I wonder how AOC would feel about those dirty F1 cars screaming around NYC? ... View more

All EV's are heavy. The EV Hummer is 9000 pounds! More battery, more weight. ... View more

It's probably easier to get parts for a Miura, than that Lambo ... View more

My memory of Mitsubishi is that of unreliable rust buckets. There was a time when you saw Eclipse' everywhere. I couldn't tell you the last time I saw one. I actually drove a wore out example, years ago. The steering was all over the place and it was the loosest, noisiest car I have ever driven. If you have heard the expression "held together with bubble gum and baling wire" it described this particular Eclipse to a tee. ... View more

Yes, I would take one. All day long. ... View more

Though really good looking, in rust belt country, those early 70's models would rust while you were looking at them. It was so bad, I'm surprised they haven't started rusting in the pictures. 🙂 ... View more

This is a great example of why GM cars hardly exist anymore. The design team was trying to improve packaging and efficiency. Nowhere is it stated, that it is what customers wanted. Could you imagine ANYONE going into a Chevy dealership and asking if they are building front wheel drive Camaro's yet? Blasphemy.... 🙂 ... View more

BMW seems to do just fine. ... View more

I feel like I lost a member of my family. I have watched Motor Week for decades! RIP Pat. Thanks for all the content and wisdom you brought us. ... View more

There is probably some nostalgia there for someone who had one of those cares, but none of those raise any desire high enough to even make me look a third time. I would take almost anything from the Big 3 built from 1955 to 1977 instead. And I do mean anything. I might be interested in the MR2. I have always heard those are fun cars to drive. ... View more

Typical GM. Oh...we are electrifying soon, so let's show the GM faithful what they could have had all along. ... View more

I wonder what the future will have to say about the styling of a 2020 Chevy Impala 80 years from now.....lol. Well...frankly almost any car built by the big three in the last 30 years. ... View more

Unless there is some significant improvement in EV batteries in the next couple years, I think a lot of these car manufacturers are going to be in big trouble going all electric. I wouldn't be surprised to see Cadillac go belly up. I didn't right this, but the math is reasonable? Car manufacturers have a lot of smart people working for them. Surely, they have reasoned this out. For reference, if you didn't know, a Tesla Supercharging station costs about $500k each, supposedly. "EV Charging Insanity In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600, 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. That is enough to power 20,000 homes. No one likely thinks about the fact that it can take 30 minutes to 8 hours to recharge a vehicle between empty or just topping off. What are the drivers doing during that time? “If you’ve got cars coming into a petrol station, they would stay for an average of five minutes. If you’ve got cars coming into an electric charging station, they would be at least 30 minutes, possibly an hour, but let’s say its 30 minutes. So that’s six times the surface area to park the cars while they’re being charged. So, multiply every petrol station in a city by six. Where are you going to find the place to put them?” Used Car Market The average used EV will need a new battery before an owner can sell it, pricing them well above used internal combustion cars. The average age of an American car on the road is 12 years. A 12-year-old EV will be on its third battery. A Tesla battery typically costs $10,000 so there will not be many 12-year-old EVs on the road. Good luck trying to sell your used green fairy tale electric car! EVs Per Block In Your Neighborhood A home charging system for a Tesla requires a 75-amp service. The average house is equipped with 100-amp service. On most suburban streets the electrical infrastructure would be unable to carry more than three houses with a single Tesla. For half the homes on your block to have electric vehicles, the system would be wildly overloaded. Batteries Although the modern lithium-ion battery is four times better than the old lead-acid battery, gasoline holds 80 times the energy density. The great lithium battery in your cell phone weighs less than an ounce while the Tesla battery weighs 1,000 pounds. And what do we get for this huge cost and weight? We get a car that is far less convenient and less useful than cars powered by internal combustion engines. Conclusion The electric automobile will always be around in a niche market likely never exceeding 10% of the cars on the road. All automobile manufacturers are investing in their output and all will be disappointed in their sales. Perhaps they know this and will manufacture just what they know they can sell. ... View more

That Packard is stunning! ... View more

Modify a Mustang for 100 miles? uhh...yea...no. ... View more

New transmissions and Ford don't instill a whole lot of confidence. Their DCT was a complete disaster. ... View more

It's a better effort than the Commander. Remember that Jeep? They kind of phoned that one in. I'd take one of these Wagoneers, but I think I am getting cynical in my old age. All I hear about those interior options is...this is going to break and oh yea, this is going to be obsolete, and no, you don't really need this or that....here is something else that will cost you an arm and a leg to fix. I guess if you have $100k to spend on a truck, good for you, but all that stuff breaks. ... View more

I look under that hood and I break out in a cold sweat. Not in excitement, but in the misery that would come from working in that engine bay. Ugh ... View more

