To add to that: when you buy an expensive sports car, you are buying the name, the higher quality materials, the higher quality finish. The lower companies (Ford, Chevy, GM, VW, Honda, Hyundai, etc.) are now able to get much higher quality materials and finish for the same price that they used to and the quality is…

Neutral:

I happen to live in the frigid cold north (really just Michigan, but it’s still balls cold up here), and the first thing my dad and I did when I was learning to drive was go to the school parking lot during winter break right after a snowstorm so I could learn how to control a car in the nasty weather. Probably the…

Sadly, because of the chicken tax, they would loose money hand over fist on every truck they sold if they priced it competitively. Or it would be grossly overpriced if they tried to make a profit.

1st Gear: The Cars Are Better Than The Roads

SAFER barriers are excellent at dissipating energy in crashes where the cars are still on the ground, but don’t do anything once the car is airborne. Go look at the several NASCAR crashes where the cars went into the stands. The large metal fences kept the bulk of the car in the track area and away from the spectators…

The state even has Willow Run Airport, a 335-acre site ripe for being developed into an unmatched testing track, the American Center for Mobility, for the cars of tomorrow.

Or you gained an extra one somehow.

That right there is why the lighting standards suck. They are supposed to be for practicality and safety, not looks. Amber turn signals are much easier to notice against the red of a taillight or brake light. And amber turn signals don’t have to have an amber lens that admittedly, yes, it looks a bit odd. An led…

Got a $500 Dakota that I thought I would use as a daily since my trans gave up the ghost in my Jimmy. The engine would cut out abruptly and seemingly randomly and I remembered the previous owner said that the timing might be off by a tooth (I know, I’m an idiot for even buying this thing after hearing that), so I…

That reminds me of a downhill mountain bike race where the commentators said, and I quote “How can he sit down with balls that big!” after someone won the race by about 11 seconds in the pouring rain. British commentators are something else.

Don’t forget about those coal-rolling krautwagens!

It did a fucking bunny hop when he shifted!

You forgot your grill for that read meat you talked about.

Neutral: What Will Happen With Insurance On Autonomous Cars?

The Sportwagen section isn’t too bad ... OK, I lied. Sometimes it’s terrible.

Yea, there are a few things that VW’s system is not good at, multiple media formats being one of them. You can’t ‘browse’ through music on your phone using your car, only go to the next or previous song in the playlist. But I typically just listen to CD’s or the radio and Spotify through bluetooth if I feel like it.…

4th Gear: Keep it Simple

They should go back to what Saturn used to do where the price of the car is the price of the car (not including add-ons like undercoating and floor-mats).

The dealer would still be there for test drives, delivery, service, people that are crazy and actually want to haggle with the “manager” for three hours, basically everything that deals with the physical car itself. The online part would be for ordering the cars and dealing with the financing. The flip side to this is…