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Every single rich douche I know drives a lifted 4x4. Every. Single. One. $50k+ 4x4s are the new Audi S4s of douchebaggery. If you worry too much about 'image' when buying a car, you'll end up just taking the bus. 'Rugged mountain men' don't have a vehicle of any kind; they have a backpack, a...

Almost all my vehicles purchases are 'sign unseen', usually because I only buy manual transmission vehicles, and local dealers rarely have a manual to test drive. And I don't want to test drive an auto and have that bias me against the other transmission option. The automotive press has never...

The Bronco is the only new 4x4 available with an automatic transfer case coupled with a manual transmission (the FJ Cruiser was the previous last to offer it, AFAIK). And it wasn't very common before that, either. The Bronco may be the last mass-produced 4x4 with an available manual...

Kia dealerships, though. Every salesperson just started that week and the parts department gets a shipment roughly every leap day. I give them credit for carbon copying Mercedes' best interiors and offering literally every automotive option ever conceived, though. The Telluride is the most...

I've had two dealers say my 7/17 reservation probably puts me on the tail end of a MY21, based on their reservation count vs. MY21 allocation. I decided to defer for a MY22 anyway, though. There will be a price increase, but I'm hoping for a Lightning Blue Badlands, body color top, or some other...

These modes are all just software, so I virtually guarantee that the aftermarket will be all over tuning them. On most cars with selectable modes (like my GTI), there is a 'custom' mode where you can set your own steering effort, throttle mapping, traction control settings, shifting (if...

Everyone is focused on the tire comparison, but I think the black sasquatch wheels look awful. They look like some Pep Boys hubcaps trying to look like alloys that someone rattle-canned black. At least the steelies on the Black Diamond look rugged (like wheels on a cop car). I think the base...

I've never read about anyone with the 2.3L that flogged it every time it was warmed up and required a walnut shell blasting. Drive like a granny, and yeah, you might have one ~$400 walnut shell blasting during your entire ownership period, which probably also included much more expensive...

And you lose like 10% of your payload, and get more weight where you least want to add more weight on a vehicle (ahead of the front axle). And it's more like a 10% cost increase if you were considering the 7MT with the 2.3L (as you should, if you have chest hair). Not to mentioned increased...

If you can live with the worst steering of any modern highway vehicle, you should jump on the massive JL discounts (which will surely get even better once Broncos supply meets demand). The other differences between the vehicles probably don't amount to anything nearly as substantive as the fact...

Other than reliability, the aftermarket pretty much lets you tune a manual however you like. I thought my GTI's 6MT was a little spongy, so I swapped in bronze end bushings ($50 and like 30 minutes to install), and voila, crisp, snappy shifts. Cable-actuated shifters have their drawbacks, but...

I was just talking to a Ford sales manager, and he said the new AMB F150s/250s rolling in have been capturing everyone's attention (staff and customers). He said they just pop in the sun. It seems to be THE signature color for Ford this year, so I doubt it vanishes immediately for MY2022.

My local dealer won't play ball, so I just switched my reservation to Stephens. I expect I'm looking at a 2022, but that's OK.

I didn't claim that relationship; I just said I'm "amazed" by folks that carry everywhere 'for protection' but drive unsafe vehicles (I know at least a dozen people like this). I carry in the wilderness (since I've encountered too many weirdos out there), but a firearm doesn't 'buy its way on'...

I have the same handgun; a marvel of packaging, but its effective range in my hands isn't much longer than a thrown rock. Since you have a 'safe' vehicle, clearly my comment wasn't aimed at you. And @Ryuk , you drive a 1200cc motorcycle, so clearly risk assessment is not a prime driver of your...

My millennial sister, her husband, and at least a quarter of their friends drive manuals. For all the same reasons they listen to vinyl and wear vintage clothes; more 'authentic', unique, etc. And it's the easiest way to avoid having freeloader friends ask to borrow your car/truck all the time.

My GTI has the same system, and I've encountered erroneous braking maybe twice in 30k miles. You just press the accelerator and the algorithm knows it messed up, and it never actually applies the brakes with any authority. You have at least a half-second between when the beep/dash warning comes...

The data do not support your argument. Cars with ACC/Front collision avoidance have a whopping 45% reduction in frequency of rear-end collisions. Surely if this tech was making people less attentive, the correlation would be in the opposite direction. Everyone thinks they are some super-driver...

The Bronco (not Tesla) might be the vehicle that convinces the legacy automakers that direct sales are better than the dealer franchise model. At this point, Ford dealers are driving away more Bronco sales than they are creating. If you could just configure your Bronco online and have it...

You can still switch dealers, and the new dealer is supposed to slot you in the queue according to your reservation time stamp (barring any of the many options that will delay your order). However, dealers have already been told their 2021 allocation, so more people switching reservations to...