1. I drive a car with a dial shifter. I’ve never once thought it was a volume knob because most times I’m not an idiot.

I honestly don’t know how anyone learns to drive a stick shift anymore. It’s probably the least user friendly way to drive a car, and takes a lot of time and practice to use properly, and yet some…

Articles like this perfectly encompass the prevailing culture of bitchy complaining that pretty much dominates this website.

I agree with all except re-imagining the automatic transmission lever - so long as it clears up the center area for either something clever.

I am good at touchtyping. But no, this isn’t even remotely equivalent, because when you are touchtyping your hands are resting on home row. When your are driving your hands are on the steering wheel and your center stack is arms length from you. Steering wheel controls, sure, I don’t have to look. If I have to take my…

It depends on the button/dial shape... But I’m with you. I usually need a glance too. But i think the glance is shorter with buttons than with touch screens.

The Monostable -Joystick- or rotary shifter has a purpose. It allows the vehicle the ability to shift itself. Automatic parking, shift to park when the driver opens the door and remote summon are a few reasons. If you want your conventional shifter it now needs a motor and control system to move it back and forth.

I have NEVER in any vehicle I’ve ever been in or owned been able to operate anything in the center stack without looking. Buttons, touch screen, I still have to look.
I genuinely do not get how people can do it by feel. 

He’s referring to “choke” as the venturi housing wherein the choke resides. I would say the US term of “barrel” is more accurate in that it is referring to the housing as a whole versus one (less important) part of it. What would be called a twin-choke carb in the UK is a 2-barrel in the US.

Antiroll bars are called…

Well you have to admit he fits right in with the we’re-supposed-to-be-writers-but-are-incompetent-at-writing American crowd that he works with now.

“Why must you be like this, America? It’s just making things awkward”

I came back to my native Germany from an exchange year in the US (Arkansas of all places) and my English grade dropped from a B+ right down to a barely passed D.

In Texas, I live there, on a private sale the title should be signed over on the spot. But and there is a big but, if the guy selling the car owed money to a lender (be it dealer or bank) he technically would not have had the actual title, it would be in possession of the lien holder. He would then need to pay the…

If you’re the type of person who reads the fine print perhaps you don’t deserve to own a Tesla.

Tesla has build quality and marketing scams that would make old British Leyland wince. And a cultish following willing to overlook those thing that would make Scientology envious.

Remove spark plugs to lessen compression, see if starter spins it then

You’ll usually have to bodge something under the bonnet, so keep lots of spares in the boot, but don't bodge the windscreen if you want to pass your MoT.

You have Durable, you need it’s opposite, Fragile. A fragile car probably needs regular maintenance, but it definitely needs a sympathetic hand.

Well, Im not young, and Im not a domestic fanboy. Places like CR and JD Power and such that rate car reliability all suck at it because they look at them very short term and then conjure a rating out of thin air. Trusting a small sample size no matter the subject is a fools errand. 

Your thing about Japanese cars and rust is probably 30 years out of date.

My $35k Model 3 is parked in the garage right next to my $40k bullet-and-hammer-proof CYBERTRUCK, and both are being powered by my solar roof that cost “no more than a standard roof”.