If you drive a sporty car, like say a WRX-STI or something that comes with summer tires, by all means you definitely should get some winter tires as those summer tires will be garbage in the snow. If you have an outback or something though, that came with M+S rated tires, then I think it’s a waste of time. I live in…

It’s probably an aluminum hood, so weighs almost nothing. A prop is absolutely fine for holding up a hood. Not like most folks look under there that much anyhow.

get an xterra and be done with it.

Well it makes for good material.  Keep up the good work!  :D

Are you sure you don’t do these things just to have material to write about?

I’ve driven a Model-T before and 20mph is plenty fast even in that. I imagine glass was just too damn expensive and dangerous to use much in cars before the teens, could have something to do with it.

Jeremy Clarkson is neither amusing or funny to me.  Not sure how he’s made it this far.  Guess he had never heard of the Traction Avant either.

Yeah I had a similar idea when the leaf first came out, like a little generator you haul around. I’m sure a lot of people did. But yeah I think you are right, a tiny trailer like that would be sooo easy to jacknife, even for a competent person. Would be cool to have as an option though.

Yes I love the old bike boom bikes from the 70s.  Pretty decent build quality, not that hard to acquire.  Mine has all Suntour stuff, which still works great.  I kind of prefer the friction shifters as you can adjust them on the fly.  If your chain’s rattling you just tweak it a little. 

You should have stuck with the 27" wheels. You can still get good enough tires for them and also new aluminum wheels. It’s not worth dealing with the wrong placement of the brakes in switching to 700cc wheels. I have a Centurion from the late 70s that I have fixed up in a similar manner. I stuck with the original…

A long time ago I had one of these at work (XJ).  It’s cool that they built them for so long, and of course the old straight six is an easy engine to work on, but man not sure what those back seats are for.   Your double-amputee friends?  Not sure.  It was a fun little rig, but they are probably death traps by today’s…

There probably is very little maintenance on a well built car like say a Nissan Leaf. These Teslas are obviously not built to as high of standards as say a Toyota Camry, or even an Altima. So simple electric cars should be very maintenance free if well built.  

Rule #1: Don’t trust anything a car dealer says.

This is bad, but not nearly as bad as the opposite (gasoline in a diesel engine).

It’s too long.  All that offroad gear and nowhere to go.  Makes for the ultimate poser-truck.

Yes I mean the gladiator in general. The wheelbase is too long. They should have tucked the rear wheels in under the rear of the cab a little and shortened the bed just a bit. A much better breakover angle would be worth sacrificing a little in departure angle. Sure most of these will never see the dirt, but they will…

It’s long wheelbase negates most of it’s gnarly off road hardware.  My pedestrian frontier could probably go more places than one of these things. 

The lengths auto makers will go to not build wagons is impressive.  Let’s face it, all modern car-based SUV’s are just wagons by another name.  Unnecessarily tall ones.

They should have just given us the D23 and be done with it. Again an automaker over-thinking what the US market wants. It’ll probably be just a revised D40 with fender bulges and a huge grille. Is the Colorado diesel a flop? It’s still available. Maybe they don’t really want to sell diesels. GM hardly advertises them,…

Yeah trust me I just was under there dropping my fuel tank for some repairs and it’s fully boxed.  Well maybe not if you include the cross members.  I don’t know about the 2wd ones, but I doubt they are that much different.