Tyre widths, recalls & my cars - Big Car Q&A

Like many KZbin channels I have a Patreon, and a few weeks ago I asked my Patrons if they had any quick car questions that I could research and maybe answer. I got some interesting ones so I thought it would make a good video to go through and answer them.
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Why do tyre width end in a 5 for cars?
2:50 Bigger tech transitions than the EV shift?
6:28 Does a recall have to be completed in a given time?
8:38 Car quiz
11:50 My 3 car dream garage
14:28 What cars have I owned?
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[@BigCar2]

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[@adamwishneusky]

Look how early I am! 😋

[@typxxilps]

It is no longer about rules that will ban ice production cause the factories are already moving ahead. They will not produce ice cars any longer cause they have realised that the speed of progress in the battery technology is so much higher than developing costly emission cleaning tech that there will be a turning or tipping point they can not afford to miss. Who stays with fossil ice cars will be dead sooner or later except in the military and expedition vehicel, but even trucks will dy sooner or later cause the smaller the production volume of gearbox and engine gets the higher the costs of the then already outdated engines. Any clue what it costs to develope a complete new engine family like those from Mercedes ? Close to 1 billion dollar including the whole amount of changes from turbo to exhaust and manadfold incl. tools and what not for the production line. And those costs for an EV engine are what ? a tiny fraction. Having worked for decades since the mid 80 in the car industry and from the oldest manufacturer to the brands with the rings and that with horses I can only tell you that the game is long over and was already visible mid 2000s due to climechange and upcoming emission regulations. Buy a 12 cylinder as long as you can get one in mint condition and a decent one with a long lasting spare part and supply chaing cause those days are gone. AMG C 63 never happen again, except you get the badge and a 4 cylinder engine. And once the tipping point is reached then the costs for the remaining ice cars will be constantly rising due to lower volume and still high fix costs. Look into the supply chain industry: Magna has laid off 300 employess in their Cologne site due to lower demand for ice vehicles and lower production volume which they could not compensate with new ev orders cause they have not so many parts they can supply. I am not talking about Fisker cause that has been produced in austria where another 500 have been laid off or the amount of worker will be reduced over the next month by no longer prolonging contracts that had a 1 or 2 year limit. ICE is dead like hell in Europe regardless what the governments would offer cause a possible delay of 2035 to 2040 has been in discussion most recently in the EU but now the manufacturers intervened that they do not want such delay and want to shift gears and push through cause all of them have a clue that in 5 or 10 years range will no longer be an issues as the charging infrastructure. This time the manufacturer forced the EU to stay to the 2035 goal cause many of them will arrive even earlier there. Will you be able to buy another ICE GOLF ? No, there will be a 9th generation but electric only announced by the CEO during the 50th anniversary of the GOLF. The manufacturer are starting to phase out ICE models already to get space for new EV line ups. You can not build those next to each other and the previously expensive battery mess is getting now cheaper and cheaper at a much faster pace then anticipated 5 years ago. Buy a 15 kWh home storage and the german price for that is 2000€, so 90 kWh at home for 12.000€ which means a car manufacturer must get it for less than 50% of that.

[@typxxilps]

the end is the best, all these cars you had and might miss. There is a german car channel preserving all the iconic cars you mentioned your father or family once had, I mean all of them and even the AUdi 200 turbo, the Scirocco, and what not. They repair those cars and also french, italian and even russian Lada and then store them in their museum which you can visit in Dortmund, Ruhr valley a bit south of MÜNSTER, the airport. Yon can park in front, but only if you arrive in a classic car 30 years and older or a young timer which means 20 years plus. Otherwise you have to drive to the parking garage. But you can watch 4 or 5 times a week the cars they do repair and how in every details. Do you remember the OPEL / VAUXHALL OMEGA limited version, the fast production car in 1992 ? They have an OPEL LOTUS OMEGA - genuine one and I guess first hand bought. Check out the channel HALLE77 which stands for workshop77 cause the founder is born in 77 therefore loves GOLF mark I but also Fiesta Mark I but the GTI, RS and what not sporty versions. Close to 500.000 subscribers and I guess there might be an automatic translation too. If you need to fix an old german car or even Ford Taunus or most recently FORD KNUDSEN they have it done already. You have had great cars since you got your licence and what a great idea that your father had bought you a rusty crusty car with more issues than fingers can count to learn a lot of diy and help yourself. Quite unusual for that era I must admit.

