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Eightsouthman: eric, I regret not having a dash cam and saving the countless racial/economic class profiling I’ve seen over the...
Nasir: Eight, sounds like a wonderful time…. like the stories my dad used to tell me…. Another thing I remember – he...
Nunzio: We should start a pool to see who can guess how long [read: short] those heavily boosted turbo-charged direct-injected li’l...
gtc: There used to be a saying “The Thin Blue Line”, but I have a better version, The Fat Blue Overcast!
mike: hey, come on now folks. these hero’s are the first line of defense against the marauding hordes of stoned guys passed out in...
gtc: I agree, and I am in no way defending the Pinto’s reputation, nor anyone elses either, lol! I’ve driven most every car...
dread pirate anonymous: I never had any trouble with any of my old Chevys overheating unless they were way low on coolant or something...
John Vancouver: all of GM’s problems… and most of America’s and all of Western Europe’s problems… not to...
mike: i cannot imagine why we allow ex military to be cops, or anyone below the age of 30… i made a radar ahead sign yesterday to...
john T Morzenti: GM products have long been “committee” cars, often sharing components from many different models. While this...
john T Morzenti: GM products have long been “committee” cars, often sharing components from many different models. While this...
Nunzio: Hey, Eric! Ha! That’s what I thought! Next, for our edification, Stevie Wonder will be giving us his review of Smith &...
gtc: Older cars & trucks have problems primarily due to lack of attention, and old age of everything. Brakes systems rot and corrode...
Eightsouthman: eric, I thought that’s what Forrest thought about a box of chocolates. But what his mama always said applies here...
Eightsouthman: eric, now the bullshit Jalopnik spews makes sense. They never mentioned the transgender motto for a pickup. They just said...
gtc: Eric, Ditto here…..Second week running that this audio won’t load and play.
Robert: As Nelson from “The Simpsons” would say, while pointing: HA HA!
MarkyMark: Too bad ol’ Sergio isn’t still around. He really flipped off the establishment with the Hellcat!
eric: Hi Eight! But that’s part of the fun of going to Taco Bell . . . you never know what you’re gonna get!
Mark3: I hate to say it but old cars are generally pretty bad. In my experience the brakes suck, the steering sucks and the reliability...
Eightsouthman: I think Taco Bell “employees” says enough. We’re not speaking of Nobel laureate’s. Wild Bill...
eric: Well-said, EWM! I’d only add one thing: AGWs cannot be “good” because theft and coercion are bad. No matter how...
tom: Eric, a tip to your readers: Every time I change the oil, I draw some brake fluid from the master cylinder. I have a large syringe...
eric: Hi Nathan, Another problem is their marketing. They assume people who buy trucks are interested in the same things people (women)...
Hans Gruber: GM builds POS politically correct garbage. My friend had a recent GM truck; the radiator had to be replaced at 60K miles. He...
eric: Hi Mark, You answered your own question…
MarkyMark: How did Barra become GM CEO? What was so special about her (besides having a vagina) that she got the top post?
Paywood: I would be ok with a 4 cylinder; as long as it was 400 cubic inches, had 4 carburetors and was cast iron!
ReadyKilowatt: Saturn: Proof that it’s hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys. Or in the case of GM,...
eric: Preach it, X! Inside baseball: I have long-time friends who used to work in executive-level positions for GM… pre-Barra. They...
eric: Hi Nunz, If I recall correctly, Nader didn’t even have a driver’s license when he shystered the Corvair…
eric: Hi Anonymous, I don’t go out of my way to avoid offending anyone. How people feel about what I write – or say –...
Anonymous: ^ That’s me reef commenting above. Haven’t got this figured out completely yet.
Anonymous: I agree that this is not a racism issue. Your analysis is entirely correct and well written. Having said that, I think you go...
Aye Jay: Get Woke Go Broke… The Best a Ma’am Can Get!!!
BrentP: Note the Maverick in the video. Shown as the still before hitting play too. Looks like it’s probably a ’76....
Nunzio: Does Ralph still not own a car? There’s nothing like car advice from a guy who doesn’t even own one! (I was gonna buy...
Nunzio: Exactly 8. [Needs more blahblahblah not to be spam -Turdpress]
gtc: God, I hated that song…….specificall y meant for the American Retard. All it makes me think of is the film Wag the Dog....
X: There’s a pretty simple explanation for all of this: the f–ing GOVERNMENT. GM does NOT care about making money. Why should...
Eightsouthman: That’s right….and you owe your lack of health to the big corporations. After all, what would this country be...
Eightsouthman: Why are you pretending to be me? Those are both my lines, just hadn’t said them yet.
Eightsouthman: I’d like to take him with a bag of salt in a smoker. The sumbitch picked on a perfectly good car not knowing shit...
Nathan Hail: Funny- funny haha, not funny queer- that they begged for the “right” to give their names and addresses to the...
Tuanorea: Nunzio, “funny how old Ralph Nader” Why do you hate on old Ralphie? Personally I’ve always taken him with a grain of salt. He...
ken: Eric,,,, I can’t seem to get your audio to play… It says “Loading” and that’s it. The play button...
ReadyKilowatt: They’re assuming their existing customers aren’t going to change. Just like when everyone kept buying junk...
Nathan Hail: Bill Clinton never forgot about PUSSY anything… Back to subject…Chickenshits On Parade !
Nathan Hail: But…but…but trading customers could make sense,,,let’s see we’ll get <3% of the public...
ReadyKilowatt: But Amy without the ads blasting at the pump how will you possibly know about all the corn-sugar infused treats available...