This is why companies go out of business. They don't sell customers what they want. The company wants to tell YOU what you want. Pretty soon you will be paying a monthly subscription for heated seats. ... View more

When GM sells 25 Ev's in the 4th quarter, most people would realize that there was some serious puckering going on in the GM board room. They may say they are going 100% electric (with a number of other manufacturers) but my guess that is more virtue signaling than reality. They do have to stay in business after all. ... View more

I'm in NE Ohio. It's the middle of January and there isn't a single snow flake on the ground. Not everything about global warming is bad. 🙂 ... View more

Give it a good power washing and then see if she runs. Why does it need to be totally restored? Get it running, make sure the mechanicals are up to snuff and drive it. Patina is worth something. ... View more

$100K?? That's a lot of coinage. With EV sales only making up roughly 2-3% of current sales, I hope GM doesn't hang their hat on robust EV Silverado sales. They only sold 25 EV's in the 4th quarter of 2021. I would love to hear the discussions in the board room. ... View more

Could it be that the switch to trucks parallel the switch of car manufacturers to more and more front wheel drive offerings? I know that's a big reason why I drive Tahoe's. I hate front wheel drive. I bought a 74 Grand Am that once I get it all sorted out, I hope to daily drive in the summers. I also have a G8 that is an awesome car in its own right. ... View more

" I contend that emissions from carbureted, non-catalytic converter having V8s make up so little pollution anymore in the grand scheme that going after them in the manner you say is just vindictive and unlikely to gather wide support outside of a state by state basis" The same could be said for lawn equipment in California and yet there they are.  All their new equipment needs to be electric.  Meanwhile, 100's of ocean freighters are spewing a year's worth of emissions in just a couple weeks just sitting out there in the Pacific.  I could care less if you reply.  I stated my case.  You stated yours.   ... View more

I totally disagree.  It's very much on topic.  Every year that you don't think they are coming for your car, I guarantee you they are coming for your car.  Piece by piece.  You might want to wait until next week, month, year, but Politicians are like rust, they never sleep.  Here you have a bunch of politicians that never did a burn out in their life determining whether you should have a loud exhaust or not.  And guess what they picked.  Governor Hochul Signs Legislation Cracking Down on Noisy, Illegal Mufflers and Exhaust Systems - YouTube ... View more

If you're old enough, you know not to put all your eggs in one basket.  We are watching in real time an entire car industry put all its eggs into the EV basket.   Never mind the mining environmental destruction/disaster, the load on the already over stressed electrical grid, poor recharge time, the inevitable piling up of old batteries (current battery recycling is around 10-20%) the consumer outcry when they have to spend $20k for a replacement battery or a resale close to zero on an 8 year old EV.   Don't get me wrong, I've ridden in a Tesla and Chevy Volt and EV's will someday be an awesome ride, but the battery tech is not there yet.  The battery needs to be half the size, twice the capacity and charge in a minimum of 10 minutes.   It's rare thing to watch a worldwide social experiment, but we are seeing it right now.   ... View more

The article was about predictions for the car hobby in 2022.  Politics is a huge part of our hobby.  If you don't think politicians are coming for your ride, you're naive.  And I didn't say Democrat or Republican.  I said politicians.   ... View more

I didn't say gas won't be around.  And you aren't paying attention to carb restrictions.  The diesel crowd is under SERIOUS attack right now.  In their case, they kind of brought it on themselves...rolling coal and all.  California outlawed all gas lawn equipment.  Cities across the country are banning new NG installations in homes.  In investing the trend is your friend.  There is a trend going on with IC cars.  To not pay attention to it, is to acquiesce to it.   ... View more

Biden golfs too.  Oh yea.... and he also flew Airforce 1 AND 2 to Glasgow for the climate conference.  Not to mention that hundreds of other countries and rich people that flew their jets there. Makes sense doesn't it?  Burn thousands of gallons jet fuel to take part in something that could have been done through video chat.   My point is, our hobby is under serious attack.   ... View more

1.  With a pen stroke, President Joe Biden cancels Keystone XL pipeline project | Business | Economy and finance news from a German perspective | DW | 21.01.2021 2. Biden halts oil and gas leases, permits on US land and water - ABC News (go.com) 3.  Big Oil blasts Biden for turning to OPEC for more crude - CNN   And oil prices has nothing to do with anything Biden did.  You can thank covid for that. ... View more

Here's my prediction. If you don't vote for the right people, it won't matter what cars are available. All gas cars will be legislated out of existence. Gas will become prohibitively expensive, parts will be hard to find, the EPA will make it darn near impossible to pass emissions. If you didn't have to pass emissions before, you might have too in the future. If you haven't seen what is going on this year, you are not paying close enough attention. ... View more