[@michaelharrison1093]

Are you still living in the USA?

[@macdaniel6029]

Biggest surprise for me was when you said you moved to the US. You are propably the most british person on KZbin.

[@csours]

"Everyone knows what that acronym means, no need to define it" Reading the document years later: *ANGRY NOISES*

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

Millimeters for tire/Tyre width. And inches for wheel size. This is what has always baffled me

[@Low760]

Given the imperial system was redefined after WW2 based on the metric system, it seems like a formality?

[@RichieReportsUK]

Still happens a lot in Engineering, a mixture of Metric & English measurements used for similar items, Tyre air pressures for a good example, still use PSI, (pounds per square inch), as well as 'bar'. TV & monitor screen sizes are still stated as inches, yet the physical size of the unit as a whole will be listed in centimetres! Then there is the whole world of thread sizes & pitches!

[@drazenradosevic7467]

And tire height as percentage of tire width, just in case it was overly simplistic 🙂

[@andrewbennett2820]

Yes, i had always wondered this but i worked on RR jet engines and they are drawn in mm but have a mixture of imperial and metric threads.

[@stefanmathys3272]

Not only was the sunroof only for the back passengers, it did not open to begin with. So, it was never meant to be a sunroof, rather a skylight.

[@leskouts2]

Really enjoyed this twist to your format (but love your format). The quiz is great. More please

[@kitko33]

Japanese car makers dominating the world was a MASSIVE shift. The opened a giant tech gap between Japan and the rest of the world. In the late 1980s, Japanese cars had 4-valve per cylinder engines, independent suspension all round combined with AWD and AWS... when the Big 3 were still using ancient OHV engines, leaf springs....

[@chefchaudard3580]

In Europe, many cars had indépendant wheels and torsion bar suspensions since the seventies. Japan copied what was best on the market.

[@martinsvensson6884]

Compared to Big 3 maybe but not to Europen cars. Especially the Germans were still far ahead. Although the Japaneese narrowed the distance a bit in the late 80's and early 90's.

[@Low760]

Ohc 4 valve heads were not that new, they existed before pushrod engines in fact. But most Japanese vehicles were but 4v until the 90s, and even then the lower spec cars were still 2v ohc. Once again, not looking at the American market.

[@scott8919]

Japan be entering the future while USA brands ve trying to perfect white wall tires and wire-look hubcaps. 😂

[@DiscoFang]

*... was a MASSIVE shift... for USA.

[@klasseact6663]

I am looking forward to more videos like this!

[@BazFairbrother]

Thanks for finding the answer to my question Andy, i thought i was on the right track😁

[@VladoT]

I have driven a Renault Twingo with an insane V6 engine swap. It was terryfing and fun but unfortunately diy engine mounts broke and the engine fell to the ground destroying itself 😅

[@nadeemchaudhry6585]

Another brilliant video! Thank you.

[@harryspeakup8452]

One might also ask why it is that the world has standardised on metric for nominal tyre width (understandable IMO) but we still all have wheel rim widths in inches (expressed as J, for some reason)

[@jhutt8002]

Actually it makes sense. Otherwise french would have switched to 37 and 41 cm as everyone else would use 38 or 40 in place of 15 and 16 inch.

[@GGL171]

J is the rim profile(?? not sure it's the right word), there are( or used to be) other profiles as well, A, B, JJ etc.

[@tthbeige3332]

Citroen sold cars with 400mm diameter rims until 1956 I believe(Edit: until September 1965), don’t know when mm rims were abandoned by other manufacturers. And the width was 165 to my knowledge.

[@Finne72]

Very pleasent episode, you have good taste in cars. One of my many cars was also a MK1 Fiesta. It was a 1980 1.1 VIP Millionaire.

[@ve2vfd]

Fiesta! I had a white (and rust, looooots of rust!) 1979 Fiesta 1.6L as first car when they imported them to Canada in 78-80. I loved that car. If I were to buy an antique car it would have to be a VW T1 or T2 van or a SAAB 900 Turbo.

[@ChopChop8]

Great vid. Thanks for sharing.

[@davec8921]

Now I'm really curious about the issues you had with the Tesla 3. Maybe we could get a video about that in the future? Also would be interested in seeing more about electric convertibles in the future.

