Anything that makes the car overly loud or make the exhaust smell bad. Rolling coal included.

Tinting the tail lights and changing wheel camber are 2 other stupid mods.

We knew this might happen, that’s why you saw Toyota increase wages in the hopes of pacifying its workers

No way mini is #3 imao

So selling Fiats is as bad a financial decision as buying one. That’s funny

It’s a safety thing. Older 4runners were the reverse of this because they had very thin side walls and a boxy shape, so to maximize cargo space (and in the process decrease safety). All old SUVs are like this.

Now you have to fit in a crumple zone, and airbags, and noise insulation, and blind spot sensors, and additional wiring. You’ll never see a vehicle that matches the spatial efficiency of itself 20 years ago because we require too much crap to be shoved in the sidewalls.

Now we’re shoving in batteries, so it will only get worse.

VW hasn’t offered anything really interesting in a while. Apart from the Golf, everything they offer is just in a crowd of similar vehicles.

The Jetta is a car. The Atlas is like all the other vehicles in its class. The aren’t all that inspiring, or great value, or reliable. I look at every vehicle they make and it’s just “meh, that’s like every other vehicle in that segment”.

They haven’t done anything about the off road craze, not even a half assed trim. Even Honda threw a couple of skid plates on a Pilot. VW hasn’t done anything (I’ll get to that vehicle later). The Golf button fiasco is still unfixed, even though everyone hates it.

The only exception is the new VW ID Buzz. For years Mercedes has been dominating the van market selling Sprinters to be used as campers, a segment VW is legendary in. This ID Buzz should of come out years ago, they really missed out on a huge opportunity.

Also using the van to highlight VWs new EV fleet might sound like a good idea, but how well will an EV serve a market that likes adding tons of extra weight and driving far distances? Making it an EV might write it off completely to that sort of van life buyer. If it cant be used as that it might as well be a minivan disguised in a retro paint job.

Because it’s closely related to the 3rz-fe in my first car. An engine that does nothing but serve me well, and was the best possible engine to learn semi-advanced skills doing maintenance on. The 2TR is continues that legacy, so I’ll root for it.

Also it does get slightly better fuel economy than even the modern V6 GR engine.

Tesla has a policy of not signing collective bargaining agreements and says its employees have as good, or better, terms than those demanded by IF Metall.

If this was true wouldn’t Tesla be embracing them with open arms? I know the share holders would love it. Not believable at all.

As an owner of a 3rz-fe, it brings great joy to see Toyota still putting the 2.7 2TR-FE in new models (the 2TR-FE reused the block of the ancient 3RZ)

3.5 EcoBoost seems to be pretty reliable.

GM 2.7 seems to be a reliable engine.

Might not be as abusable as a Toyota