$16K was a lot to ask for of a car of this type, when you realize that in 2011 you could get into a US market Ford Fiesta for $13.2K. Do you take the iQ with limited rear seating and no real storage - not to mention Scion’s fixed pricing - or do you buy a Fiesta which had an okay-ish rear seat but with four doors and…

They’re all going to be boring. I have a kid and have still held onto my Corvette for going on eight years, so when I think about car shopping I’m always ‘mehhhhhhh.’

The Pontiac Fiero’s fuel door release is in the B pillar near where the top part of the seat belt mounts for the driver. It was placed there for the very short cable length to the fuel door (it’s completely flat and cannot be opened from the outside, likely for aesthetics). You might think “well why not just put it…

Sports games as a whole are going to really suffer from the looming takeover of digital content.

It may be worthwhile to point out that a reason Sony likely considered this is because in Japan they actually used a proprietary jewel case for many PS1 games. There was some precedence for a proprietary case for the PS2.

I’ll be there for the race. I typically make ~four Indycar races per season and that will be the last race of the year I go to. It’s always an exciting place for how small the place is.

Like others said, the difference in home buying is the amount lent is effectively based off the appraisal, which is ultimately controlled by the lender’s sending out their own appraisers. It’s different from car buying, where a lender is not likely to give you a loan above a vehicle’s market value. It’s a pretty shady…

5th Gear (this is 2ndgear looking at 5th gear): I’ve always wondered in the back of my mind how EVs are going to market to buyers that live in a lot of inner-city or locations that do not necessarily facilitate having a charging station or setup nearby. Think apartments, lofts, condos, etc. Most of those aren’t going…

Right on!! Imagine a Jalopnik writer writing an article about an automotive topic to come up in discourse that will not only affect 100% of American Jalopnik readers but also the entire American automotive buyer’s market regardless of whether someone is buying a vehicle as an ‘appliance’ or that they’re a hardcore…

I don’t even let people borrow my piece of shit daily driver. I sure as hell wouldn’t allow them to drive my fun car.

I have over a dozen race used ‘billboards’ (the term for team shirts that crew members wear), primarily from Indycar. One of my favorite is I have a shirt worn at Indy in 1995 by Bettenhausen crew when they qualified 33rd and beat Penske out to the race. I also have a shirt worn by Ganassi crew for Charlie Kimball’s…

A lot of people are going to be in for very rude awakenings when the Feds come down hard on all of those “LLCs” in Montana for tax evasion; it is a Federal offense...

I’ve been over there, and even more hilarious is I’m an olive complexion white guy that was with both a black and white girl. It’s more than an understatement to say that I had quite a few interesting looks, but I also had my kid with me, which lowers most anyone’s guard down even if foreign. Children carry no…

It’s a possibly terrible way to lump languages but an old business man I know that’s traveled most everywhere around Asia once told me something that after I thought about it real hard I realized was completely true: “English is the language of business.”

I went to a high school where a family won a state lottery and proceeded to blow it on cars, which made perfect sense. I remember the son used to come to school in what seemed like a different car every day (circa 2000); C5 Corvette, Mercedes G Wagon, Excursion (that was a pricey vehicle back then), and a circa…

One of the things that you may not have noticed when up close to the car is a reason that the interior is as cramped as it is with all the compartments is that Mercedes-Benz supplied a full set of fitted luggage to each owner. The two compartments in the lower door sills store two very large fitted bags - they’re also…

The one-way fee with mileage is what gets you. Back in ‘15 I had a friend move halfway across the country and I agreed to help drive a 26' U-Haul. He was trying to pay a moving company to move everything (he was a massive hoarder of comic fandom and the like, with a third of the truck taking that up alone.) but was…

There are a tremendous amount of homes in the upper eastern portion of the United States similar to that; homes that have existed for hundreds of years. Think of places such as New York, which has had buildings that stretch back from the time of American colonies in most their same build and orientation. I live in the…

It’s actually a bit more minute than that.

I got GamePro back in the 1990s; it was my go-to magazine, as I would get an issue periodically when I went to my local Blockbuster. Some years following Y2K when I no longer bought gaming magazines I simply recycled them. They were getting to be a huge hassle and the 60+ issues I had were getting difficult to retain.…