[@BigCar2]

I think it would turn into a bit of a moanfest. It's small things like the windscreen wipers. There's no stalk that after 5 years is still annoying. When you turn on self drive (which I do often) it puts the wipers into auto mode, but that's rubbish and never does the right thing. I can't play my MP3 collection - the music keeps cutting out. Their navigation system often doesn't got the optimal route. So, I'm using my phone for many of these things. I wish they'd just support Apple Carplay and be done with it.

[@tonybaker7484]

A really enjoyable video. Thanks.

[@JMJoubert]

This was good! Thank you

[@litehammer69]

Great video 👏 could definitely have watched more

[@jhutt8002]

Hmm... I was born in -92. To me the technology peaked around 2000. Windows XP was probably the first big new thing that I truly hated and wanted to fail so I could stick with good old tech. I guess that's kind of my life ever since, I have a big house in the middle of nowhere and family, and keep buying cheap old stuff to fix, so when I get home from work I can feel 20th century isn't just history fading away.

[@JJonCars]

Totally with on the VW Scirocco MK2 - it was always the car I dreamed I'd have when I was old enough to drive. Really cool car, I'd run around the playground pretending I was driving one 😅

[@christophecamus8410]

Very interesting video thanks

[@samthecar]

Very cool car histories!

[@nigelcreighton2411]

The horse vs the automobile is totally valid and the closest we have to a similar shift today.

[@RichieReportsUK]

Or the horse vs the introduction of the steam engine, there was a fear in early Victorian times that if you travelled at speeds of over 30mph you would suffocate by having all the air sucked out of your lungs, this originally made many people scared to travel on steam trains!!

[@Jester85]

Renault Twingo, parents rented one on holidays once when i was a boy and ive loved it every since, sunch a shame they never made RHD

[@RedBatteryHead]

I'm middle aged and a full battery head. So do many I know. I think it's more the mindset of people to ignore the EV. Especially since I hear a lot of the younger people with the anti FUD on EV.

[@Blackhawk-gx7hs]

The reason petrol heads like me dislike Ev’s is that they are the biggest scam on the planet currently. Building an EV and keeping it going (replacing the battery) is way worse for the planet then petrol engine cars are! On top of that what is the use of claiming to drive without pollution if the electricity you put in those Ev’s is still made by the same gas and coal plants that still mostly make the electricity today… The day i stay away from petrol it would be for something that can really help the climate like hydrogen or something as of yet unknown and new. But in the mean time the planet would be far better off if people just bought a car and drove it as long as it could instead of wanting a new damn car every 3 to 4 years just for the sake they want to have something new!!!

[@thatcheapguy525]

I drove around in a hired Mk1 Renault Twingo on holiday in 1998. absolutely loved it too and would have owned one if only they'd made a righthand drive version and imported it here in Blighty. don't get what Mazda are playing at with the MX-30. running an engine at a fixed speed (almost certainly maximum torque) makes perfect sense as a generator for fuel efficiency, the Wankel engine is very small and light BUT surely these benefits are more than negated by its inherent heavy fuel consumption, poor exhaust emissions and low life expectancy. (and) this is all from the company who found the holy grail of Internal Combustion Engines with their compression-ignition SkyActive-X petrol engine. really like the definition regarding generational techology.

[@camrsr5463]

13:54 I don't think you can say Twingo in public anymore. lol

[@chrisperyagh]

I was just going to say my Citroen CX 25 GTi Turbo 2 had Michelin TRX tyres which were 210/55 R390 which made tyre choice very limited, but then you covered that early on. I was told back in the day Avon tyres could be used in a pinch.

[@DrLoverLover]

He said it again!

[@jordylad69]

Fun video Andy, much appreciate your good work, please keep it up. I'm surprised you stumped me with the Mazda MX30 question, I thought it was pure EV. A bit embarrassing as I worked for Mazda USA for 10 or so years back in the 90s and am still close to many people there. From a fellow Brit living in California.

[@michaelharrison1093]

On the topic of air-conditioning, convertibles, and sunroofs... when you live somewhere with a mild climate a sunroof or a convertible seem like great ideas. When you live somewhere with brutally hot weather there is nothing better than a hardtop car, no sunroof and really great air-conditioning

[@lloyddarbon5034]

Actually laughed out loud at the RAC story :D

[@Enakaji]

Regarding the first topic about tiresizes for cars, the interesting thing is that some motorsport tires, like slicks or rallye tires for cars, are also sold in sizes ending in a 0 instead of a 5 for the width but not from every manufacturer. Some stick to the "rule" and sell them in sizes ending with 5 while others don't.

