok, close enough...) But also there is the lesser known facts that certain generations came with factory forged cranks (in a NA motor!) The heads are…

The 2.5L 5-banger that as offered as the base engine for the Rabbit/Goft until recently

The ford 300 straight 6 up till 1996. It was Bulletproof and great torque numbers. They had no reason to discontinue it. Other than it was too reliable.

SAAB B201

My wife and I bought a 2014 VW Jetta Sportwagen 2.5 SE and are happy with it so far. The fact that there was over $4,000 on the hood didn’t hurt either. The best part, though? It really is an honest-to-goodness wagon. In fact, it reminds me of one of the first vehicles we ever owned together, even before we got…