On every single car I’ve ever owned, I went out of my way to get the smallest wheels possible

If you belong to an internet forum for your car (who doesn’t?) try to befriend a few people in your area with garages. Usually a post like “I’m replacing a clutch and need a place to work” is all it takes. In addition to having a place to work, I’ve found that major projects become like Amish barn raising but with…

My daily driver is a 20 year old Ford Bronco, which I find to be more fun, capable, and practical than any new SUV on the market. I did the math a few years ago by comparing the Bronco’s operating costs to that of a new Wrangler, which is the closest new substitute. Factoring in payments, higher insurance, and…

I love that the video flashes “uncompromised wheel articulation” on the screen while showing the car traversing a very small ridge with one of the front wheels about a foot off the ground still tucked in the fender.

I love the way Ford advertises the “ruggedness” of the Explorer on TV by showing it driving on a remote but very smooth dirt road with cloudy skies and bit of lightning while an incredibly irritating Katy Perry-esque pop song plays in the background. Who is Ford trying to fool/appeal to exactly?

Sadly fat, boring crossovers are huge sellers right now - even among those who have the money to buy practically anything. Unfortunately I don’t think Tesla could afford not to make a crossover in today’s market.

Oh I get it now, your country (and by extension you) has never taken a stand in international affairs and made a mistake. We have a term for that in the US: armchair quarterback. Someone who sits on the couch and yells loudly at (American) football players having never played the game himself. Where are you from btw,…

So where are you from that makes you righteous enough to pass judgement on the opinions of everyone else in the world? Let me know and I’ll judge if your opinions are valid or not based on what your country did or didn’t do in the past, how does that sound?

Of course we get to choose, if you saw your best friend and a complete stranger drowning in a lake and you only had one life preserver who would you throw it to? Perhaps you’d not throw it all because if you can’t help everyone you wouldn’t help anyone?

Well let me flip the script on you then: The US has done so many wonderful things such as inventing the internet, electing a black president, helping to stop the genocide in Kosovo, putting a man on the moon, rebuilding Germany and Japan after WWII, etc that no one has the right to criticize anything it ever does.…

Hey, 2001 called, it wants its ranty, quasi-pejorative term for Republicans back.

Yup you are right, no American has the right to criticize anything that any other country, tinpot dictator, or genocidal maniac ever does ever again from now until the end of time. Thanks for reminding us!

Actually yes, with modern air/missile defense systems and fighter screens combined with thick armor battleships would be much less vulnerable than any of our other surface ships. The Yamato and Musashi were sacrificed in desperate, unprotected, poorly planned hail-Mary attempts to stop the American advance across the…

If reactivation cost a billion dollars that would be the equivalent of 3 F35s, seems like a bargain to me!

When I lived in DC in the early 00’s there was a Russian diplomat’s son who would get piss drunk and tear through the streets in a 7 Series. He was in the news at least every few months for causing accidents and running into things, it took him mowing down a pedestrian or two to finally be kicked out. I have a feeling…

Believe me the Russians would, in fact that is precisely Comrade Putin’s wet dream: disarming booby traps with one hand while holding a torch made out of a Nazi femur and his shirt in the other.

The possibility of a new Bronco is the best auto news I’ve heard for a long, long time! My daily driver ‘96 Bronco is really starting to show its age. I love it but I have been considering replacing it with a Wrangler, even though I’m not a Jeep guy, since it is the only legitimate 4x4 SUV left. I will hold out for a…

That Geico ship commercial is the worst! Why does a US Navy helicopter pilot have a Jamaican accent and why does a 70 year old museum ship have a captain? WTF?

The reason it is so expensive is that Jeep has a monopoly on the off road SUV market. The only other SUV that has remotely similar capability is the 4runner, and it hasn’t seen a major update for over 10 years! I have no idea why other OEMs haven’t notice the heaps of cash Jeep is making on the Wrangled and jumped…

Is it making 0 HP at the crank or the paddle?