[@93455Driver]

The new Model 3 sounded so good, the changes to the suspension really caught my attention. Unfortunately there was the gear change on the screen and worse the crazy turn signals on the steering wheel (like on a motor bike but haptic). With all the market research and customer clinics they can do, surely they would have realized that these were a yoke steering wheel type off errors? Tesla develop the most efficient EVs, do some great innovation, but they seem to always shoot themselves in the foot with an idea that goes too far.

[@danield8528]

So, it IS okay to trade in a car for another one. Thank you Big Car for this video. Loved it!

[@joytotheworld9109]

As long as it isn't an EV, then a lot of dealers might offer you scrap value or just tell you to sell it privately. Too many used EV's with aging batteries sitting for sale for months, despite the discounting.

[@BigCar2]

Other things in my life mean car changes are on hold right now. But I'll probably get a new car later this year.

[@danield8528]

@@BigCar2 I understand that. Thank you for the video also. Keep up the great work.

[@ashleygroome1555]

Your articles are always very interesting and highly enjoyable to watch. One small thing however, when quoting power ratings for vehicles and fuel consumption it might also be useful to mention metric equivalents rather than just mpg and horsepower. This would no doubt benefit the other 6 billion or so people who live outside the United Kingdom.

[@BigCar2]

Alternate units are always in the subtitles (and I put a note in the intro to show this). If I always say the alternate units I think it bogs down the video.

[@manofthehour6856]

Fun stuff, BC!!! I have deduced you must still live in the USA as the MINI you and Missus BC are standing by has the USA size plate frame and you mention it is still in your motorpool. And I had assumed you were UK based and that the missus had moved there!!!! Its the accent and the UK rear plate mock up in the background. Very enlightening, although a little surprised that you don't have a more varied list of dream cars that do not break the paper floor of the 1970s. Well, all of us care nthusiasts can't be Jay Leno have love almost every cool and unusual car ever made. Keep the videos coming as they are always insightful and properly researched.

[@stephenschofield2836]

Bit like us Andy, hate the Tesla, can't stand getting behind the wheel of a mini (it feels like you're disconnected from the drive, imho), We roll a Volvo V60 D2 as a family car, my Betsy (personal fun/ keeper car) is a Peugeot RCZ (we call him Eric, after Cantona, another fiery little French B£$"^!d, lol) and as for the 4x4's, owned 6 Fronteras is all guises (loved the safety/ reliability) but couldn't ever get the keys from the wife because she was besotted with the driving position. Great channel mate, always enjoy your musings

[@john1703]

Making progress in a small car is all about momentum, which requires anticipation and concentration, which is rewarding and therefore fun. The best of course is a proper (BMC) Mini.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

America started having compact cars in the 60s such as the The Chevy Corvair Pontiac Tempest Oldsmobile cutlass & Jet fire/star fire and Buick with the Skylark Cadillac didn't have its first attempt at a smaller car until 1976 with the Seville and even that was 17 Ft long in comparison to a 1961 Skylark which was 15.67 Ft long then we got the Toyota Corolla for 1969 model year and US got more compact/subcompact models as the years went on such as the Chevrolet Cavalier Geo/Chevy Metro etc. metro was discontinued around the same time as the Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire were in the mid 2000s

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Your channel is excellent to learn the English language.

[@sweetcorn1968]

I had both the lego technical sets when I was younger.

[@BigCar2]

I sold my helicopter a few years ago. The one you see has been built mostly from new pieces from Lego, with some older parts I couldn't source.

[@elelegidosf9707]

15:08 "My Ford Fiesta ironically broke down in front of the RAC building". That's not ironic, Alanis. 🙃

[@BlakesPipes]

Great episode! Loved the personal information . Getting to know your presenter is so important. You must be south Jersey with the cherry hill genesis dealer? Lol I am from north jersey. I like the questions too, I got 0 right!

[@stephenholland5930]

I believe he's in Seattle.

[@robpeabo509]

An interesting and very enjoyable video. When I had kids, my choice of vehicle was Japanese all the way. The reliability was phenomenal. Now that I am on my own, it is different. I own an LR3TDV6, which I will keep till it is no longer viable to repair. As a daily driver to cart my dog around I have a Nissan sedan I bought very second hand (though mechanically sound). I also own a Suzuki VL800 motorcycle. My dream cars are a Ford Falcon V8 ute, Last of the Range Rover Classics, 1981 - 1986 W123 Mercedes sedan. and finally a 1991 - 1991 BMW 318i.

