Daily Podcast: The Future, By Prius Engagement
And so it continues: the debate about the Toyota Prius as a fuel saver/economy car/green badge of honor/etc. over on Captain Mike's review. Sammy Hagar's off…
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Daily Podcast: Endless Summer
The problems at Chrysler are immense: lackluster products, development cutbacks, a hugely bloated dealer network, cash flow issues, you name it. And don't fo…
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Daily Podcast: Justin Time
Justin's got a job. A real job. Of course, TTAC's Managing Editor and myself excepted, everyone who writes for this website's got a real job. But props to Ju…
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Daily Podcast: Yesterday's Podcast Today
Sometimes I am astounded by how much content we generate on this site. Astounded in the sense of blurred vision, caffeine jitters and Daaaaaaddddyyyyyyy! Com…
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Daily Podcast: Porsche Watches
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: The Importance of Being Earnest
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: F-R-E-E That Spells Free
Sorry about that. But I spent a good part of today listening to two of my young daughters singing songs carefully selected to rattle around my brain like a m…
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Daily Podcast: New Train
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: Presented by… Me
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: Original Content
TTAC is a content machine. Our team of writers is as prolific as it is talented. Our commentators are the autoblogosphere's Best and Brightest, and they'…
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Daily Podcast: All Change
TTAC's Jonny Lieberman and Robert Farago discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Is Detroit All Martha Stewarted Out With No Place to Go?
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: America Eats Its Young
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Has TTAC Jumped the Shark?
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Neil's Strong Arm
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Regular Readers of This Site…
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Justin Time?
Or not, in this case. Sorry guy, I got back from Beantown kinda late and I sent you an email and you weren't in and Jonny was hot to trot so… we threw…
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Daily Podcast: BMW Hearts TTAC. For Now. We Think.
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: A Bad Reflection on Us?
As you know, TTAC has a simple posting policy: no flaming the website, it's authors or fellow commentators. As some commentators have pointed out, the poli…
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Daily Podcast: Tiswas Can't Come Soon Enough
First of all, I apologize again for the broken comments function. As a survivor of the early PC, I know the agony of dysfunctional if not downright evil comp…
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Daily Podcast: New York Auto Show or Bust
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast Pt. 2: Lieberman Wants a Faster Aston
Well, who doesn't? But Jonny's willingness to accept a Mercedes-engined Aston Martin highlights an important trend in upmarket automotive marketing: the end…
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Daily Podcast: Join The Brand
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: Will Luxury Car Sales Suck?
Rising U.S. gas prices and the American mortgage meltdown has hit sales of new vehicles hard. In terms of the product mix, a lot of ink has been expended on…
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Daily Podcast: The Appearance of Fairness
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: You Know in All This Excitement
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: Car Talk
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: We're An American Brand
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: Are We Not Carmakers?
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: GM's Nickel
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Failing Upwards
Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast Pt. 2: Jason Vines Edition
TTAC's Robert Farago and Compuware's Jason Vines discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: The Weakest Link
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Diss Claimer
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: The Ice Age Cometh
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Automotive News
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Press Cars
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: The Cadillac of Podcasts?
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Turn and Face the Strange
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: TTAC and Brock Yates Part Company
TTAC and Brock Yates part company
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Daily Podcast: Bob Lutz Challenges Drivers to Outrun the Police
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Toyota Steps Up
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Britney Spears is a Danger to Dogs
TTAC;s Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: Can NBC Top Top Gear?
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's car news.
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Daily Podcast: The Car In Front is a Toyota
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's events.
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Daily Podcast: What Would Rasputin Drive?
TTAC's daily roundup of automotive news
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Daily Podcast: In Praise of Bob Lutz
TTAC loves GM Car Czar Maximum Bob Lutz
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Daily Podcast: Berkowitz is Back And Detroit Is Mad
TTAC commentators Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz diss-cus Detroit
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Daily Podcast: RF Drops the F-Bomb
Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz schmooze about cars. Again.
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TTAC Daily Podcast: Yesterday's Podcast Today
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz schmooze about cars.
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Daily Podcast: Spineless Bastards
Underneath the latest GM Death Watch, a kvetch of commentators are hashing-out an old argument: why doesn't Ford bring its Euro-Focus to America? As KatiePuc…
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Daily Podcast: TTAC Party in West Palm Beach?
First Samir Syed reminded me that the New York Auto Show is a crashing– I mean, static bore. Then I looked out my garret window and saw the dirty snow…
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Daily Podcast: TTAC Party at New York Auto Show?
It is with great trepidation that I raise this possibility. I remember my first foray into bridging the gap between Internet postings and FTF. I was writing…
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Daily Podcast: Detroit Auto Show Grants TTAC Two Press Passes
Hunter Thompson and Ernest Hemingway are my greatest literary influences. The former taught me that writing is important. The latter taught me to use as few…
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Daily Podcast: Save Enough Money And…
you'll go broke. This was my father's admonition to my mother whenever she returned from the sales, triumphantly proclaiming she'd saved vast quantities of c…
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Daily Podcast: No More Mr. Nicely Nicely?
I'm a big fan of Autoblog. While there are some who might suggest that there's a good reason that re-writing (or republishing) press releases is a lost art f…
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Daily Podcast: Safety First
AdAge reports "supermodel" Ganna Makeeva is suing Leo Burnett for negligence. Apparently, whilst shooting a superbowl ad for Cadillac back in '05, Ms. Makeev…
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Daily Podcast: The Phoney War
Well, I've sent it off: my email to the Detroit Auto Dealers Association. I've politely requested that their Credentials Committee reconsider their decision…
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  • ToolGuy First picture: I realize that opinions vary on the height of modern trucks, but that entry door on the building is 80 inches tall and hits just below the headlights. Does anyone really believe this is reasonable?Second picture: I do not believe that is a good parking spot to be able to access the bed storage. More specifically, how do you plan to unload topsoil with the truck parked like that? Maybe you kids are taller than me.
  • ToolGuy The other day I attempted to check the engine oil in one of my old embarrassing vehicles and I guess the red shop towel I used wasn't genuine Snap-on (lots of counterfeits floating around) plus my driveway isn't completely level and long story short, the engine seized 3 minutes later.No more used cars for me, and nothing but dealer service from here on in (the journalists were right).
  • Doughboy Wow, Merc knocks it out of the park with their naming convention… again. /s
  • Doughboy I’ve seen car bras before, but never car beards. ZZ Top would be proud.
  • Bkojote Allright, actual person who knows trucks here, the article gets it a bit wrong.First off, the Maverick is not at all comparable to a Tacoma just because they're both Hybrids. Or lemme be blunt, the butch-est non-hybrid Maverick Tremor is suitable for 2/10 difficulty trails, a Trailhunter is for about 5/10 or maybe 6/10, just about the upper end of any stock vehicle you're buying from the factory. Aside from a Sasquatch Bronco or Rubicon Jeep Wrangler you're looking at something you're towing back if you want more capability (or perhaps something you /wish/ you were towing back.)Now, where the real world difference should play out is on the trail, where a lot of low speed crawling usually saps efficiency, especially when loaded to the gills. Real world MPG from a 4Runner is about 12-13mpg, So if this loaded-with-overlander-catalog Trailhunter is still pulling in the 20's - or even 18-19, that's a massive improvement.