The government's New Vehicle Efficiency Standard has forced Isuzu to up it's game ... a little

It really is pretty simple - get you car serviced on time, or when it clocks the distance, whichever occurs first - but some people continue to wilfully misunderstand...

During a recent crash test, the driver's seat in the MG3 just started to snap off - the first such failure in decades of crash testing.

This basically answers every conceivable question about quality with respect to that car, and also all the questions regarding whether or not buying one is a good idea.

Fitting the genuine bullbar to your Kia Tasman seems like a no-brainer: It helps overcome one of the vehicle's main weaknesses (it looks terrible). But if you do that, some of the vehicle's advanced safety systems will cease to function ... so there's that.

The Kia Tasman has three attributes that are killing its sales:

1. It's ugly AF
2. It's got a mediocre engine
3. It's over-priced

And hence it doesn't sell. You cannot do much about 1 & 2 (OK - you could give it an 'ARB facelift' but the fact that it's not selling gives you tremendous leverage on the price - if you're brash enough to exploit it.

Hertz has started using AI scanners to detect damage to rental cars when they are returned by customers. Predictably enough, the scanners are so good that they detect damage, even if it doesn't exist - of course.

What can you do when the dealership botches your oil change? Here's a real-life example of exactly rhis cavalcade of incompetence.

In the mad rush to embrace net zero, we're failing to implement safeguards for the most basic and foreseeable catastrophes - it's just a matter of time before someone is injured - or worse.

OK - so maybe the new warranty is seven years, kind of. But there is a list of caveats. It's substantial...

After dieselgate and gassing those poor monkeys, you'd think they'd pull their heads in, but, no. Volkswagen is the same dog, only with a new trick. Hopefully it won't catch on.