These Are The Features You Want on Your Next Car

by Tim Healey

Published: August 9th, 2024

these are the features you want on your next car

It's Friday, so it must be podcast time!

That's right, it is.

We talk with Robby DeGraff from AutoPacific about the features new-car buyers want, and Matthew Guy and I discuss the torque wrenches we use. I then evaluate some made-up NASCAR mid-season awards -- Mr. Guy was unavailable for NASCAR chat this week.

We thank Robby DeGraff, Matthew Guy, and Matt Posky for editing. Most of all, we thank you for listening. Find us wherever you get your podcasts or click here to find us and we'll see you next time.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Carson D on Aug 12, 2024
Port fuel injection and a manual transmission are the most important features I'm looking for.

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ToolGuy on Aug 15, 2024
I never bag my grass but I mowed over at a rental (not mine) today and bagged the grass (put the clippings on a section where we are planting new grass) and it extended the batteries by a surprising amount. (In case you want to lower your impact on the strained electrical grid.) Rain is forecast for the next couple of days so it was time to mow, which means TTAC Podcast time. Hopefully the grass clippings will capture some of the moisture and hold it longer -- someone else wanted to put down hay but I think she means straw. Put down hay and you get hay, is what I've been told. The clippings are green which starts the illusion of 'lawn' in that area. Does a clicker torque wrench really stop transferring torque when it clicks, or does the human have to be clued in enough to stop applying torquelages? For a small parking area, the professionals recommended crusher run plus 3/4" limestone, but after seeing how the materials were packing down in front of the bins at the gravel supplier, I am leaning toward quarter down and then 1/2" limestone (there is a pre-existing 'base' already in place). I probably shouldn't be allowed to do science on my own.

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