Shoal Creek: If possible, just restore your current truck. It will be cheaper than a newer one and, if you fix the killer dowel pin...
Bill in NC: Smart EVs were a great money maker for my used car salesman BIL. He’d buy them cheap used & then sell them to...
Eightsouthman: Shotgun, it is to some extent. But Brent, whether he wants to admit it or not…and I think he just did. He does want...
Shotgun Chuck: To you, that’s sarcasm.
Eightsouthman: Muggles, the younger crowd don’t understand the “slow hand”. Conway said it right. Back in my...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, how many decades do you reckon it takes to make 100,000 Lambos?
Eightsouthman: Nunz, how many decades do you reckon it takes to make 100,000 Lambos?
Crusty Old TV Tech: GM started to lose the Pickup Wars when they took the hot selling S-series from an S-series size and real truck...
EWM: “The whole good cop/bad cop question can be disposed of much more decisively. We need not enumerate what proportion of cops...
Eightsouthman: Not necessarily. That one in 76 was squashed by that black and white Fury and ruined in the front on the front of that...
Eightsouthman: Let’s see, is that spelled “menimalist”? When was the last time you heard a man say “Oh, that...
Brandonjin: Third world socialists on our welfare system is our strength. Pedophile rights are our highest value.
Nunzio: Yeah, 8, funny how old Ralph Nader and the other Marxist ‘consumer asshokits” don’t say a word about the...
Delvin: Levi’s are great, I wear the same pair 5 days a week at work and they last about a year. The secret is not drying them in a...
Devin Stone: @EricPeters this piece really hits home, after I discovered the joys of motorcycling at 40 years old – it forces you...
Nasir: Affirmative action engine…. Brilliant term to describe these tiny engines found in bigger and (and pricier) cars!!
Mark in BC: They put the parasitic AGW on “paid administrative leave”…in other words, bonus vacation. And they wonder...
ken: Most of the large and many small companies have been politicized. They prefer virtual selling over product selling and most in upper...
MikePizzo: Yep. Levis…Gillette….an d now GM. They each hit their point of decline. They can only rest on their laurels for so...
gtc: I looked into the Pinto lethality stats once or twice, and both time found that it was one of the safest cars per 100,00 units sold,...
Mooeing: The 4 cylinder is a huge problem and the ugly grill.
Eightsouthman: Then there’s the fact that the Pinto was not the most dangerous car made even though it could and did toast some...
Roscoe: The last time we had execs out to our Austin facility for a demo, the rental car counters at ABIA were upgrading mid size...
Eightsouthman: Just had a article from Jalopnik come up on my phone…..and I don’t know why, don’t read the rag. They...
brazos_bend: Wrangler apparently paired with some thug guy who sings that old town road with Billy Ray Illuminati. I’ll wear them...
brazos_bend: As a bowtie/LS fan, looks like its NNBS and crate engines till i die. The New mid engine corvette is going to be PC ready...
Nunzio: We’re already halfway there, GTC- half the people you see these days already look like blobs….
Nunzio: Hell with the cars! Bob, how do you like Brazil? As a future expat myself, Brazil has nopt been on my radar, as it always seemed...
Muggles: “Poke and slam?” These guys probably do that with other activities…
Nunzio: Ins. co.s can’t issue, brand, nor cancel titles…..only the god-like state can- the ins. co. just reports the info to...
Muggles: Yes, this VR stuff inside cars would be very strange. Or as a substitute for actual driving. But for people who live in large...
BrentP: What about my emotional need to go about 100-120mph on the interstates?
BrentP: No. I think the video of a cop executing a white teenager for verbally challenging authority would have ended the myth but it did...
Bill Meyer: And I’m proud to beeeeee an Americannnnnnnnnn, where at least I know I’m Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
BrentP: So 6 months and $30,000 to repair.
MarkyMark: I remember when Levi Strauss started focusing on this crap rather than making good jeans; it was at that point Levis went to...
Bostwick9: The false promise of “diversity”. The individual has always been our strength.
Doug-the-Bug: To see what new cars are really worth watch the YouTube video about BMW recycling cars. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
BrentP: “But they need men. ” But thanks to government only collectively, not individually. Today wealth is transferred...
eric: Hi Laura, They see us as a captive audience – which we are, for as long as it takes to fill up. But even though it’s...
AljerHyss: That Rube Goldberg tailgate we’ve all seen with the “hey hey hey, goodbye” music playing….I was...
gtc: The best Chevy Nova I had was a 1975 Nova-Custom 4dr with 2bbl 262 V-8 and front disc brakes. That ran way better than the crappy,...
BrentP: As to the problem, people buy salvage cars out of state all the time. They take it through their process to get the car titled in...
gtc: Yeah, the “Total Recall” virtual vacation doesn’t sound so “science fiction” anymore, does it? in...
BrentP: Grey market cars are cars imported privately when new. VIN swapping is a deception a fraud against the person it is sold to...
Nunzio: Thing is, Moo; switched VINs are easy to spot- ‘specially if someone’s looking. You willing to risk imprisonment and...
bluegrey6124: As “Eightsouthman” said, we live in a country where if someone simply doesn’t like you for whatever...
laura ann: Amy& Eric Peters: what is it with these gas station speakers blasting news and ads 24/7, or asking Q if u need car washed...
bluegrey6124: The way things are headed, it’s only a matter of time until kid’s going outside PERIOD becomes outlawed. Just...
Mooeing: All this classic talk is wanting me to get something with a carburetor. I still want disc and hydraulic brakes though.

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