Posts By: Tim Healey

By on December 31, 2020

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I don’t have much to say — you already know we’re on a light schedule until Monday. So I will keep this short.

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By on December 30, 2020

Image: Ford/YouTube

While on the subject of holiday ads, I have another beef with a different automaker than yesterday.

Today’s target: Ford.

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By on December 29, 2020

Screenshot of Mercedes ad

You’ve probably seen a certain Mercedes-Benz ad this year. Or maybe in years past – I think the ad in question ran last year, as well, and maybe even before then.

It’s a holiday ad featuring one of the brand’s luxury SUVs and advertising a winter sales event for Mercedes.

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By on December 24, 2020

The hellfire of a year that 2020 has been is almost over, and while 2021 likely won’t be a picnic — especially at first, as we wait for the pandemic to abate as vaccines are rolled out — I don’t think too many people are going to miss this year.

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By on December 24, 2020

The end of a brutal year is upon us, and I thought we could celebrate the end of this dumpster fire that is/was 2020 by having arguments about cars.

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By on December 22, 2020

The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E is finally here. We’ve even driven it.

Along with the arrival of the car comes a new online buying process, one that seems likely to spread across the Ford lineup – it should be set for use with the Bronco, as well.

It’s a process that could mostly eliminate the worst parts of dealing with the sales department at a new-car dealership.

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By on December 18, 2020

Mach-E. Image: Ford

I mentioned it before, when ripping that Ford ad that got me riled during an NFL Sunday, but I still strongly believe the Ford Mustang Mach-E shouldn’t have “Mustang” in its name.

(Yeah, it’s Mach-E week around these parts. If you couldn’t tell. More to come on the Mach-E later today or next week.)

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By on December 15, 2020

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During my brief career as a service writer, there were many aspects of the job that I found annoying, but perhaps nothing got my Irish up on a near-daily basis like the extended-warranty business.

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By on December 7, 2020

  My first car was a hand-me-down 1984 Ford Bronco II that my parents bought new. I took possession of it as a hot-to-trot teenager in 1997, happy to finally be a licensed driver and glad I was lucky enough that my parents could gift me a car, even if it was over a decade […]

By on November 25, 2020

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Yeah, it’s that time of year again. Except this year, it won’t be normal. (Read More…)

By on November 24, 2020

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It’s taken a bit longer than planned, but we have our newest news contributor all settled in and raring to go. Please Welcome Jason Sakurai to our little, weird corner of the car Internet. He’ll be our next newshound, stepping into the role Steph Willems vacated.

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By on November 20, 2020

In my mid-20s I had a boss who once said to me “We all gotta grow up sometime”. I don’t remember the specifics of why he said that, other than he wasn’t chewing me out or anything like that. I think maybe we were talking generally about post-college life and the responsibilities of adulthood. The […]

By on November 18, 2020

2022 Subaru BRZ. Image: Subaru

The new 2022 Subaru BRZ is here, and it’s …. not all that different.

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By on November 17, 2020

2022 Honda Civic Sport. Image: Honda

We told you last week that the eleventh-generation of the Honda Civic would be shown on streaming service Twitch, and lo and it behold, it was on Tuesday night.

At least in prototype form.

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By on November 17, 2020

2022 Infiniti QX55. Image: Infiniti

The flood of new-car debuts continues unabated.

Why are you seeing so much news this week? Because the LA Auto Show was supposed to have been right around this time, but as with everything else, COVID canceled it. Also, with Thanksgiving next week, automakers are trying to get news out before you spend next week eating turkey and arguing politics over Zoom.

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