I keep fearing that this is the new Probe. Ford figures the Mustang’s days are numbered, and they’re trying to ease us into this as its next evolution.

I differ. I find it real damn bad.

It’s really not that bad, it just shouldn’t be called a Mustang of any kind. That’s my only real gripe.

Well, there was this vindictive billionaire who made Gawker go bust, which lead to it being acquired by a Spanish television station, which had financial problems so it was sold to a bunch of very stupid venture capital types who nobody likes and do not appear to know what they’re doing, and they’re seemingly intent…

I have questions:

I thought it looked a little constipated.

It looks upset with you because you ate the last slice of pizza. 

Also worrying that you might have to replace the car because you needed to do a brake job is like thinking you need a new fridge because the ice trays are empty. I don’t know how they’re worried that cost would outweigh being upside down on another loan for the better part of a decade.

100%. The comment on how the cost of a brake job “stung a bit” also seems to indicate that they’re right on the edge of being able to afford a Kia Optima level of car even with a 6 year loan. The real answer to this question is that the cost of maintaining and repairing a used car will almost never exceed the…

That’s exactly what I was thinking. It doesn’t sound like they have any idea what one of those car costs over their KIA. Unless they are going to basically trade their KIA on an equal year used Acura and start all over with a 6 year loan, and that is just pure stupidity.....

All cars require little maintenance if you are good at ignoring noises. I don’t look for low maintenance on my cars, I look for ease of maintenance. I want plenty of room in the engine bay, easy suspensions to work on, transmission drain plugs, etc. I do the work myself so when I am faced with a problem like a wheel…

or the wife won’t survive the Lexus....depends on which you’re more interested in keeping long term....could go either way.  

If they had to get a 6 year loan on a Kia Optima and pay it out to the last month of the loan, they might want to reconsider such a class jump for their next car.

It’ll survive the apocalypse, but it won’t survive the “wife despises the styling” factor.

Sometimes I feel like cars that “don’t need a lot of maintenance” are just actually better at hiding how broken they are from their oblivious owners.

It sounds like the flash storage is embedded in the MCU, which means the only realistic repair option is to replace the entire MCU, which is a major component. Price wise, it sounds like it runs somewhere between $2000 - $4000. I have no idea if that includes labor. Basically, the brain of the car needs to be replaced…

I’ve seen this before. Someone in software is debugging something, ramps up the logging, fixed 6 the problem and either forgets to turn off the logging or the software manager re-tasks the software person to something else. A few years ago I showed up to investigate why a piece of equipment wasn’t working. The 2TB…

The sad reality is that things like this happen all the time in large-scale software/tech projects.  It’s good development discipline to log things at every step, though the common practice is to establish thresholds and to operate normally at a somewhat-sane level of logging.  You dial it up to “ludicrous mode” when…

The hardware engineer, product manager, NPI manager, and everyone up the chain responsible for reviewing MTBF here should be ceremonially hung upside down naked, covered in honey, and set upon by a colony of fire ants.*

$250 a week and a $9k bonus. Plus 3% and 4% payments. Plus a 6% raise. And a path out of perma-temp positions. Yeah, they’re really being screwed by this UAW here.