SUPER MEH!! Just another Hollyweird Crapmobile, a perverted cartoon of a vehicle, that shows us nothing about design, just more CG set decorating! Leave this for the kiddies and lonely guys, already. ... View more

Not true! It worked for many years, making GM the largest auto company. That overwhelmed all of the smaller competition, unable to compete monetarily or production-wise. Read some history from Sloan on... Brand overlap and downsizing confused everything, and there was no vision on what to do. ... View more

AND the media and stock market speculators, with a woman running things! Optics are everything, but she can't fix the culture. Lutz barely made a dent! ... View more

You seldom EVER saw a broke supplier to the autos. Purchasing beating them down just shifted the profits. IF purchasing could be counted on to not get bribed, they tried hard, but were at best partially successful... ... View more

The real problem was GM simply had far too many people and redundancy. Unlike Ford and especially Chrysler, the more people, the more "rock throwers" jockeying for power and influence. When you are the big dog for years, the arrogance it instigates, clouds common sense and promote internal civil wars. It it STILL that way today, with only 4 brands, but still half as many people and more, compared to any competition. FYI, the staffs at GM was 2-3X as many as at Ford, and probably 5X as many as Chrysler! Poor AMC had barely enough to do the job. If anyone screwed up, you were in a world of hurt. ... View more

meh. ... View more

More German-VW arrogance towards the consumer... No surprise here. Instead, get a Chrysler with stow in the floor seating & hybrid. Looks better, too! ... View more

Easy! Because it is only a Mustang!!! 🙂 ... View more

THAT has never been a "bonus". Any competently built motor is pretty clean. More than all of the diesels out there! ... View more

A great improvement almost! When the pencil necks do this, iot is not a win! "Any replicas made and sold must adhere to modern emissions standards, according to NHTSA. Additionally, all low-volume manufacturers must register with NHTSA, EPA, and CARB before selling vehicles." So much for crate motors or independently built ones... Now they also have YOUR number and can track you anytime, anywhere. ... View more

Oh boy we can have anything old up to 325 but the eco-nazis won by requiring meeting current emissions standards! The retarded bureaucratic mindset wins again!! ... View more

Can't destroy enough Accords or Camrys... 🙂 ... View more

Like the Olympics? Hah!! ... View more

WORST year ever for commercials, especially vehicles! Only exceeded by the most cliched and boring halftime show!!! ... View more

WHAT CAMERA ICON??? ... View more

We saw the collection of a man on a hilltop in Beverly Hills in 1997. He was a Zagato collector, preferring only the ones with the double bubble roof. He even had the wood body buck hammer form for the Aston! He even snuck in a Foose designed rod. Never knew much about this builder, except for R&T snippets, never full features. ... View more

The trouble with most Americans that drive the SUV dujours, is that they are NOT sports cars, even with 4wd! Great traction and running fast is only good IF you can also stop. See far too many that miss that physics concept! ... View more

Oh yeah, needs a battery, too! So many of the comments here are from these type of people, that have little imagination and likely less experience other than watching MT TV. ... View more

Really? Jay has good PR, but is far from an expert. Even that Carini guy or the Pringle guy are far from experts despite the hype. So do tell, what have you restored? Did you sell it or keep it? People are paying heavy 6 figures to build cars that are out of their weight class. So? ... View more

Really?? It is a dam car, albeit somewhat rare. When I see some stupid Mustang going for $300k on Mecom, and workaday Vettes hitting $75-$100k why not? A '41 Packard limo, a 100 pt. old restoration went for only $75k, who's to say what's blasphemous? Arguably this is much more a seldom to be found artifact, compared to '60s anything. This all sounds like the old restorer epithet about those lousy hot rodders, butchering up their beloved Models As and 32 Fords. So how did THAT work out? ... View more

I liked the X19, but heard that the X120 was coming, held off. Too bad the X120 became the unobtainable Lancia Stratos. Far more attitude and sex appeal. Never looked at a Fiat again, except for a '36 NSU Fiat 500 and a '47 Simca Cinq 500 as hot rod projects... ... View more

OR Beanie Babies, Pet Rocks, and it's ilk! ... View more

Too bad Hot Wheels are cartoon cars. Matchbox at least tried to make them realistic... I don't understand the fascination with the excessive marketing and production, over this quality of a collectible. Sort of like the Beanie Babies... ... View more

