This is the Memorial Day weekend, when we commemorate our fallen heroes and raise our cancer risk by burning chopped beef. Listening to the media, it looks and sounds like the fallen heroes of the year are not the ones who gave and give their lives in ceaseless wars, but the auto industry. It didn’t quite die. It was medevaced in a TARP and helped by the PTFOA to get over its PTSD.
Instead of thanking the nation’s heroes (he did so in an afterthought, asking for “single acts of kindness”) VP Biden thanked himself: (Read More…)
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philipbarrett - which is one of the reasons I’m still driving my ’03
highdesertcat - Maybe they just had a bad batch of 2012s. Something similar happened to the Cruze belonging to a friend of my grand daughter. That Cruze only...
DenverMike - I guess the issue here is the “low-speed” (bump?) that leads to fiery death. It should take major impact to cause any other (including the...
carguy - +1: The E46 and the E90/92 without iDrive are some of the most intuitive and clean designs in the business.
jmo - “I don’t like the idea of too much of a car’s functionality depending on high-level software which is certain to contain a number of bugs; it’s only a matter...
carguy - I have to confess that after spending 10 years decrying it as the end of civilization, BMW iDrive is now my favorite car/tech interface. For domestics, UConnect...
LBJs Love Child - You lost me at “Consumer Reports.”
bloodnok - sorry doug but myford touch is an abortion that should never have been installed in any automobile, especially mine. 9 months now i’ve owned a focus st...
stephen - Still my fav car is the Olds Cutlass Supreme. Possibly because my folks bought the convertible version in 72-and the 4 barrel carb because my dad...
DownEaster - Too bad to see the last Oldsmobile sold off. Should be in a museum. Back in the late 1970s and 1980s Olds was the car to have. Remember all the...