The way politics are going, your car is going to be worth a fortune. The big three will probably be immune to unavailability of computers for a while, due to their large number of production, but there are already stories of exotics (Ferrari comes to mind) where computers are scarce or not available. You end up with the equivalent of an expensive paper weight. ... View more

Many cars are scrapped early because of the very reasons you mentioned. Can you imagine going through the horror of replacing a fuel pump on a 80s Camaro (if you haven't done it, you owe it to yourself to live that horror) getting a bad one and faced with the reality of doing it again? You are either cutting a hole in the floor or you are scrapping the car. ... View more

Not to get TOO political, but there are some congress people in Michigan that are NOT business friendly. Who can blame any of the big three for setting up shop somewhere else? ... View more

I was never a fan on the box years. I didn't hate them, but they never really did anything for me. I never really understood how the Panther platform was such a success for Ford and GM somehow couldn't make a success out of the Impala/Caprice. For me the pinnacle of Impala and Caprice design was the 65-70 years. Maybe even up to 73. If I remember correctly, weren't those 60's Impala's the best selling cars in America? ... View more

The only thing uglier about the way that BMW looks is the what the future repair bills will look like. ... View more

I have a 74 Pontiac Grand Am that I will probably have until I can't drive anymore. Whether it's because I am too old or the government makes gas so expensive, it becomes prohibitive. With that being said, there is no doubt that EV's are the future. If you have ever ridden in one, you'll get it. BUT! Not with the current battery. It's too big, not enough capacity and takes too long to charge and if it goes bad, it is mucho $$$ to replace. If you have had your EV for a couple years, the entire value of your car is based on the condition of the battery. The growing pains alone will create headwinds for at least the next 10-15 years. I fear car manufacturers may have said they were going to be all electric in the next 10-15 years, but when horror stories of people having to buy $20k batteries, that will put a serious damper on sales. Unless car manufacturers keep that from happening, they may take it on the chin in terms of sales. Time will tell. Interesting times we live in. ... View more

I have the V6 version of the Pontiac G8 and I can tell you after having lived a lifetime in GM vehicles, they screwed the pooch when they quit making them. The best 4 door sedan GM ever made that most people don't even know about. It should have been the Impala/Bonneville/LeSabre. I'm looking for a V8 version and some people have it figured out, because they are expensive and only getting more expensive. ... View more

Great story and sounds like a good time! Thanks for sharing. ... View more

So even though a fraction of the people in the US drink the bulk of the alcohol, they want manufacturers to put tech in EVERY car that would make it hard for a drunk driver to drive his or her car. So we ALL have to pay. When is this nonsense going to stop ... View more

The electric motor is the cheap part of that conversion. A battery with any range is going to be $$$$. Throw in all the electronics? No thank you. ... View more

People are going to wish they kept their carbureted cars. I watch some of these video's on YouTube about just the keys on some of these cars and it is enough to make you sick. ... View more

Isn't it crazy to think that here we are over 100 years later an an electric car is still an electric motor and a battery. And the battery is still the weak point. Ahhh....if we had a battery that was half the size, twice the capacity and would charge in 10 minutes, the gas car would die before you got to the end of this sentence. If you have ridden in an electric car, you know what I mean. But our current battery tech, in my opinion, is going to hold back electric car sales as a primary vehicle for the foreseeable future. If for no other reason, than soon, very soon, old batteries are going to start stacking up and that is going to be a major environmental problem. I read that only 10-20% of batteries are being recycled. Who knows what is around the corner? Hopefully some of these lab batteries see the light of day. ... View more

Aging Ferrari's are going to be an interesting study in after market parts. Ferrari quits supporting the electronics on some of it's not quite so old cars. As cars get more and more electrified, we might be able to see what we are going to run into with the overwhelming amount of electrics in our more mundane vehicles. ... View more

Vinyl is awful. For some reason some GM fabric stains terribly and is extremely hard to get the stains out. That's why leather is popular. It's extremely easy to keep clean. And if you do take care of it, it is comfortable. ... View more

GM is so messed up they couldn't even do the Blazer right. I have been a GM guy all my life but sometimes I really scratch my head over what they are thinking. ... View more

The only reason I can think of is to possible give you a smaller angle of adjustment to get the ratchet into the socket and on the bolt. ... View more

Great for Tesla. Now put ANY Porsche, Chevy, Ford, Ram, Semi truck, next to ANY Tesla and put 2 families from Detroit in them and race to Florida for vacation and let me know how that works out. ... View more

I bought a 98 Honda Valkyrie a couple years ago. Out of the 4 bikes I owned previously, this one beats them all. It will probably be my last bike. I might by an additional bike, but this one will stay. I love the color scheme and it rides and performs incredibly. To me it feels like it could stand up by itself, it's that easy to handle. https://youtu.be/5SfsunzfC70 ... View more