I’m not doing slideshow nonsense, but one of the worst production motors in modern history is the Daimler/Chrysler 2.7L V6 that ruined the Intrepid/Concorde run for about 4 years.

I will not stand for this slander of the 3800.

Don’t forget David Tracy.

I’ve watched a few of these and love the technical discussion, though I always feel like his hatred of the “parts bin” is a bit too idealistic maybe, in that he acts like it’s just laziness and money that drives parts bin engineering when there are as many reasons for it as there are against.

Victoria,

That’s awesome of you, but my big concern is that her shop is REALLY putting the screws to her.

I really think she needs a second opinion.  If I were in Dallas, I would offer one, however, I’m 5 hours from Dallas.  That’s why I offered to take the estimate from the shop, and re-estimate it using my parts…

3500 before labor.

As a very seasoned mechanic, and shop owner, I’m calling bullshit. Well, mostly, because I don’t know what the other smaller items consist of, and how many of them there are.

I can tell you this - if I had a customer pull into my shop with a ‘96 Suburban and I gave them a 3500 estimate BEFORE LABOR…

1st: I have loved just about everything about F150 Lighting since it got revealed. I love that it looks like a normal truck. I love that there is real innovation like with the generator feature that makes the vehicle seem futuristic without being gimmicky. I love that the base model costs about 4k more than a base…

Complaining about Ford not committing to some far off date to be a “All Electric” why? These pledges are the Paris Climate Accord of automater policy. A nonbinding, nothing sandwich corporate virtue signal. BEV very well may be the way, or we may realize in 10 years that we need to go a different route. Either way…

[24 hours later] “Here’s what’s going on with this wheel [slideshow]”

But how does it compare to, say, an M1A1 Abrams main battle tank? That’s the comparison that actually matters.

“It’s surprising that going hybrid is pretty much the only way for a consumer to make a significant change in fuel consumption.” I mean, only if you don’t get that the most effective way to improve fuel economy in an ICE-powered car is just to turn the ICE off a lot of the time.

They are constructed like absolute trash. Let’s see, giant thing that has to go down the road at 90mph, through all elements, over all road salt, debris, bumps and potholes, and has to suffer the occasional bump into something solid.

1st Gear: Both Hyundai and Kia have substantially stepped up their overall product quality in the past decade, and consumers are finally starting to really notice the improvement.

Hey, can we just talk about a design cue that they did really fucking well that other bastions of high fashion car design can’t even grasp?

While I generally find the “all gentrification is evil” narrative pretty limited, to me this is just called: Do Your Research. Figure out what happens in a neighborhood, decide whether or not you’d be happy to live there, and then sign your lease accordingly. Don’t show up and mess with the lives of the people who…

Please don’t say that Goodyears are the same tier as BFG’s, that’s doing a massive disservice to BFG

You are wrong on both counts, sorry to say.

I would be all over this. Any chance to continue driving my V8 Jag way into the future with minimal environmental cost. I do not mind paying more for the fuel.

School Busses should be 100% electric.

This isn’t new. We’ve had this at our HEBs in Texas for as long as I remember: