Stuff We Use: Impact Wrenches

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.


There are a number of names for this tool depending on to whom one speaks – impact wrench, torque gun, faster blaster – but despite that, there is one title on which just about everyone will agree: incredibly useful.

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  • Tassos 42 k is indeed steep, even in worthless 2024 Cackling Kamala dollars. You omit the most important number, what is the BASE price of this hybrid? if $32k, it's a buy, for those who need this type of vehicle. Which are FAMILIES. Which makes it a REAL PITY that buyers are MORONS and would NOT buy a STATION WAGON version of this, and instead go buy an obese CROSSOVER Highlander, which would have the SAME interior space (or less?) than a Camry Wagon, and costs much more.
  • Chiefmonkey Blander, less powerful, and more expensive than ever. What more could anyone want?
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  • SCE to AUX If you don't do the project, you don't get the money earmarked for it - pretty simple. But if Stellantis is waiting for demand to materialize, it means they've already decided to be followers. Tesla didn't wait for demand to happen when it built its first Gigafactory 10 years ago. They built it in anticipation of the Model 3 and Y high volume products instead of sitting around watching everyone else do nothing.
  • Bd2 TTAC's trolling of it's own readership continues. Soon they will post that video of them all rolling around naked in that Hyundai showroom exposing the real "TRUTH" about TTAC.