Recent content by blackeneth

There appears to be a segment of wealthy car buyers who get bored quickly with their cars and then move on to the next thing. Repeat. Which is still a better group than the wealthy hyper car buyers who promptly crash them trying to show off. They are like Mustang buyers, but with a lot more money.

Reading and watching reviews of the 5BW, the occasional reviewer would mention the “stiff clutch” due to the “big clutch spring” (cut to picture), and a few would complain of “my sore left leg” after a day of driving. Now owning a 5BW, I can ask: what were they talking about? It’s just like...

Me too. It seems to get almost all the way through the update and fail at the very end.

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I have one I can sell you. I ordered it in anticipation of having to replace mine, but I didn’t.

That’s the color I wanted, but, alas, they discontinued it for 2025.

Manual. After 20 years of family cars with an automatic, well, the kids are grown up now and have their own cars. So I can get a fun car. Prior to the family cars, I had driven manual transmissions — the last being a 1996 Pontiac Trans Am. So I was looking for a V8 with a manual transmission...

Top speed 80 mph. But that just gives you more time to admire the suspension and ride quality.

… Hell yes it has a great suspension! I recently took a few long road trips. First from Golden CO to Phoenix in a Ford Expedition: rattle, bounce, bounce ow. Second from Los Angeles to Phoenix in a Chevy Tahoe … this was better, but still kinda harsh. Then I took a roadtrip in my 2025 CT5-V...

Secret Service agents will learn stick-shift driving on new GM training fleet

Eternal vigilance is likely required here. That is such a great car that they’ll have to be pried from the cold, dead hands of the current owners.

Yes you can. I've done it with both GM and Ford. The Finance department of the dealership is a profit center, and markups on the warranties vary by dealership. Some clever dealers in the country offer to sell them nationwide at low markups. Why do they do this? They are getting low effort...

TODD SUTHERLAND Finance Director MacMulkin Chevrolet (https://www.macmulkin.net/about-us/staff/ ) Nashua, NH (603) 888-1121 todds@thompsonauto.net Bought my extended warranty from him. Don’t recall at the moment how much it was. Anyhow, email him your VIN and mileage and ask for the price schedule.

Has line lock always been a thing? I had always assumed (having never done one myself) the tire burnouts were just accomplished by excessive throttle and torque. Since you’re solving mysteries for me, why are there so many videos of mustangs taking off and veering to the side and crashing?

GM has a great (and surprisingly inexpensive) camera system for their cars. The 360 view is outstanding. I also use the side camera view to avoid scraping on the side of my somewhat narrow garage opening.