[@volvofreak86]

My 2008 XC70 had a recall on the restraint system, i think it was the buckle itself, i never got a time to bring the car in but i suspect they did it when i turned it in for a service since it has to do with the seatbelt i would've guessed that it is a big deal

[@janstrom3482]

Now I want to know more about your thoughts on the Tesla 3

[@GGL171]

For tire sizes ending with 0 for bikes, i think that's only for the road, there are 125 with Pirelli tires tor the track, there might be other funky sizes as well.

[@user-tc5wt9xv3g]

Hello Big Car, please do Toyota Aygo, Citreon C1,Peugeot 107 story, please, please

[@TheKsharm]

This would be good especially now the partnership has ended.

[@richardbrayshaw570]

Very nice bit of Big Car background! Treat yourself to a Ferrari on the 3 Car Garage Challenge. You can afford it - it's purely fictional. Cheers!

[@JunYamog]

We downsized to 3 car home of: Fun and unreliable BMW E60 M5, Hauler and off-road Toyota LC90 Prado, Practical and convenient Tesla Model Y. I guess it pretty ok but like with all things I still wish something else.

[@stealthg35infiniti94]

I enjoy the new technology as long as it reliable and not expensive to repair. There's some brands out there that will Break My Wallet after warranty is over. Hopefully the Right To Repair Law will help consumers find affordable repair centers.

[@philipmordaunt5341]

You are a talented broadcaster. The internet has changed the world for the better. You didn’t have to get a job in broadcasting before demonstrating what you can do. The ‘permissionless’ world is better

[@cbmsysmobile]

Imperial sized tyres do still exist in America ('Diameter' x 'Width' R 'Rim Diameter') in inches. Same as you can still get imperial size tyres in the UK for classic vehicles (Old Landrovers, for example). Not very common these days, even in the US

[@trwsandford]

Warning on the Morris Marina… Pianos fall on them frequently.

[@NLBassist]

few people now what like 235/65/15 means and I find it always very funny to tell: first millimeters, than a ratio, followed by inches. It doesn't make any sense,

[@DiscoFang]

Except when you understand it, and the function, it makes perfect sense.

[@UncleJoeLITE]

How about doing the next one as a premiere Andy? _First up, yeah, I never thought about that odd/even aspect thing._

[@BigCar2]

Sure, I could try that.

[@UncleJoeLITE]

@@BigCar2 👍

[@robertstevens2857]

make yourself an ev hotrod with the twingo, imagine a 110kw leaf drive unit in a twingo it would be... ludicrous :) DIY of course as it would make good videos

[@typxxilps]

3:01 - technology driven innovation Yes, of cause, but on the production site there was a big shift with 2nd revolution in the car industry released in 1990, a book, describing how the japanese were challenging the established european car manufacturers and remember all those british brands which have vanished in those years. Those were the victims and the japanese build new factories in the UK or took them over, so yes, that was a technology driven revolution and I can only recommand the book published by MIT or so by Daniel T. Jones A must read - deserves 5 stars back in the days and even nowadays cause it describes the evolution of car production till Tesla even though their big leap would be the tiny car with a complete new architecture maybe also seen before a bit by Smart producing the city coupe in Smartville, the production plant in Hambach , France.

[@michaelloach9461]

Great vid, thanks. I have an idea for a great car for you. What about an Audi S5 convertible? Its practical. It has 4 seats, big enough to carry suitcases for a holiday & if you need to carry some long length's of wood from you DIY store you can drop the roof. If you want a bit of fun, put your foot down & it will bring a smile to your face. If you want frugality, it 'will' do 36 MPG if your on a long journey & take it easy & the road tax is not too bad either. All the best.....

[@michaeltutty1540]

Not all tyres end in a 5. Avon Turbosteel tyres are available in a 230/70R15. Certain Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and Ford models used the size.

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

The now standard way of sizing tires sort of made sense to me. Until I deal with my jeep tires. 31 x 10.5 r 15. How hard is that

[@julianfoot8748]

With new technology there is always the hype cycle. Just think about Smart Phones. Huge initial rush then gradual adoption. You still have a few people with dumb mobiles, but the bulk of the market is now for smart phones. The same will happen with electric vehicles. As charging becomes easier and more general then problems will be overcome. In the early days of Petrol people had to carry fuel in Cans. The petrol infrastructure took decades to evolve.