The Utility companies already are advertising their EV charging rate costs. Think they will stay that low? Much bigger problem are state gas taxes that pay for road infrastructure based on fuel sales. Don't forget the annual registration fees based on vehicle weight> then value, Service costs? Vehicle mfg. cost vs ICE? much simpler and cheaper, but cost more because "new" tech! If vehicles don't need typical regular serving every 10k or less miles, what will dealers do? Charge double for what service they do, or cut the pay and training of mechanics? Just askin' !!! ... View more

The ONLY reason to buy a pickup is to haul manure! Wouldn't want to stink up your cute ute or big ol' van! ... View more

This survey only confirms the posing by buyers of trucks and is identical to one done for Jeep for the Wrangler program. Only serious, hard-core people use them as capable. The rest are just pretenders! ... View more

In the Tom Gale Golden Era of Design ca. 1987 or so, they had a Dakota pickup concept called Rambo, that had the back of the bed folding up, to make a larger extended bed. Nothing new here, move along... ... View more

GM is still WAY too large to justify their products. At least Ford is trying to re-establish the mid-size truck niche. Their Transit vans have great potential if priced and marketed right. DC/FCA/PC is going to be competitive, but as they well know if you don't come out on the front of the wave, you are an also-ran. ... View more

Remember that the Great Recession was caused by the Federal mis-management of insurance and mortgage paper. THAT, and their stupid car czar, killing Pontiac for Buick, Saturn and Chrysler, then refusing to loan money unless they could control the car companies. Their ignorance and malfeasance caused Americans to lose BILLIONS of $! ... View more

Until China extorts more money for raw materials, batteries, and chips! ... View more

This problem is especially true for the used, abused, and rode hard economy cars that were run into the ground. We are talking about Gremlins, Pintos, and even the '89-'96 Spirit Acclaims. IO have a rust-free left rear door I can't give away, plus a nice grey interior with the optional split, fold-down rear seat, 4 door panels and more. Just want them to go to someone that cares, rather than pitching in the trash... ... View more

In 1988, Chrysler became the first United States automaker to fit a driver-side airbag as standard equipment, which was offered in six different models. The following year, Chrysler became the first US auto manufacturer to offer driver-side airbags in all its new passenger models. (per Wiki) ALL firsts are relative! ... View more

Even the utilities and car companies are encouraging "green" alternatives to their business. All in the name of global weather warming. The chutzpah that cars and man can really effect that much change, is the religion of the control freaks. Maybe 5 billion more souls than in 1900, can generate more CO2 and methane, but short of a WWIII, there is nothing we can really do about it. The arrogance that we an fix it on our end of the Titanic, is the ultimate big lie. ... View more

Let's Go Apple anything!!! 🙂 ... View more

When publishers ran away from magazines for the internet, a lot of knowledge died. Problem with magazines was always in finding information in a collection of them. Never really had a good index system, though a couple people tried. No way to search even now. Back up the shredder! Libraries do NOT want any automotive paper, magazines, or books! Younger generations don't know or care about it. You cannot even give away a set of Automobile Quarterlies, Car Styling, Hot Rod, Rod Action, or even Street Rodder. I have a large collection of concept car books I can sell for #1, even though I paid $25 -100. Museums don't have the money for them and will run surplus sales. They will never pay for anything. The few automotive libraries, including the Detroit one, regularly toss out or sell PR kits and brochures, never mind internal publications of the car companies. They are only open by appt, despite having a $1M endowment. Will only hire a masters degreed union librarian. Really sad state of affairs. Might have to call "Got Junk" for final disposal. Even swqap meets, Marketplace, or estate sales are useless! ... View more

Just remember, there are a lot of people that have trouble affording used cars now. EVs will NOT be better or more affordable for them. In many urban areas, parking is at a premium and you can't afford multiple cars. Chicago has areas that people are happy to take out a mortgage for a garage! ... View more

Can you say XL pipeline to Alberta? How about an energy EXPORTER? How about little inflation and $2 gas? Put the bong down... ... View more

You DO understand that the only reason gas is that expensive, is because they tax the daylight out of it! Prior to Fake Energy Crisis I, a barrel of light crude was under $3. A barrel makes over 50 gallons of gasoline. Cars are already 99% clean. Never mind CO2, which is a bureaucratic job preservation scam, not a pollutant we need to worry about. And fake CAFE mileage has never been higher, but that is still too hard to control the peons. ... View more

Well, this is all brought to you by those "progressive" folks that know better than you, what is good for the country, the world, and YOU! Controlling the poplace has been the goal, since the start. It worked so well in the Soviet Union and has in China. It makes it so much easier to make everyone financially equal, except the celebrity/political/elites. They always knew they were better! ... View more

Detroit had the largest club in the country due to all of the war manufacturing that went on here. They built twin tracks in 1941, for the AMRCA nationals. The racers I spoke with, never called them spindizzy anything. They were always "race cars". That was a media term, sometimes from the West Coast. BTW, anything over 65-70mph and the cars were a blur, except on the far side of the track from you! Glenn Fairabend, of Fairabend Engineering in Detroit, had fuel used by the model airplane guys analyzed and found out the chemical composition. He then began selling his own mixes of various strength nitro fuels, along with in 1948, rebuilding Dooling Arrows with the best parts and their tuning, guaranteed to run 130mph. Big cars were the equivalent of today's quarter scale RC cars in costs, just to get in- NOT be competitive.Korean War, material shortages, costs and limited track availability, along with raising post WWII families and buying homes all contributed to the demise. These and the fastest guys were more often machinists by trade, or knew some one who was. ... View more

MEH! ... View more

I like the first couple of icy snows. The Natural Selection Process removes the worst drivers for a while! Proper vehicle control for the conditions or events is all important. Not overdriving for the conditions because you have AWD, 4WD, or the latest Blizardmatic tires is the un-common sense part of the equation. With luck, it goes back to Natural Selection... ... View more

But everyone deserves $15/hour to start, flipping burgers to be able to live decently. Nice thought, but starter jobs are just that! If you want a career anywhere, you need to start at the bottom, Staying at the bottom is NOT a career. When dealers charge $125-150 per hour, while the techs are lucky to get $25, something is wrong. You never see poor dealers, just squeaking to get by. Most are millionaires. Since techs make the dealer a lot of money, one would think they would treat them better than sales and service people. Far too many of a certain political persuasion want 60% of the residents to have at least a 2 year degree, it doesn't bode well for any trades jobs. In schools where they still have shop classes, less than half of their students, have any interest in manual labor. ... View more

You are very lucky to recover 50% of the original cost, now. Especially the Danbury and Franklin Mint, or GMP race cars. Go to any retirement area in the South to a local flea market or swap meet and see. Everybody that wanted one got one, or are just waiting for giveaway prices... ... View more

RE: car colors. Dealers have to sell what they stock. So people are too dumb to realize you can actually order a vehicle the way and color YOU want. Don't buy off the rack! In harder economic times, colors tend get very conservative and boring. In better, more optimistic times, colors get more exuberant. The car companies all have department of very talented people, that determine what colors are trending and which look the best on a vehicle, for a particular market demographic. Dealers will seldom take a chance on colors, lest they get stuck with something unpopular. ... View more

He certainly wrote well about something that is a perverted aberration, of no social value, to car culture or society, ever. It is NOT at all like flamethrowers, or street racing. It has nothing to do with being open-minded. Culture is far too kind of a term for this. Promoting, glorifying, or admiring, a drug-fueled, gang activity, is not a culture, people need or want. Making it an "outlaw" thing does not make it equal to anything, in the car culture past! ... View more

Sorry, NO. Loud crappy "music", making your heart beat in time, is NOT and never will be like hot rodding, of any time. We used to worry about excessive noise tickets with crappy mufflers. When they stopped enforcing the laws, all the kids that grew up with 20 baseball cards in their bicycle spokes got stupid and left all their mufflers off. They are the ones driving around a show rapping their pipes to impress no one! ... View more

Because we ran out of electricity, batteries, wind, & sunlight!!! ... View more

More than the VW, the PT Cruiser had a huge following, was very successful until the DC execs couldn't figure out an encore! The occupant packaging was superior in class and offered an alternative to the silly CUV wanna-bes. I'm sorry, but it was NOT true that the LX platform owed its roots to Mercedes! The LH RWD was the genesis of the line. The 300 came from that start and the 4 subsequent variants. Sadly, ALL of the variants ae so long in the tooth that I fear that the French will kill what has made everyone tons of money by not updating the platform. And I do NOT mean electric anything, either! When there are winds, storms, hurricanes, brushfires and they shut off electric power to large sw2aths of the population, you EV will be a boat anchor at best! ... View more

MEH. Every comparison to a Jeep is "comparable" to, but not better. Designed for boulevardier wanna-bes. Yes, you can go off road, mostly. I don't see this being any more successful than Bronco 1. ... View more