[@RichieReportsUK]

But that is the advantage of petrol, you can carry a spare can of it in the boot, in case you happen to run out in the wrong place, but you can't carry around a spare can of electricity!!

[@julianfoot8748]

@@RichieReportsUK Actually you can. There are many supplementary battery packs on the market that can provide a recharge and you are a million times more likely to find a domestic socket to plug into than a stray can of petrol lying around. If you are dumb enough to run out of fuel in the first place that is. Let's face it the infrastructure for electricity is everywhere. You can if needed use a diesel or petrol generator if you are going to travel in the bush. The flexibility of charging is actually a huge advantage of Electric vehicles. When traveling we plug the car in to charge overnight using ordinary outdoor plugs and leave with a Full Tank in the morning. You can't do that with a petrol car, you have to find a petrol station etc...

[@verttikoo2052]

Reason for the sales going down is that they started to change prices way down. People want to see where the prices go.

[@mishalchotai4721]

Mr Big Car, my mrs has an orange mini cooper too. I enjoy it tbh. My car a Jag xe. Have you done a Jag xe ?

[@BigCar2]

Not yet, and I haven't tried one unfortunately.

[@mishalchotai4721]

@@BigCar2 be great to see a Big Car review of the XE. Shame they stopped making them now

[@peterrobey1654]

What about unleaded gas as a major change?

[@JohnCline]

Wait! What? My 2019 and 2024 Tesla Model 3s play MP3 files up to the ISO standard 320 kbps flawlessly. Using the LAME MP3 encoder you can encode up to 640 kbps but good luck finding a player. I use AAC and FLAC Lossless encoding these days. The Teslas will play 96k-24bit FLAC files flawlessly, too.

[@charade993]

Now i know

[@mikosoft]

I'd argue Ford's assembly line and electric starter were two big shifts that enabled petrol cars to overcome electric cars back at the day

[@guzziwheeler]

So the electric starter killed the electric car back in the day, so to say. Because it made the comustion engine much easyer to handle.

[@mikosoft]

@@guzziwheeler yes. At least that's how it's often quoted because electric cars didn't need to be cranked so we're more popular. Also were quieter and didn't smell. But their range was very limited and took two days to charge so they were used for running errands mostly. Once ice cars could be handled more easily long distance travel was suddenly possible.

[@ingocernohorsky]

I never knew you are in the US.

[@thomass3769]

Electric starters greatly expanded the market for combustion automobiles

[@brunovanaken5893]

Can you believe that i have the same lego sets 😊

[@pageonejournalist]

One of my cars runs 180R15 Michelin XAS tyres, they are not TRX tyres, not scooter derivatives and yes, you can still buy them new. Care to guess what car it is?

[@waldemarkreukniet4370]

A man with taste floating on the road ! Enjoy !

[@AlienLivesMatter]

VW golf 1988?

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

To be honest, I’m not too convinced that the Fisker is such a clever buy - there’s troubles in Fisker-land.

[@ColinHarvey78]

Interesting about not having another Tesla 3. I have a colleague who has one and he said exactly the same recently… he thinks it’s a great idea and concept, just not quite there yet

[@Roqedda]

Kind of sad that a car ist still in essence as simple as the early ones. Compare it to planes. THAT is an evolution. Assist-Systems for cars are still quite new and I still wait for a really working wiper^^

[@scottharvey-davies1607]

So, here is a question.... If you had to choose, would yo go MK1 Escort Mexico or RS200....... (drops the mic and discuss)

[@oliverandersson1991]

the MX-30 is such a mess that i bought a 2024 Mazda 3 automatic with the skyactiv-x engine instead, better fuel economy and less hassle.

[@macaalf8219]

It would have been interesting to include what you did not like about the tesla

[@BigCar2]

I think it would turn into a bit of a moanfest. It's small things like the windscreen wipers. There's no stalk that after 5 years is still annoying. When you turn on self drive (which I do often) it puts the wipers into auto mode, but that's rubbish and never does the right thing. I can't play my MP3 collection - the music keeps cutting out. Their navigation system often doesn't got the optimal route. So, I'm using my phone for many of these things. I wish they'd just support Apple Carplay and be done with it.

[@dekalogue]

🍿🍿🍿

[@NLBassist]

Of course many coachbuilders went on, when horses were replaced bij engines.

[@MiloG209]

Might not want to be doing to much comparison to Tesla, considering the cyber truck may be deemed unsafe for the road and severely design flawed

[@JuanAlvarez-km6dx]

Ouch! This means we don't get a new video this week? Meaning a video about any given car's history

[@BigCar2]

I'm trying something different. Have you tried my second channel (Little Car)? I've done some interesting histories there. And I dropped a new podcast today, with more information about the Rover 800.

[@Low760]

Gem-en-ei. Odd to hear it said another way.

[@barmybee61]

What was strange about the AM sunroof? Is the answer that the sunroof looks good and the rest of the car doesn't.

[@kmorton54]

I would love to own a Mercedes W210 E55

i cant believe you are a fan of electric cars ! Being a car channel i thought you was a petrol head like most of us .. 🤔

[@donswier]

Lifelong petrolhead here. I have come to love how electric motors can manage propelling cars. - Smoother than a V12 Phantom - No shifting needed - Ability to regenerate energy and simultaneously save brakes - Much cooler running ICE engines are brilliant at operating at fixed RPM and getting refueled in 2 minutes on trips (with petrol available everywhere). IMHO it's not an ideological choice. Some of us still love the sound of a silky inline 6, a roaring V8 or V12 accelerating around LeMans.

[@DiscoFang]

Sorry to break it to you, but you can be a fan of both. Unless you can explain why you can't.

@@donswier No thanks

@@DiscoFang you cant , sorry .

[@DiscoFang]

@I stand corrected. I guess some people just don’t have the brain capacity.

[@GOdelta2]

Genesis service/repairs in the US take FOREVER 😢

[@DaleSteel]

It always gets me why tyres have metric width but imperial diameter. So 255mm for 17 inch wheel. Lol

[@uncipaws7643]

And I thought bike tyres had only two numbers (like mine are 32-622).

[@jamesengland7461]

I wish that it had become industry convention to have 4 lug wheels have 4" spacing, 5 lug to have 5" spacing. and 6 lug to have 6" spacing. They're generally close to this, but just enough that it's aggravating. Why, for example, does Ford have 4x98mm, 4x100mm, and 4x101.6mm (4")? If nothing else, now that there are very few cars with spare tires, it would be convenient for there to be a generic spare in 4, 5, or 6 lug that fit everything.

[@deepblueskyshine]

Yeah, lovers of the inches use millimeters for widh and millimeter lovers use inches for diameter.

[@panosvrionis8548]

With your budget sir you can buy a gr Corolla and done 🧐🧐. Why 3?😊😊

[@Ottoplemeniti]

Big Head

[@danr1920]

Why is the rim diameter in inches?

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Must just be like aircraft altitudes still being in feet. An historical anomaly imho. It makes no sense to me.

[@chefchaudard3580]

All rims were expressed in inches all over the world. Michelin did propose some metric rims, but it did not catch up : not standard.

[@AlienLivesMatter]

Regular rim sizes are easier expressed in inches if it was all in mm it would be confusing as heck

[@DiscoFang]

Whatever the reason it's a convenient happenstance that the different units work together so well. Rolling circumference can be matched roughly by inversely matching increase or decrease in steps of change of each of the 3 numbers. Go up in one, down in another and circumference remains functionally the same.

[@Timico1000]

15:41 Maybe you should have named the channel "Great Car" instead of "Big Car". ;)

[@pdsnpsnldlqnop3330]

So no Cybertruck, Lambo and Bentley for the three car garage. Maybe you are compensated already.

[@BigCar2]

Ugh - Cybertruck? No. Lambo & Bentley wouldn't last long at the car park of my local supermarket.

[@rhys180606]

Car tyres don't or not always did finish in a 5. Bmw 3 series had 200 sections.

[@DiscoFang]

Which year and model?

[@rhys180606]

@DiscoFang going to say Late 80s 325i.

[@rob5944]

I agree the mx5 isn't powerful enough, the Twingo however has to be the worst car I've even driven, noisy slow and uncomfortable.

[@BigCar2]

Ah, I've never driven one. If I did, maybe it would shatter my dreams.

[@rob5944]

@@BigCar2 it nearly shattered my teeth! Lol. As you say, never meet you heroes. I didn't realise you actually still lived in the US!